This letter was written by a person incarcerated at Valley State.
To whom it may concern,
I am currently serving a life without parole sentence. Now dealing with that is extremely difficult. I have been in prison for 17 years for murders I did not commit.
I am African American as well. I actually caught the virus back in September. I thought that I was going to die!
The prison I’m at moved me to a quarantine building with other inmates who got the virus as well. My greatest fear was I wasn’t going to say good-bye to my fiancé and my family.
While I was in quarantine, all the prison did was take our vitals, that’s it! Then after two weeks of quarantine, they moved me back in a building that keeps getting positive results from other inmates.
Then we can’t even call our loved ones for two weeks. It gets frustrating at times. And as far as no visits, I understand and we have video visits now, but I can’t wait to get our visits back.
I am going to be getting married as soon as this is over, or when they start allowing visits again. Well, I hope this letter helps in some way. Thank you and God bless.
