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SUMMARY:Crimson Letters: Voice from Death Row\, Tessie Castillo with special guest Sister Helen Prejean\, and co-author Lyle May
DESCRIPTION:Join us in a critical four-part conversation on criminal justice and death penalty reform\, racial and socio-economic inequality\, and quite simply\, the human dignity that each of us deserves. \nEach of Tessie’s four co-authors  and a special guest will join us for a live call-in four successive events. \nHow to Watch\nVisit zoom.us\nMeeting ID: 854 7826 3169\nPassword: 3367631919\n\n \nJUNE 11\nTopic:  Why is it so hard to hold criminal justice actors accountable?\nDiscussion: It seems like criminal justice actors (law enforcement\, prosecutors\, defense attorneys\, judges) often aren’t held to the same standards of accountability as ordinary citizens. Are they really operating on different rules? In this discussion we will explain how some policies and loopholes in the criminal justice system protect its actors from being held to the same standards of justice that they implement. We will also discuss what ordinary citizens can do to fight back against these protections and increase accountability within the criminal justice system.\nSpecial Guest: Sister Helen Prejean\, longtime advocate for death penalty and criminal justice form\, and champion and friend of death row inmates + co-author Lyle May \n  \nAbout Crimson Letters: What started as a volunteer journaling class in late 2013 would grow into genuine\, sincere\, and heartfelt friendships with several men on North Carolina’s Death Row. Tessie Castillo’s collaborative work\, Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row\, gives readers stark insight into the utter agony and dehumanization of long-term incarceration\, as well as stories of friendship\, family\, and finding life after a death sentence. \nGet your copy of Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row\, along with Sister Helen’s memoir River of Fire\, and Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States\,  at Scuppernong Books. \n  \n \n  \nTESSIE CASTILLO is a freelance journalist based in Raleigh\, North Carolina. She specializes in criminal justice \, drug policy\, and harm reduction. In 2014 she became one of the first members of the public invited inside North Carolina’s Death Row. This extraordinary opportunity\, as well as the correspondence she developed with several death row residents\, helped launch her passion for criminal justice reform.  Crimson Letters: Voice from Death Row is her first book. \n  \nSISTER HELEN PREJEAN is known around the world for her tireless work against the death penalty.  She has been instrumental in sparking national dialogue on capital punishment and in shaping the Catholic Church’s vigorous opposition to all executions. After witnessing the executions of Patrick Sonni\,er and Robert Lee Willie\, Sister Helen realized that this lethal ritual would remain unchallenged unless its secrecy was stripped away\, and so she sat down and wrote a book\, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. Dead Man Walking hit the shelves when national support for the death penalty was over 80% and\, in Sister Helen’s native Louisiana\, closer to 90%. The book ignited a national debate on capital punishment and it inspired an Academy Award winning movie\, a play and an opera. Sister Helen also embarked on a speaking tour that continues to this day. Sister Helen works with people of all faiths and those who follow no established faith\, but her voice has had a special resonance with her fellow Catholics. Sister Helen continues her work\, dividing her time between educating the public\, campaigning against the death penalty\, counseling individual death row prisoners\, and working with murder victims’ family members. Sister Helen’s second book\, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions\, was published in 2004; and her third book\, River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey\, in 2019. \n  \nLYLE MAY is a prisoner on North Carolina’s Death Row who is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Specialized Studies degree through Ohio University. He has been published in Scalawag Magazine\, J Journal\, The Marshall Project\, Copper Nickle\, and PrisonWriters.com. When he is not studying or pursuing criminal justice reform\, Lyle is challenging the narrative about people on Death Row. To view more of his writing go to: www.beyondsteeldoors.com  Check out his memoir\, Waiting for the Last Train. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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