Jane’s Journey to Wellness

I received the following email today……..

Dear Friend,

If you have known me for very long you know that I have worked and prayed for many years that one of the PATCH moms that I have worked with over the years would receive a commutation for the time that she has served in a Missouri prison.  She is currently on her 22 year of a 50 year sentence.

With the Governor leaving office in January it is a prime opportunity for us to try again to ask for clemency for Patty Prewitt.  I would ask you to join me in our attempts.  You can do this in a couple of ways.  There is a website set up that you can read more about Patty and our efforts.  The address is commutepatty.blogspot.com.  Pleasego to the site and sign the petion if it is something that you feel comfortable doing.

I would also ask the question of you that we have been asking of everyone.  Do you know a legislator that is particularly close to the Governor or do you know a personal friend of the Governor?  We are looking for someone that has the Govenor’s ear so that he might be willing to at least review the information that we will be submitting to him.

The second way that you could help me would be to pray.  It has been my prayer that the Governor would do the right thing and commute patty’s sentence. With no judgment of her innocence or guilt we all know that she has been incarcerated for a very long time.  The second part of my prayer is that the ones in opposition of this would become a non issue, that their hearts would be changed or that the Governor would hear the opposition’s voice as a non issue.

Please participate at the level that you feel comfortable.  Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or suggestions about our process .

Blessings,

June Pearse

She sent it to all of her family, friends, co-workers and our family. June was our “patch lady”. When mom was in Jefferson City and my boys were babies and some of my siblings were teens we would have visits with mom in a trailer. June was who watched us. The PATCH (parents and their chidlren) program was great. We would spend the whole day, cook together, play games, leg wrestle and cuddle up. It was great to be able nurse my babies and not be harrassed by a guard. “Can’t you do that in the bathroom or before and after you leave here?” I was asked once. Of course it was one of those days were your baby wants to nurse all day. The main visiting room is a horrible place that we have to make the best of. You can talk or laugh too loud, can’t touch too much and they don’t allow running or kids playing much at all. It’s hard to act natural in there no matter how old you are. We always eat processed vending machine food that we microwave. In the patch trailer we could be ourselves and cook real food. I could go on and on! They gave us Christmas and birthday presents too! We all loved it and loved June and another prisoner named Helen. It was our prison home. Now we have to deal with the visiting room and I miss the Patch trailer everytime.

Please check out the website that June has put together. There is even some videos of my mom reading some of her poetry. Please sign the petition and share this with your friends and family.

Thanks! Love, Jane