PRISONER EXPRESS

Where should I start? I may never get paroled due to being a California prisoner! I was sentenced to 17years to life in 1989 and was told I would have a chance to parole. Now as I go before the parole board I am told I will never get out without confesssion to the crime to which I was found guilty! It does not matter that the GSR (proves you fired a gun) showed up negative on myself and they did not prov the gun used was the right gun or the eyewitness that was proven to be lying six different times and the other person to do the crime no longer matters., for I was found guilty and that's all that matters. I have not been clean of doing things I should not in prison, but when you live where it's possible to lose your life over just looking at someone wrong, you must do what you must, jump through all the hoops just to be given a parole date. Then some governor who wants to be the next president says no you can't parole. The system is made not to let us out, but make money off the tax-payer. In California, it's all about the money and nothing else. Inmates who have been in prison for over 15 years straight are proven not to come back as much! Yes some still do but most do not, and murder is the lowest of all to them all. We used to be given a fair parole hearing not so anymore. It's been but dry.

"do what we say and we will think about letting you out and no, we at the board don't care is you were guilty or not!' We talk to the board members for 15 minutes and they tell us how we don't meet the requirements. When you ask them how do I do meet the requirements when the prison system doesn't give them to us? They respond that's your problem not ours. They used to have them now they don't, due to staff pay takes up 80% of the budget, but they claim it's due to us in here. Most of the time it is hard to do right when you have nothing to look forward to. At parole they judge you by the file and not the person sitting in front of them! They don't care, they get there pay check and do what the governor wants them to do. To give you an example of how bad it is, in the case Rosengrants he was given a parole date, but the governor revoked his parole date. I agree this case was not a good case to be let out of prison, but it shows the court and laws do not matter any more for us in prison. All anyone cares about is keeping us locked-up no matter if you showed and proved you did not do the crime! But I keep going forward with the hope of parole and changing my ways to understand myself and live life right. It's all there is, the hope of parole.