Myrtle Green
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Petition
TO
Board of Parole Hearings
Chairman, James Davis
PO Box 4036
Sacramento, CA 95812-4036
and:-
Governor Arnold Schwartznegger
Office of Legal Affairs
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814
Request For Release Of:-
Myrtle E Green W 32887, Ca. Institution for Women, Corona, Ca 92880-9508
Ms Green, now aged 76, was found to be suitable for parole on December 28, 2005 with a parole date June 8, 2010. She has now served 18 years in a case of Conspiracy, where no harm came to anyone nor was there any attempt made on anyone’s life. Both the Parole Commissioners and the District Attorney agreed she would be no threat to the public safety. This begs the question, “why should she serve 27 years for murder when there was neither murder nor any attempt?”
Ms Green suffers from multiple disabilities, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and hypertension, causing the 2nd stroke on 1/5/07 leaving her blind in one eye. She also suffers from deafness.
In these days of severe prison overcrowding, would it not make better sense to free the California Taxpayers from the cost of her incarceration and medical care? The odds are against her living until 2010.
Would you please consider an earlier release for her?
Life of a 75 Year Old
There is not much to say about my life except I had it all. Now, suffice to say, it’s better to have had and lost, than never had at all. In my free state I was a law school graduate, owned for 35 years my own tax, accounting investment and real estate brokerage firms. All the while my partner raised and I raised 2 children. She stays in touch and supports me financially even though I have not spoken to her in 17 years. My daughter lives in Mississippi with my granddaughter who will turn 18 this month. She graduates this year, plans to attend university.
I have written my autobiography and am looking for a publisher. The title I have in mind is “From Cottonseed to Coca Leaf and All the Points Between”.
Myrtle Green is very active in many groups in prison: Long Timers, Convicted Women Against Abuse, African American Women’s Prisoner Association and Yes, I Can! an inmate tutorial group and others. Her address is Myrtle Green #32887, CIW/ MA31L, 16756 Chino-Corona Rd. Corona CA 92880, USA.
Dignity Denied – The Price of Imprisoning Older Women in California
http://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/pubs/dignity.pdf
(Photo Cover courtesy of Myrtle Green - 2005)
The above is a letter that Myrtle drafted, and she asked that people could sent it to the Governor.
The Parole Board were told that Myrtle had no place to parole to, no vocation, and her illnesses were fabricated. As you can see from Myrtle's blurb above, that's far from the truth. Almost a million dollars has been spent on her health care, to date, and she's terrified that she's not going to make it home to see her girls, it's purely fighting spirit and determination that's keeping her going. I would greatly appreciate it if you could find your way to write to the Governor of Ca. and pass her details along to anyone else who'd be willing to write.
The book should be fascinating - she's the great, great granddaughter of a slave woman and an English slave owner, and was born on the farm that her ancestor was given at the end of the Civil War, when the slaves were freed. She was a successful woman before this conviction, and this conviction only came about because she refused to testify against a drug dealer that her daughter had been involved with, and Myrtle had helped her flee from. He threatened to pursue and kill both daughter and granddaughter if Myrtle testified, but it's his testimony that convicted Myrtle - jailhouse witness given a deal, basically. Please drop Myrtle a card of support if you can, she really appreciates it.
Oh, Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins." - Old Indian Prayer My dad told me!! |
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Thanks for posting that, Karen. Myrtle really is an exceptional woman and can't help feeling, when reading what she's had happen, that a fair part of the behaviour of her Board Attorney was no more than bigotry as Myrtle was a successful black woman and in a same sex relationship. She lied through her teeth about the illnesses being fabricated - they're not. That Myrtle had nowhere to parole to, far from the truth, and also that Myrtle had a disciplinary in 2003 just prior to the parole decision - when in fact, it was 1993, twelve years before. CA are outrageous, and so inefficient that they wrote her telling me that they'd place my letter of my support 'in my mother's file'. It didnt even seem to occur to them that the letter came from the UK... |
Perhaps one of Myrtle's supporters could provide us a synopsis of her case which would help us understand her plight (in addition to her age considerations).
Thanks.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal... or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a ripple of hope...Robert Kennedy |
good idea 
In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.
Bankei |
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It's basically in the last paragraph - Conspiracy. Apparently on the word of this drug dealer that she refused to testify against, she 'conspired' to have someone killed that she'd never met in her life, and forgo 35 years of a successful, prosperous and law-abiding life to do this. It's a joke, and a very, very bad one. |
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