Category: Defendant Writings

  • Defendant Dario Sanchez’s experiences in jail and after release on bond

    Read more about Dario Sanchez here. At first, my incarceration was the same as everyone else’s. Isolation, in a dirty cell. After my bond was lowered and I was released, they pull a bait & switch at a hearing to add conditions to my release. They indicted me on a second charge and sent me to jail for labor day weekend. While I was in booking for two days, I heard a young, disabled man in an isolated cell scream and beg for his parents for hours at a time. I can still feel the thump of his body against…

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  • Sunshine by Maricela Rueda

    5:22 PM 7/31/2025 I want to write hopeful thingsI want to make believeA wish came and tickled my nose as I bathedIn Sunshine, in the form of a single dandelion seed.I found a baby bird feather that I treasure,like memories of tasting what it means to be free.I watch the spiders in the windowsas they too, weave.I daydream and make believe because it’sOne of the few things they cannot thieve.I grieve because I have loved and somewhereout there my community loves me, I must believe.I breathe and wait for a release for all mysiblings taken because as surely as my…

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