The Humanization Blog

Rydell Pellaway – COVID-19

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 […]

Kevin Lydon – COVID-19

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 […]

Robin Lovitt-Bay – COVID-19

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 […]

E. Reid – COVID-19

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 […]

Ronald Miles – COVID-19

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 […]

Keith Self – COVID-19

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 […]

Sheldon Swilling – COVID-19

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 […]

Terrence Coley – COVID-19

When I sat and contemplated how I  would find the words for such a letter it came to me that the words would find me. I was convicted of multiple felonies such as robberies, abductions, and firearms charges. On paper it looks as if I was a menace to society but in truth it was […]

Jeffrey Chaney – COVID-19

When I was in school I learned about events like the Black Plague in history class. I never thought that such an event would happen in my life time. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic. It now dictates just about every aspect of life and pretty much all that is talked about on the news these […]

Harry “Justice” Traynham – COVID-19

A friend of mine pulled me aside and told me that his sister just died from the coronavirus and now his mom is fighting the virus. As he explained this to me his eyes began to water, regretfully the only comfort I could offer was just to listen. He eventually pulled himself together and assured […]