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INJUSTICE

By Carlos King
The difficulty it takes trying to wrap my mind around this level of injustice, it's just too inhumane to be ingested, to absorb the particles of it's degradation on the face of it's merits, is to find yourself depressed and mentally angered for every second that you bare it... Because there's not one person on the face of the planet, that doesn't desire to be treated fairly, so how can you not hear me, when I am speaking so very clearly, or maybe you are not listening to my suffering because you are afraid to come near me, thinking that my pain may touch you and force you to treat me dearly... Why would you walk blindly around, disregarding the fate of the downtrodden, the ones who've been forgotten, the ones who are battered and bruised by a prison system that sees us as being rotten, I guess to see is to care, but that character trait must be at your bottom, seeing as though you refuse to lift a hand and offer some aid by simply saying I got you... Instead, yo...
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Letter to Governor Whitmer

By Carlos King
 Dear Governor Whitmer, I’m writing to you today, not as a citizen of Michigan, nor the United States but as a citizen of the world.  The purpose of my letter is to ask you to look at the case of Carlos King, a prisoner of the Michigan  Correctional Department. Carlos has served 30 years of a 50-75 sentence. He was imprisoned at the age of 18 for 2 counts of  armed robbery and one count of felony firearms. The guidelines for sentencing were 3 years minimum  to 8 years maximum. The judge who tried the case took it upon himself to add to the sentence for  crimes that Mr. King was tried for but found innocent of. It has since been recognized that this was an unconstitutional sentencing, and it should be reversed  immediately.  These are the raw facts of this case. However, as you know there are so many stories between the lines  when we look at individuals’ lives. What has happened to Mr. King, and I suspect so many other men,  especially m...
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THE RELEVANCE AND IMPORTANCE OF MY STORY.

By Carlos King
From my arrest, prosecution and prison sentence, no one has ever asked to hear my story. Not where I came from, not what happened in my childhood that tore the fabric of my being, and not what caused me to choose crime instead of education. None of those questions were asked. No one ever desired to know the mitigating circumstances that landed me in prison! All that mattered to the police officer, prosecutor, court appointed attorney, judge and the jury was: "He committed this crime and we will punish him for it." From the beginning to the end of the judicial process, they never saw a dysfunctional teen, a teen who experienced sexual assault as a seven/eight year old child, a teen who hated seeing his single mother struggle to give him the essentials to have a meaningful life, a teen who had never met his father, and lastly, they never saw an inadequate teen who was incapable of being a father to his only child. No, they never saw any of those things when they looked upon me,...
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