The Scales of Justice have long represented the symbolism of justice. They represent the balancing of truth and fairness in each legal case. They also represent all evidence being weighed fairly, and typically the side with the most evidence wins the case. Lady Justice originates from Ancient Greece and Rome. The Greek Goddess of Justice, […]
Tag Archives: wrongful conviction
We’ll Do What They Can’t
There have been a couple more releases from the “Twitter Files”. If I were to sum it up into one sentence, I would say my main take away from these two releases were that government funded organizations and agencies were helping to monitor and censor speech where the government knew it could not legally take […]
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Those who have been following my journey have read of my spiritual connection and the guidance I receive in my morning devotional time. This guidance doesn’t always come just in the mornings, and I don’t always want to follow its promptings. I’ve become disciplined in following where I’m led (except for the night when I […]
A Day in the Life
A day in the life of an inmate isn’t too sensational. Many people are curious about what it’s like so let’s dive into some of the day to day basics. Travis originally started out assigned to a bunk in an open dorm-style housing area which housed 60 people. During his time in this space it […]
The First Letter
During the first few weeks of Travis’s sentence, we were spoiled with regular phone calls. Some weekends he would even call for 45 minutes (3 separate 15 minute calls). It was such a blessing as we transitioned to this new and temporary normal for his time away. (I constantly tell myself this is all temporary […]
You Deleted Your Account
On another un-noteworthy Thursday night, I drifted off to sleep. It was just a week or so earlier that I had reclaimed my ability to sleep peacefully throughout the night without waking repeatedly or being up for hours at a night. Many things in life have no price tag, and sleep is one of them. […]
Shook Beyond Recognition
It was an un-noteworthy Thursday, with the exception of having several internal promptings to not stay at my house that evening. Normally I follow my intuition without much question because it’s always guiding me to good things, but for some reason on this day I let my ego get in the way. I reached out […]
Public Safety Factor
You may recall we were shocked and blindsided when we received Travis’s designation to Rochester FMC as we had been anticipating him to be placed at Yankton Prison Camp. You can read more about the designation process and experience here. From what we were able to discern before Travis began his sentence, we believed Travis […]
You’re Saying I’ve Got a Chance
I was thankful when Travis initially told me he was in with a good group of guys, but this group of guys were going to be an enormous asset to Travis time and again. He had mentioned they were very knowledgeable in prison policy and law, but what this might mean for his future wasn’t […]
The First Call
It was Thursday. My first full day as a wife of an incarcerated prisoner. As I walked through the dining room to the kitchen for a cup of coffee that morning, I saw Trav’s phone and wallet. I picked the wallet up and held it close to my chest and took pause. For a brief […]