That the innocent may be freed!

The first words in the mission statement of HUMANITY FOR PRISONERS ARE: Seeking rightful resolutions to wrongful convictions...

This week, we'll be rolling up our sleeves to do just that!

Tomorrow, Wednesday, a legal team from the Toronto-based ASSOCIATION IN DEFENCE (Canadian sp.) OF THE WRONGLY CONVICTED will be in Detroit for a strategy session regarding Ray Gray. Gray is now 56, and has served 35 years in prison. This fine group of legal experts believes he is innocent. HFP is proud to have been invited to participate in that conference. Gray is a fine artist, and a number of his paintings were on display for our benefit art exhibit a couple years ago.

On Thursday, my car will head south again. I will be traveling to Jackson to testify at a public hearing, scheduled by the Michigan Parole Board, for Ron Ross. Ron, now 42, was convicted of a safe cracking and has been in prison for nine years. He is a Master Gardener, and has used his gifts to develop a prison garden program that has distributed fresh vegetables to hundreds of disadvantaged people in the Upper Peninsula over the years! He has consistently maintained his innocence, and is now crippled because of improper medical care while in prison.

In your own way, remember us as we travel more than 450 miles in the next two days in an 8 year old car with 201,000 miles and a soft tire; and especially as we seek God's guidance to say the right words and make the right moves in our imperfect effort to give new life to two fine human beings. It is our position that they have been wronged by an imperfect system.

This is the work that we do in the trenches: Work that we are called to do, but work that limits the amount of time we can spend trying to make up our financial deficit.

Thank you for being our partners in this amazing, exciting, on-going adventure!

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