Jay

Back when I was on probation, my probation officer went with me when I applied for a job to make sure I was treated fairly and I got every job I applied for while on probation. With her standing up for me, that made all the differences because she would tell the manager that I would not give them any grief and if I did, she would violate me and send me back to prison.

On a side note, there is a verse in the bible that says, “Where one door closes, another one opens”. Basically, never give up or quit trying. That goes for F.A.C and all of us, we have to believe we will eventually get a victory. A mountain is hard to climb but once you make it to the top, you have success.

I want to stay on topic, so with that said I read and get the frame of mind that it’s about fear. Putting fear into people to gain ground for figures to reach a good place in their careers. I have been home for almost two years and I went to a job interview today and talk to a guy. He wanted to hire me told me I am just what he needed look forward to have me on board. No paperwork was filled out he had no info on me,but my name on my caller id from calling him. Home for one hour and I got a text say sorry I didn’t know about your recent arrest, recently meaning 16 years ago. He told me I don’t think you will work out here.
He had my name from caller id and looked me up of corse I would have told my background when I filled the app out. It’s been years since I looked at myself on line and what it informs and I was shocked. I’m not sure if I can put my charges on here but they are not violent but what they label me as I really don’t blame the guy he should have a open mind but reading the words they label me as is not me at all. They make it sound the worst they can to fear people. I own up to my actions but my label isn’t my actions

Thanks Bob. Please take the suggestion and forward the article to your local politicians and five of your local news stations. Invite them to contact media@floridaactioncommittee.org if they would like a comment or access to any of the citations referenced in the weekly update (though many are hyperlinked).
If we can get just 50 out of our 3000 members to take the half hour to send out some emails, there’s a good chance we’ll get some attention. If nobody does that, we’re just preaching to the choir.

How can someone who murdered someone become a sheriff? And secondly, if he gets appointed, good God imagine the power he has to harm others with a free pass as Sheriff. We all think that sheriffs back in the 1950s were scary and bad, but there are a lot of small towns and counties, especially in the Florida panhandle where the prisons are, where law enforcement rule with an iron fist and get away with it.

Odd that is we murdered someone, we would go to prison or get the death penalty, but they either justify it by saying they were defended themselves, or the bury the person in the woods and call it a cold case with no leads of their whereabouts.

On a final note, on the second prison they moved me to, I almost lost my life due to four corrections officers who knew my charges and came in to beat me. God intervened and a call came out on their radios just as they were entering my cell that a riot was happening in the yard. After they left, the Chaplin came by to check on me, and I begged him to call my parents, and he did and they called the warden and got me transferred to another facility.
If they had killed me, all of them would have made up a lie that I attacked them or something and since I would have been dead, no other proof. LOTS of that going on in the panhandle prisons and they coordinate with the Sheriffs to make sure everyone is on the same page.