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Dear Editor
I have been in prison for almost 30 years; this year in July, in fact, it will be exactly thirty. I can’t get any help with my case. I’ve written to Black Lives Matter, the Black Panthers, and several Black organizations wondering why Rev. Jessie Jackson, the Rev Al Sharpton or anyone for that matter won’t assist me.
I’m alone and fear for my life.
My mother, Debra A. Neely died of HIV in 2005. My grandmother is deceased. My dad died in 2020. My aunt Rosalind is in the hospital suffering from cancer. I met a white lady from London England and she did everything she could to help me, yet she parted ways in 2017. All my cousins and my sisters whom I would never abandon, have abandoned me and have even turned their backs on me.
We get free phone calls, but nobody accepts my calls.
I’m afraid because of the Nepotism and racism that exists in this prison system here in Angola. I’ve written to twenty-two people and tried to request help and hope that they would help me to get my D.A. file so I can prove that I also was convicted with a ten-two, non-unanimous jury verdict. I have reason to believe that the prison system here at Angola is confiscating my mail.
I filed a motion to the 19th Judicial District on November 4, 2021, because my multi-bill sentence is illegal, but I have not received confirmation that the Clerk of Court has received it.
I have a 126-year sentence for robbing an individual for a pair of Air Jordans in 1992. There were inmates here who killed five or six people, even their own mothers, and now they are free, but not me.
I’m so afraid that I am actually hiding the whole truth concerning this evil corrupt place because I didn’t want them to come and murder me like they’ve done to so many other inmates who only spoke the truth.
I’m from Baton Rouge, but I have been completely inspired and encouraged by the articles in the Free Press by Dr. Jacquelyn Simmon and the beautiful queen Ms. Lisa Wilmore.
I’ve been in the belly of the beast for 30 years with tears in my eyes. I am in fear of my life.
Charles J. Neeley
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Angola, La.
