Perhaps tomorrow will be a better day!
I was still coming down from a "high" after viewing the first reading of a stage play that is being written about the late Maurice Carter and me. Then I returned to the office of Humanity for Prisoners this morning.
A prisoner who suffers from epileptic seizures informed me that prison officials had taken away his helmet!
I learned that a professional musician whom I sat with in a successful parole interview died at the young age of 44 because, I believe, his 7 year stint in prison messed with his mind!
The mother of a 16 year old mentally challenged prisoner informed me that a sewer had backed up, shoes and socks of all prisoners in that unit were soaked with raw sewage for more than a day, the water had to be turned off, and prison officials informed his parents that this issue did not have high priority!
A heroine in the Maurice Carter story, a single mom who spent the last year in jail, informed us by email that she doesn't know how she's going to pay the water bill, and if the water gets cut off her house is no good!
A prisoner with only one leg, and who suffers from pressure ulcers unless he sleeps on an air mattress, informed us that the mattress popped, he's in a different facility now, and they won't give him another one!
We learned that a benefactor was unable to help pay church expenses for our recent WE CARE concert, and so now it is up to HFP to pony up the $225.00 for engineering and janitorial services!
And a friend who just returned from a prison visit told us how worried she is about a wonderful person, incarcerated in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, because of a sharp downturn in prison morale that has left this inmate visibly stressed.
As Maurice Carter repeatedly advised me: "We're going to have to leave these things in God's hands!"
Your continued support is more critically needed than ever before.
Doug Tjapkes
HUMANITY FOR PRISONERS
20 W. Muskegon Avenue
Muskegon, MI 49440
A prisoner who suffers from epileptic seizures informed me that prison officials had taken away his helmet!
I learned that a professional musician whom I sat with in a successful parole interview died at the young age of 44 because, I believe, his 7 year stint in prison messed with his mind!
The mother of a 16 year old mentally challenged prisoner informed me that a sewer had backed up, shoes and socks of all prisoners in that unit were soaked with raw sewage for more than a day, the water had to be turned off, and prison officials informed his parents that this issue did not have high priority!
A heroine in the Maurice Carter story, a single mom who spent the last year in jail, informed us by email that she doesn't know how she's going to pay the water bill, and if the water gets cut off her house is no good!
A prisoner with only one leg, and who suffers from pressure ulcers unless he sleeps on an air mattress, informed us that the mattress popped, he's in a different facility now, and they won't give him another one!
We learned that a benefactor was unable to help pay church expenses for our recent WE CARE concert, and so now it is up to HFP to pony up the $225.00 for engineering and janitorial services!
And a friend who just returned from a prison visit told us how worried she is about a wonderful person, incarcerated in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, because of a sharp downturn in prison morale that has left this inmate visibly stressed.
As Maurice Carter repeatedly advised me: "We're going to have to leave these things in God's hands!"
Your continued support is more critically needed than ever before.
Doug Tjapkes
HUMANITY FOR PRISONERS
20 W. Muskegon Avenue
Muskegon, MI 49440
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