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Debi Campbell, writing from the Women's Federal Prison Camp in Victorville, California: This is a plea to help Free Debi. I am a first time non-violent drug offender, presently serving my 12th year of a 19 year 7 month sentence for my involvement in a drug conspiracy. I have made some poor life choices, but a twenty-year sentence is a crime in itself!! I need YOUR help to win my release...Yes, I made a mistake, I got involved with the wrong man, but serving another 7 years in prison serves No purpose. After nearly twelve years of incarceration, I long to resume my responsibility to my children as well as my status as a taxpayer, instead of being a recipient of this continued arbitrary waste of taxpayers money. It bears recalling that President Bush in his 2004 State of the Union Address, while discussing sentencing issues, called America "the land of second chance." That was a positive statement, considering reliance on the criminal justice system to reduce use, abuse, and the sale of illegal drugs has had little effect on the supply and demand of drugs in the United States. It has, however, led to sky-rocketing rates of incarceration of women. |
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Nationally, there are now more than eight times as many women incarcerated in state and federal prisons, and local jails as there were in 1980, increasing in number from 12,300 in 1980 to 184,271 by 2004 … The underlying circumstances contributing to the dramatic increase in women's incarceration for drug offenses, including patterns of women's drug use, barriers to seeking and obtaining treatment, the nature of women's involvement in the drug trade, and patterns of prosecution and sentencing of women for drug offenses, need to be thoroughly examined and addressed by researchers and policymakers. The continued mass incarceration of Americans is a travesty with a cost to future generations that will be immeasurable. Please help - contact your Senator or Representative and ask them to write a letter of support for my petition of clemency - under the U.S. Constitution, the President has the authority to commute, or reduce, a sentence imposed from a conviction of a federal offense. Also, please take the few minutes required to download, sign, and mail my signature petition to the U.S. Pardon Attorney. My family and I will be forever grateful for your kind consideration. Every voice does count! Thank you for taking the time to look through my website, and for writing your elected officials on my behalf. For my special friend, you know who you are, you are always in my prayers. God Bless You, |