Lee,
I don't understand why the system has to make things so hard on everyone! I
wrote to the people I was told were the proper channels of TDCJ to go through
and requested a hardship transfer for my boys, sent my medical information and
everything, they say that they (the system) wants/thinks it is good for the
inmates to be able to have visits with family, well, I haven't seen my two boys
in over 2 years now...at least it seems that long, longer really if the truth
be known, I feel like it has been an eternity!
The reason I have not been able to see my boys is I can not drive myself and I
have no one I can depend on to take me there and back. The reason I can't drive
is because I am losing my eyesight and the state of texas refused to renew my
driver license because of that. I have been to numerous doctors with no hope of
correcting my vision so I can get my license back.
I have also in the last year had two surgeries to remove cancer cells from my body,
which now the doctors say they got it all!!! I hope so, I have been told this
before, before I had to have two surgeries in one months
time for it!! I am 45 years old Lee, and my body is wearing down fast I need to
see my boys, I need to feel there energy, there love, I need to be able to hold
them and let them know how much I love them. I need to be able to SEE them both
while I can still see. But, if perhaps if this doesn't happen, I will
NEVER forget their faces, they will forever be imbeded in my head and my
heart. I love them with all of my being
Lee! They have had hard lives, I know that is no excuse for them to do anything
to be where their at. They know they have wronged and
are paying their price, but , so am I! Maybe this is
my punishment for the wrong I have done them by not being there for them when
they needed me and letting them go through things they shouldn't have as young
boys, If so I will carry my punishment in my heart, as I should. For I
know I have wronged my Boys Lee...I can't turn back the hands of time though,
if I could things would be so much different!
TDJC has put Heath and Joey in different places which we were trying to get
them both in the same place closer to the oklahoma/texas state line, or both
moved to oklahoma as close to tulsa as possible so it would be easier for me to
go visit with them, I still wouldn't get to go often...But I would get to go,
and that's what matters! To me and to Heath and Joey.
I wish I could find someone that would write to them on a regular basis, they
have no one else other than me and their great grandmother that writes to them.
I know that's got to bore them to tears (laughing) but at least they do get
letters every now and then from someone, that's what counts! Here are their addresses
and I have also enclosed the letters I got back from TDCJ after writing them
with a request for a hardship transfer for the both of them.
Dannette
This is an e-mail she sent to a pen pal group.
Hello everyone, I am posting this under my sons yahoo
ID and I hope that's all right. I have two sons in prisons in
Thanks for reading this post and for your time.
Ravenz
Heath Smith #1008434
Telford Unit
P.O.Box 9200
New Boston, Tx. 75570
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Joey Smith #1029651
1992 Hilton Rd.
Pampa, Tx. 79065-9696
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This is Heaths new cell mate and he ask me to see if I could locate
him some pen pals also. He is 49 years old, african american,
is very
much into art, and is very lonely.
Davie Lee Jones #360500
New Boston, Tx. 75570
He would prefer a Christian Woman to write to.
Joey's
page.
Heath's page.
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