Andy Dixon, ex-con with convictions, spent 27 years of an illegal life without parole sentence talks about what twitter & prison yard have in common,
Andy Dixon will be in NYC April 16-30 (available to meet with you) he will be speaking april 21 at NYC.140conf.com conference april 20/21 on effects of twitter, state of now and real time media conference
i asked Andy Dixon what he would like to see happen from his visit to NYC and to the 140characters conference nyc.140conf.com
you can reach Andy Dixon or myself geo geller at Andy@MyOwnPrivateRevolution.com geo@MyOwnPrivateRevolution.com
also to hear more of andy talk and sing about life in and out of prison and his meeting and relationship to James Earl Ray and his love story with his present wife too go to http://MyOwnPrivateRevolution.com/andydixon
i like to see people get involved and help to put focus on Generational incarceration to help young people stay out of prison. Its also a victims right issue because for ever kid we reach that is one less victim out there in the world. I’d like to see funding for 25yr old non-profit organization Reconciliation http://www.reconciliations.org leader in stopping cycle of generational incarceration out of Nashville Tennessee. I would like a book deal and later a movie deal to raise money to use in the long struggle for policy change in how we as a Nation handle our criminal justice system…. My lofty goal is to close prison’s and open up healing centers where when the book gets thrown at some one its the DSM5 (mental health diagnostic bible) I believe that criminal behavior is a symptom of mental illness and should be treated not punished.
The first challenge is too have a serious dialogue and change our mind set from cowboy justice and revenge and pandering to vigilantism. We need to stop doing what does not work. we have been doing the same way since the founding of our Nation and it has not slowed crime down one victim. In fact there is evidence that our approach has actually made us less safe, by creating a subculture of violent criminals who are in truth mentally ill
link to Andy Dixon court Tennessee supreme court order ending his life without parole sentence
also to hear more of andy talk about life in and out of prison and his meeting and relationship to James Earl Ray and his love story with his present wife
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE October 4, 2001 Session
WILLIAM ANDREW DIXON v. FLORA J. HOLLAND, WARDEN – case number – Nos. M1999-02494-SC-R11-PC – Filed March 19, 2002
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/tennesseestatecases/supreme/20021/dixonwill.pdf
be well
geo geller