Derricks Prison Blog

Cry for freedom. I'm innocent and been here 26 years. Is that long enough?

My journey after denial of my Appeal with help of my children and friends.

I got tired of seeing inmates DIE OF AIDS complications or taking the disease home.

It's always painful dealing with death. Since my 1995 incarceration almost 60% of the people I know are dead.

Love is that which is without condition, without limitation and without need.

My worst natural disaster behind bars was hurricane Katrina.

The Corona virus has everyone on the edge.

Working on getting more medical records and another Affidavit to bolster my innocence.

I always prided myself on 'holding the pain in' but when aunt Dorothy and uncle John-Ale died, I was in my time of real dispair.

In 1995 inmates who were snitches got stitches, In 2020 snitches get love.