Please remember the forgotten!

I WANT TO TELL YOU A SHORT STORY.

At a recent speaking engagement, I was confronted by a distraught mother. Her 16-year-old son, mentally challenged, was serving time in an adult facility of the Michigan prison system!

Many of you are parents and grandparents, and you and I would immediately recognize that prison is no place for the mentally ill! As our investigation expanded, we discovered more than half-a-dozen kids, some sentenced to prison as young as the age of 13.

-At least one had been raped!
-Most if not all were not getting proper medication!
-Some had been brutalized by prisoners and guards!
-One walked in raw sewage for a weekend because prison toilets backed up!

HFP rolled up our sleeves, and progress is being made. Perhaps that’s why Jeff Gerritt of the Detroit Free Press said of our organization,…the world is held together by the love of a very few people.

The average person can’t do much to offer humanity to prisoners. But HFP can!

At the end of the year, I ask you to consider a gift of

$41 for a roll of stamps to send Christmas cards to 100 prisoners
$82 for two rolls of stamps, so that we can reach 200 prisoners
$100 to help pay for Christmas cards
$150 to fund a visit to a prisoner
$200 to cover the cost of holiday greeting cards
$1,000 to bolster our ailing budget
$5,000 to enable us to finish the year in the black!

You may donate instantly on-line: www.aboutinnocent.org! Or, you may send in your gift by mail.

We won’t be sending you a holiday greeting card, as much as we would like to. The money is being used for prisoner cards. Blessings and thanks to you in this meaningful holiday season!

Doug Tjapkes, President
HUMANITY FOR PRISONERS
20 W. Muskegon Avenue
Muskegon, MI 49440

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