from the M100 bus on East 125th St.
“Never eat at a place called Mom’s, never play cards with a man named Doc and never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you.” – Nelson Algren
Shawshank time and then deported. Dempsey Hawkins.
After 38 years in a US prison, a British born man serving life is sent back to a country he barely knew. A cold and biting January wind was blowing through Washington DC as I sat in Dulles International Airport awaiting my flight to Britain. Earlier that morning I had been lying on my bed […]
Four Decades Later, Teenaged Killer is Paroled, and Deported
The day this article appeared the last letter of my decade long prison correspondence with Dempsey Hawkins, with the few dollars I could spare towards his first days of freedom, was returned to me: addressee no longer here. After 39 years my pal is no longer penned. Crime Scene By MICHAEL WILSON JAN. 29, 2017 […]
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