A YEAR IN REVIEW
BY TRACY SCHLAPP & DANNY WILSON
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Every Friday I look forward to reading the work you publish. Thanks for doing this important work.
I write to and visit an OSP prisoner who got off Death Row just before Covid. Everyone there was transferred but his sentence was changed but he’ll probably never be a free man. I heard about your program when you did a presentation at Oregon Jewish Museum. Eric taught himself to paint and copies works by the Masters as well as his own creations. The transfer to General Population has made it impossible for him to continue painting most of the time. Too many distractions and the guards there are severe not like the ones he knew before. Keep up your good work!