Tag Archive for Illinois

Innocent Man is Released but Imprisoned

Imagine this: You’ve been totally cleared of murder after spending 21 years in prison.  Your state lets you out but makes you–a legally and actually innocent person–wear an ankle monitor and keep you on the books as a murderer.  That’s what’s happening to an Illinois man, Tyrone Hood.

Read a short summary of the situation, in his own words.  For more details, click on the links he gives you.  Then do something to help this man who is caught in an unjust system.  On the page giving his summary, at change.org, is a place where you can sign a petition to free him totally.  Politicians respond to pressure.

If this can happen to him, it can happen to any of us accused of any crime.

 

 

Harming Children on Purpose

Razor blades embedded in playground equipment?!  I thought that nobody would do such a thing.  Until the news reported that it has happened four times in a San Diego, CA playground.  And in an Illinois playground a month ago.  And in Philadelphia eleven months ago.  Where else, I wonder.

But I wonder even more how anyone could fasten razor blades to jungle gyms and climbing bars or bury them in sandboxes, knowing full well that little children would have fingers, hands, and knees sliced open, causing pain to them and their parents.

I hope for a quick catching and prosecuting of those people.  An adult’s responsibility is to protect children, not to terrorize them.