Regarding Victoria and the inmate!
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My name is Jay Agnello (Author, Screenwriter, and Musician), and I have been involved with a number of projects with Victoria in the arts and world of humanities. There was a moment when Victoria first explained this endeavor that I felt she was exhausting a lot of time and resources to this idea. I am, by all means, a humanitarian, but I felt that this man had made his choices and now it is time for him to pay the consequences. Alas, her persistence was something of a beacon, and it occurred to me that she is right in so many ways. There is nothing correctional about our correctional institutions. There is nothing rehabilitative about our rehabilitations. These people are in fact very deprived, and very needy. Now "needy" is a term that turns a lot of us off. Those of us who are already bombarded by our own middle or middle-class plethora of issues to sort out. However, with some exceptions, these people are starving for truth, and starving for reconciliation that they would not get, otherwise, were it not for people like Victoria Wynn. There is not enough reaching out. There is not enough care. It also occurred to me that it is preposterous to see the amount of resources that go into convicting these people who are "teetering on the brink" of normality, so to speak. The tax money, the life-force, the energy, the gas to transport convicts, to feed them, to operate the high-tech doors and devices to make sure they are "Shut-off" from the rest of us. There has to be a way for us to fix this problem in our own home, (America) a house that is dysfunctional. I already know that it starts with our sorely neglected education system, but before we can even sink our teeth into that, we need to come to the conclusion that our system is doing the opposite of what it pretends to be doing. These people simply need love and true connection, as well as mentoring. I would inspire you to look into an inmate penpal, and see what you can do as well. Victoria Wynn has set the bar for actually engaging true spiritual connection to this inamate, and trying to help him swim back to the surface, where he truly wants to be. I was one of the people that attended his trial yesterday, and Victoria was right. When he saw us in the room, he delivered a smile that said it all. I have no doubt that whatever small influence we have had, he is rising from the dust!
My name is Jay Agnello (Author, Screenwriter, and Musician), and I have been involved with a number of projects with Victoria in the arts and world of humanities. There was a moment when Victoria first explained this endeavor that I felt she was exhausting a lot of time and resources to this idea. I am, by all means, a humanitarian, but I felt that this man had made his choices and now it is time for him to pay the consequences. Alas, her persistence was something of a beacon, and it occurred to me that she is right in so many ways. There is nothing correctional about our correctional institutions. There is nothing rehabilitative about our rehabilitations. These people are in fact very deprived, and very needy. Now "needy" is a term that turns a lot of us off. Those of us who are already bombarded by our own middle or middle-class plethora of issues to sort out. However, with some exceptions, these people are starving for truth, and starving for reconciliation that they would not get, otherwise, were it not for people like Victoria Wynn. There is not enough reaching out. There is not enough care. It also occurred to me that it is preposterous to see the amount of resources that go into convicting these people who are "teetering on the brink" of normality, so to speak. The tax money, the life-force, the energy, the gas to transport convicts, to feed them, to operate the high-tech doors and devices to make sure they are "Shut-off" from the rest of us. There has to be a way for us to fix this problem in our own home, (America) a house that is dysfunctional. I already know that it starts with our sorely neglected education system, but before we can even sink our teeth into that, we need to come to the conclusion that our system is doing the opposite of what it pretends to be doing. These people simply need love and true connection, as well as mentoring. I would inspire you to look into an inmate penpal, and see what you can do as well. Victoria Wynn has set the bar for actually engaging true spiritual connection to this inamate, and trying to help him swim back to the surface, where he truly wants to be. I was one of the people that attended his trial yesterday, and Victoria was right. When he saw us in the room, he delivered a smile that said it all. I have no doubt that whatever small influence we have had, he is rising from the dust!
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