Coping from a cell. The COVID-19 pandemic is altering the lives, in some form at least, of everyone on earth. It is unexpected, unpredictable, and so far unrelenting. A lot of recent media reports and advertisements on television speak of anxieties and mental health issues arising in people from the stress of it all. The […]
Living during COVID-19…Under my current circumstances being incarcerated I’d always figured that my sentence entailed a little hardship. I never imagined that the possibility of losing my life was actually up for discussion and up until now I always felt a level of security whether it was up to me protecting myself or up to […]
Dear whom it may concern, I am concerned about my safety and wellbeing during this corona virus. I am not 6 feet from my celly during lock downs. The CO’s can bring it in anytime. I am worried about my family. I just lost one of my own during this time. I would like to […]
To anyone who will understand! Each day my mind fills with the unknown and I think and wonder will I come out of this prison alive? My feelings vary day to day because of the grim reality of my situation of being sentence to over 13 years for allegedly biting someone gives me a sense […]
COVID and State Farm (The Prison not the Insurance Company) Here at State Farm Enterprise Unit during this COVID-19 pandemic, we have been locked down more than usual. Early on when someone complained that they were not feeling well that person and his cellie were put in the hole and everyone else was locked into […]
Dear sirs and/or madams My name is Robin Lovitt-Bay and I’m a man who’s been fighting my wrongful conviction for over 22 years. I’m locked away because of an extraordinary combination of circumstances, a misleading presentation of forensic evidence and destruction of exculpatory evidence by state across, a case where no one will apply the […]
I am an army veteran who has trained in several different countries an who has spent the last 25 years in this Virginia prison. After working my way off of being at Sussex I for 8 years here at State Farm I thought that this would be a place where I could work, make a […]
To Whom it may concern: I would like to briefly express my concern about the COVID-19 virus and the dangers of being in the prison system which was not prepared to deal with it. I am 64 1/2 years old and have been incarcerated for 23 1/2 years for an alleged robbery. I have been […]
To whom it may concern, I am an inmate at State Farm Enterprise Unit. My name is Keith A. Self. I am 68 years old and I have a number of health issues, which at this time, especially, is causing a great deal of stress. On top of which I have not been able to […]
My name is Sheldon Swilling and I’m currently serving a sentence at “Powhatan” State Farm Enterprise Unit, and I’m writing this letter with great concern. All D.O.C. facilities are doing what they can to prevent the spread of the COVID-19, but inmates are still getting infected, and some have even lost their lives. The thought […]