Richard Brown

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Mr. Richard Brown is currently located at CSP-Solano in Northern California, serving a sentence of (LWOP) Life Without the Possibility of Parole. He is a First Time Offender and has been incarcerated for approximately 16 years.

Bio

Mr. Brown is currently 43-years of age. He was born in Stockton, California, where his offense occurred at the young age of 27-years old. He still maintains strong love and support from his family and friends. During the course of his prison life he has maintained on the course of positivity and productivity in the course of transformation for improvement for himself and the community in society.

Rehabilitative Accomplishments and Achievements

a) Graduated from high school and retained a g.e.d.
b) Completed alternatives to violence project program
c) Current member & participant in LWOP-group, support group, and writing group
d) Current mentor for the lwop lifeline youth offender program
e) Completed facilitators training program
f) Completed 12-week workshop via M.A.N.U.P. Program
g) Completed Conductors Training for M.A.N.U.P. Program
h) Completed Victims Awareness Program
i) Completed Self-Help Groups of the following: Anger Management, Criminal Addictive Thinking, etc.
j) Lead Conductor for M.A.N.U.P. Program, promoting manhood.

Redemption

Mr. Brown expresses his deepest remorse for all the pain he has caused to anyone and everyone. He is now a New, Transformed, an Improved person. He no longer retains the immature mentality he once had. He seeks redemption with the above accomplishments and achievements to his credit and requests a “Second Chance” to be a Free Man, and a positive influence within our society.

Contact Information

Mr. Richard Brown, T-17058
CSP-Solano A4-104L
P.O. Box 4000,
Vacaville, Ca. 95696-4000

E-Mail address: Him2mt@aol.com

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SB 1437 is Constitutional: Xavier Beccera’s Brief

Today, the Attorney General broke with the DAs and the CDAA and filed a Brief in 2 appelate courts stating that SB 1437 is constitutional.

Here is the Brief, in Case No. D075790:

Attorney General’s Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Real Parties in Interest (PDF)

Youth Offender Parole Hearings for LWOP – and CHCF has a New LWOP Group!

CA LWOP Group Announcement
Please advise ALL your loved ones, who were over age 18 when their offense occurred, that the First District Court of Appeal, Division Four, GRANTED defendants Edwards and Chioma (of Alameda County) relief on their argument that Penal Code Sec. 3051, subd.(h) was being administered (by CDCR and courts) in violation of the Equal Protect Clause of California Constitution!

What that means in plain language is: Youth Offender Parole Hearings, even for LWOPS, must be performed for ALL criminal defendants – especially between 19 and 25 yrs. When their offense occurred – cannot be denied Franklin Hearings nor suitability parole hearings after serving twenty-five years of incarceration! We are certain that the Attorney General has or, will file and appeal but, because this case was settled on Equal Protection Principles, it is highly unlikely the Justices of the State Supreme Court will undue this ruling. See link provided herewith for the actual case. Spread the word about this significant court ruling.

https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2019/a147103.html

ANNOUNCING CA LWOP CHCF STOCKTON
(California Health Care Facility)

The nearly one hundred LWOPS housed at California Health Care Facility Stockton, are proud to announce, that on Thursday June 6, 2019 we held our initial LWOP meeting with a nearly full classroom on Facility E. Many more LWOPS have subscribed/petitioned for attendance however, our class sizes are limited. Yet, with the support of our outside sponsors, we will make every effort to keep all LWOP inmates, here at CHCF informed about whatever news and/or events effecting CA LWOPS.

CHCF LWOP would also like the help of the entire CA LWOP Group in thanking (A) Warden Aldridge, CRM K. Petersen, our group Sponsor J. Flores and the many unnamed administrators of CHCF who made this amazing opportunity possible. They all deserve our collective applause.

Kenneth L. Moore C16557
CHCF LWOP Facilitator

Spoon Jackson on KALW’s Crosscurrents Uncuffed interviews commuted LWOP-er Hung Ly

Spoon Jackson and Hung Ly both worked for the Solano Visions Newsletter, and both were sentenced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole (LWOP).

Recently, Hung Ly, a member of the Lifers With Optimistic Progress, received a commutation for his sentence. Spoon Jackson, who was locked up in 1977, is still waiting for his commutation, and he interviews Hung Ly about the process of waiting for politicians to show mercy, about being older in prisons where he has to be housed in dorms, hearing all the stories on how others are getting released to the streets again, where he is still waiting for the politicians to decide whether he is reformed, even though the family of the victim has long since forgiven him…

Listen here to this story by Spoon and Hung about LWOP

Listen to Spoon Jackson’s poem At night I fly…

Screenshot from Uncuffed Poetry, by Spoon Jackson, on the KALW website (“Uncuffed” producers Damon Cooke (left), Steve Drown (middle), and Spoon Jackson (right) ).

 

Sentencing Project features abolish-LWOP-initiatives in its Newsletter

The Sentencing Project featured the Drop-LWOP Campaign in California as one of the initiatives to ge involved in, in its latest State Advocacy Newsletter.

In this Newsletter the Sentencing Project also features the New York-based RAPP-Campaign (Release Aging People from Prison Campaign) and the Parole Preparation Project, which organized a Parole Justice Advocacy Day in support of legislative priorities to allow parole for all people aged 55 and older who have served 15 consecutive years in prison.

You can also download, read and share the April-published Paper:

The Next Step: Ending Excessive Punishment for Violent Crimes

Released: April 02, 2019

By: Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Ph.D.:

“The Next Step highlights 15 reforms in 19 states implemented over the past two decades that have produced more effective, fiscally sound, and humane policies for people convicted of violent crimes.”

 

SB1437’s 2019 Accomplice Liability for Murder – Report by Judge J. Richard Couzens

SB 1437’s 2019 Accomplice Liability, detailed report by (retired) Superior Court Judge Couzens. Read it if you plan to file an SB1437 petition. Thank you CA LWOP sponsors for making it available.

Click here or on the intro-text to open the 41-page Report.

 

Changed Lives (Joe Bell)

Changed Lives

Joe Bell is in the middle

At 50 years of age and 23.5 years of incarceration, my sentence of Life Without the Possibility of Parole was commuted to 25 to Life on Christmas Eve 2018 along with nine other LWOPS here at CSP Solano Level II. I am still prayerful and hopeful for the other 5,200 LWOPS who were given this living death sentence of Life Without the Possibility of Parole. It has always haunted me and dwelt in the back of my mind, asking myself, ‘this slow death is torture, why didn’t they just give me the death penalty if they feel my conviction of murder robbery was deserving of death.’

I would like to first contribute and thank my praying Grandma for not giving up on the possibility of a merciful Governor. Her prayer in a letter to me 13 years ago was that a Governor would make an opportunity for her grandson to come home. May she rest in peace, as she passed away 10 years ago.

I have 12 write ups, 10 from 1998 to 2006. I have two from 2008 – 2014. I think the Senior Parole Agent and the Governor recognized my turn around starting in 2014 with self help groups and facilitating them. They said “I earned” a sentence commutation because I started the E.D.G.E. program, diversion for at-risk youth and continued my education (AA degree and certified in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

I want to thank my wife Gloria, Geri Silva, Cris Moore, Joanne Scheer and all the advocates of justice reform, including us in blue inside California prisons writing letters to show the human side of us. I also want to thank Annabelle who is instrumental in putting our pictures, stories and accomplishments on the California LWOP website. I think it takes all of these things to bring about change.

LWOPS please keep writing, creating and showing your redeemable qualities, and for those who believe in God, pray, have faith and He will show you your purpose.

Peace and Blessings,

Joseph Bell Jr.