Talked to my mom and dad on a 3-way call tonight. (Someone in jail let me use their phone card.)On Thursday, September 10, there was an article about my blog in a new St. Pete Times teen newspaper [called tb-two] that goes to 75,000 high school students in Tampa Bay. A picture of me was on the cover too. I haven't seen the article yet, but I hope it helps some kids keep away from drugs and out of jail.
This article was a totally separate article from the one that appeared in the regular Sunday St. Pete Times paper on September 6.
I told my parents that I heard rumors in jail that they were changing the laws so that only 65% of a sentence could be served, instead of 85%.
I asked my friend Brittni to visit me at the jail on Tuesday. Brittni has been writing me tons of letters and it helps so much that she is there for me. (My girlfriend Kahli is long gone. I've heard that she now refers to me as "my ex-boyfriend in jail".)
My mom reads me the emails that I get at teeninjail@yahoo.com. I got a lot of emails after that article came out in tb-two. Other kids want to write to me in prison too, and I'd really like that. I can't tell you how much it means to me to know that people are thinking about me and praying for me. I can get letters at the reception center when I know my DC #. My mom will post the address and the DC # once she knows it.
I also asked my mom and dad to visit me on Wednesday. It might take about a week for me to be sent to the Central Florida Reception Center in Orlando. Hopefully I'll get to see my family before I'm sent to the reception center and I'm not sent there right away after court.
I have court again tomorrow morning. I want to ask the judge if I will get time served taken off the 24 months sentence. Hopefully I will. Then I would only serve 13 months in prison. I could also get 94 additional days taken off my sentence for good behavior.
Someone sent my mom a really good web site called Prison Talk. It has forums where people post all kinds of information on all of the prisons.
Stay tuned for what happens in court tomorrow...
Blogger's note: Found out online (after the phone call to Ted) that there is a bill in Congress called "hr 1475", but it hasn't passed yet. This is the bill that supports reducing time served in a sentence to 65%. The main supporter of the bill, Representative Charles Rangel, is being investigated for false or non-reporting of income - up to half a million dollars in unreported income. So he'll be busy defending himself and will want to distance himself from criminal justice reform.
Hey ted, you probably dont remember me. but back about 4 years, we met on a cruise to Jamaica and Mexico. We both went to that club HAL deal, and hung out just about every day.
ReplyDeletei walked into my english class today, and i see on my desk a TB two magazine with a familiar face on it. and it was the one dude i hung out with on the cruise every day.
i have to say that this whole deal is really inspiring to me, and even though you probably dont remember me, i definitely remember you, and hope everything works out for you.
take care man,
JT