Woman Condemned

I write to Pam Moss often and included her in the Voices from Death Row book I wrote, which released in July. She is thought to have killed her husband and previously did time for killing her mother before she killed a man she was working for because she owed him money. You can learn more about in this post I wrote.  She also wrote me an interesting letter on fellow inmate Kelly Gissendaner and her execution. I received a letter from her in July. She talked about having recently gotten tablets in her pod. It made me think of all the letters and comments I get from people who do not think prisoners have WiFi access, or cable television. Not all prisons offer this to their inmates, but many do.  Some you can even have video visitations with. She says, "We got tablets last year. Very limited WiFi - mostly on email. There are some free resources: semi-decent dictionary, and a good thesaurus. 15+ free ebooks. Most are titles that remind me of school summer reading lists...

The Incarcerated Women Who Fight California’s Wildfires - The New York Times This is an amazing article I found in The New York Times today about incarcerated women who fight fires for less than $2 an hour.

This just happened, you guys. On Wednesday, the 6th, Ernest Kummer, 60, of Monroe was fatally shot at the westbound I-80 rest area near mile marker 208. Police arrived to find him dead in his cab and Mariana Lesnic close by. They arrested her and stated she shot him deliberately but with no premeditation. She made her initial appearance Wednesday in Iowa County District Court. Bond was set at $1 million. So far, nothing has been said about why she did it or what the circumstances were when the murder occurred.

Kryzie King, a 29-year-old, transgender woman from Hell's Kitchen, tortured and starved her boyfriends 4-year-old son to death in 2013. She was angry she'd been left with the boy over the long Christmas holiday. She had plans to go to Jamaica and now those plans were ruined. Ashlee Dobson Little Myls Dobson had been removed from the custody of his mother, Ashlee Dobson, in 2012 for charges of neglect and abuse and had been living with his father, Okee Wade, a convicted rapist. Wade had left King in charge of Myls went he left the luxury high rise but was arrested for failure to appear in court on fraud charges and jailed unexpectedly, leaving King to care for the boy. Okee Wade Over the course of 29 days she tortured him until he died on January 7th. She beat and burned him. She put him outside in several feet of snow for hours undressed. She tied him up and gagged him. Never once in the entire time did she feed him. He died of starvation and King called the polic...