Once, I was flown across America on a prison transport plane that landed in California. We were then driven to a federal pen in Lompac. Why I was taken there, I do not know. I can only believe it was another way for the then prosecutor in my case to mess with me. I was supposed to be headed to Kansas. The ‘messing” with me went on for years, a living hell, I took it.

While I was there, I looked out the barred window at the rolling hills; feeling the constant wind coming through the bars.

As I sit in my cell today in central Florida looking out the window, I can only imagine the flames rolling across those hills heading for that prison.

I can only imagine the massive suffering due to the fires in California recently. I sit here and wonder, what happened to the federal inmates caught in the line of those fires. There was nothing on the news about them. I did see that animals were moved.

I wonder how many 1st time non-violent offenders are warehoused in California that could be released. I wonder this because of the cost. It cost $40,000 a year plus to house inmates in the federal system; just think of how that money would help those affected by these fires.

The government has spent well over a MILLION dollars keeping me caged these past 25 years. Money that could have sent many young people to school, vets medical cost, senior housing etc etc etc…

Anyways, I can only hope and pray that they don’t fly me out there again. For if they do, I will pray for rain, as I have for those there now.

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