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Post by nella on Oct 4, 2009 12:23:30 GMT -5
Hi, I'm new and not new here. Years ago, in another life I was very much interested in the CP and writing to inmates, but my own life wasn't very stable and I had a hard time keeping a correspondence. One of my penpal was actually executed right after I received my first letter from him, and my other correspondence with a lifer (ex DR inmate) stopped with no reason. At that time, I spent awhile on a forum that sadly came to an end because member kept fighting. Now my life has changed a lot, I have a steady job and I'm a proud legal aid volunteer helping refugees settling down in France and fighting the system. I feel now that I'm matured enough to start a new correspondence. But I know that I need the back up - other people who have DR penpals, because I can't be on my own doing that. It's the same with the NGO I'm working at, I'm doing great there because we're all helping each others. I think I've found the penpal I want to write, though I wasn't able to find a penpal request from him. I watched a documentary about the US legal system and that's how I got to know about him. He's in DR in Nevada. So I was wondering if I might write to me, even though he's never requested a penpal ? (I've visited a few websites before and didn't find a request). I'm new here and kind of sad to find out that this forum is no longer active as it used to be, and that the list of the penpals requests is completely out dated. So I'd be really glad to hear from you guys ! I'd be so happy to share my correspondence. I just spend the last two hours reading your posts, hope someone reads mine
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Post by pumpkinpie on Oct 4, 2009 20:25:18 GMT -5
Hi, I'm new and not new here. Years ago, in another life I was very much interested in the CP and writing to inmates, but my own life wasn't very stable and I had a hard time keeping a correspondence. One of my penpal was actually executed right after I received my first letter from him, and my other correspondence with a lifer (ex DR inmate) stopped with no reason. At that time, I spent awhile on a forum that sadly came to an end because member kept fighting. Now my life has changed a lot, I have a steady job and I'm a proud legal aid volunteer helping refugees settling down in France and fighting the system. I feel now that I'm matured enough to start a new correspondence. But I know that I need the back up - other people who have DR penpals, because I can't be on my own doing that. It's the same with the NGO I'm working at, I'm doing great there because we're all helping each others. I think I've found the penpal I want to write, though I wasn't able to find a penpal request from him. I watched a documentary about the US legal system and that's how I got to know about him. He's in DR in Nevada. So I was wondering if I might write to me, even though he's never requested a penpal ? (I've visited a few websites before and didn't find a request). I'm new here and kind of sad to find out that this forum is no longer active as it used to be, and that the list of the penpals requests is completely out dated. So I'd be really glad to hear from you guys ! I'd be so happy to share my correspondence. I just spend the last two hours reading your posts, hope someone reads mine Hi Nella, welcome, and thanks for coming back! It is people like you, who do keep a forum like this alive! I hope, that regardless of where your next correspondence takes you, that you will still stay a member here at ccadp, with us! I've had 1 or 2 correspondences with inmates that did not last at all, so I did not try a 3rd time, and spend my time busy with other things, and also remain anti-death penalty. I visit this site www.deathpenaltyinfo.org at least a couple times a week, just to keep up with the latest that's going on in the death penalty news. Although my life has changed, since 2006, when I originally joined here on a whim just to post something back to someone in the Scott Peterson section, which then lead me to write to him, then write to another inmate, then end up writing to no inmates at all, and moving on to a position in life where I'm just against the death penalty, but don't want to be involved on a personal level with any inmates. So, life changes for us all, Nella! Even though this site does get dead for days on end at times, we do have a few consistent members who return and post from time to time, and anything big that happens as far as the death penalty goes, or the anti-death penalty movement goes- I try to get it on here. Please take care, and keep us posted.
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Post by nella on Oct 5, 2009 6:29:16 GMT -5
Thank you ;-) Yes, our own lives can be difficult sometimes, so it's hard to keep in touch with inmates. I'm glad to have a reply, I've read so many posts and that was very interesting - it's still sad that too many members have left. Because I really need to talk to penpals. Also, I was wondering - when I looked at the posts, I recognized many names (of inmates) that I'd seen a few years back, but then I thought : it sounds like everybody was writing to the same few inmates ? So, have you ever tried to figure that out ? I hope that the people who posted here 2 or 3 years ago have kept on writing, because I didn't and still feel bad. I'm surprised to find out, it's the same for you So you think, I can write to him even though he never posted an ad ? take care
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Post by pumpkinpie on Oct 5, 2009 8:47:21 GMT -5
Thank you ;-) Yes, our own lives can be difficult sometimes, so it's hard to keep in touch with inmates. I'm glad to have a reply, I've read so many posts and that was very interesting - it's still sad that too many members have left. Because I really need to talk to penpals. Also, I was wondering - when I looked at the posts, I recognized many names (of inmates) that I'd seen a few years back, but then I thought : it sounds like everybody was writing to the same few inmates ? So, have you ever tried to figure that out ? I hope that the people who posted here 2 or 3 years ago have kept on writing, because I didn't and still feel bad. I'm surprised to find out, it's the same for you So you think, I can write to him even though he never posted an ad ? take care Hi Nella, Well for me, the 2 inmates I did correspond with at 2 different times just stopped writing me, and I was the one to write them last. One of them was Scott Peterson, and he's so notorious, and everything, but he would still reply at times, then he stopped replying, cold turkey, so I stopped writing him. This was awhile ago. And the other person was someone who used to be a death row inmate but was re-sentenced to life. Her name is Pam Perrilo and she is serving a life sentence in Texas. At the beginning of our correspondence, she seemed eager to have a new pen-pal, then suddenly, she stopped writing. Of cource that left me worried, so I called the prison to ask if she had stamps, and they said she did. I wrote her again and told I was worried and had even called the prison. She wrote back. I then sent her a Christmas card, because it was around that time, a couple years ago. I never heard from her again. Of cource I never bothered to write her again either. Odd because I thought these people were suppose to be so needy of friendship, and so appreciative of it. Each situation is different I suppose, and I'm much too busy to experiment with writing this person and that person, to see which friendship actually might work out. Neither of the two I previously tried lasted, so... Anyway, I don't see why you can't write to someone, even if they don't have an ad. As long as you have his address. It may just brighten up his day. I once tried writing to the Green River Killer, who did not have an ad, after reading a book about the case, but never got a response. You never know...
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Post by nella on Oct 5, 2009 9:21:17 GMT -5
I also wrote to a former DR (he was under 18 when he was arrested so when the law changed, he became a lifer). He was very nice and wrote long letters, but at that time of my life, I wasn't doing well and one day I just couldn't reply, plus I found his letters perturbing, well I guess that was just me. I still feel guilty but I know he has several penpals and a fiancé, so I know he's not on his own.
My other attempt was a guy I saw after a doc on TV, I wrote him and he replied, he semed very nice - I replied and found out he had been executed in between. He asked for it.
I wrote to penpals, not on DR but they were released and that was it.
I'm surprised about you, maybe your penpal wasn't doing well and that's why she stopped writing, sometimes you really want to be on your own. I felt that way two or three years ago.
So you wrote to Scott ? His case made the news in France too, though he wasn't portrayed as innocent but as a cold bloody killer. In France, there's no DP and last year it became a Constitutional law (it was a simple law before) and the Europe Constitution forbids it too - so the only time we talk about executions, it's about the ones in the US or in China, Iran.
Last year, they made that TV movie telling how that famous Lawyer, Badinter fought for the life of his clients back in the 70's and fought the DP. He couldn't save his first clients but succeeded with a child killer. He's very famous and highly respected.
Okay, I'm going to write that letter, who knows ? I'll keep you informed if he does reply. I've looked at other DP penpals ads but he's the only one, that gave me the willingness to write again. His childhood was so sh*tty that it's hard to believe kids can be brought up this way in the US nowadays.
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Post by pumpkinpie on Oct 5, 2009 9:50:42 GMT -5
I also wrote to a former DR (he was under 18 when he was arrested so when the law changed, he became a lifer). He was very nice and wrote long letters, but at that time of my life, I wasn't doing well and one day I just couldn't reply, plus I found his letters perturbing, well I guess that was just me. I still feel guilty but I know he has several penpals and a fiancé, so I know he's not on his own. Okay, I'm going to write that letter, who knows ? I'll keep you informed if he does reply. I've looked at other DP penpals ads but he's the only one, that gave me the willingness to write again. His childhood was so sh*tty that it's hard to believe kids can be brought up this way in the US nowadays. I wouldn't feel guilty. You have to put your life first and make sure you are ok too! I can relate to what your saying there. Things happen... Have fun writing your letter, and don't be a stranger here!
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