SO WHY SUCH A HARSH sentence handed to George Martorano? We believe that in the prosecution’s effort to send a message to George’s father, Raymond “Long John” Martorano, an alleged mafia figure, he was given the maximum sentence allowed by law; life with no parole. Because he remained silent, they “locked him up and threw away the key,” put him in solitary confinement for four and one half years, and kept him in America’s most notorious prison: Marion, which is completely underground. Then George began to write. He wrote and published a book about growing up in the old Italian-American neighborhood in Philadelphia, “South Philly.” He now has over twenty works depicting life in prison as well as life on the outside. He teaches reading and writing, yoga, and even counsels suicidal inmates. He has a spotless prison record without an incident of violence in all of his twenty-two years in America’s toughest jails. @eric holder U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons The United States Department of Justice NPR CNN Free George Martorano Justice Campaign @freegeorge.us WashingtonWatch Human Rights Watch Creative Artists Agency H.R. 223: Federal Prison Bureau Nonviolent Offender Relief Act of 2011
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:20:20 +0000
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