{"id":19741,"date":"2015-03-31T07:59:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T14:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19741"},"modified":"2015-03-31T08:16:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T15:16:02","slug":"a-letter-from-robert-which-i-received-yesterday-yesterday-im-just-sayin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19741","title":{"rendered":"A letter from Robert. Which I received yesterday. Yesterday. I’m just sayin’."},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Or was it three days ago? Whatever. <\/p>\n

As usual, I’ll wait a few days, and then I’ll forward comments from this thread to Robert.<\/p>\n

Anyhow:)<\/em><\/p>\n

March 23, 2015 <\/p>\n

Dear Barry: <\/p>\n

Heyo. Thought I’d drop you a line using my spiffy new typewriter. America’s prisons, providing access to hundred-year old technology at only mildly criminal markup! My Facebook friends colluded to buy me this antique but valuable writing tool. It makes writing letters about a thousand times easier; wish I’d had it when I was working on the book.
\nHere, for the edification and updating of your readership at Alas!, is an update of my life status. (Well, it’s an update for you. By the time you get around to posting it, I presume it will be months out of date, he said, snippily.) <\/p>\n

Dear Alas friends – <\/p>\n

Greetings from Four Mile Correctional Center, which is soon to be no longer my home! I have been officially accepted into community corrections in Colorado Springs. Community corrections is essentially a transition program from prison to parole. I will reside in a jail-like facility (though less locked-down) but am free to leave the facility each day for work. I can also get passes from the facility so that I can (for example) go to the movies with friends or other wholesome activities. <\/p>\n

After a few months at community corrections, I can transition to non-residential status, meaning that I still have to account for my whereabouts and activities, but can live independently and without immediate supervision. It is effectively parole, though with more rules and structure. (Which, let’s face it, I do need.) <\/p>\n

I’m presently still at Four Mile, waiting for a bed to open up at the facility in the Springs. This could happen soon, but is more likely to be a couple of months. I am really hoping to be out before my birthday, which is in late June. <\/p>\n

I want to thank everyone who has helped me while I’ve been in here, with financial assistance, with personal letters, and with good and worthwhile counsel. Being in prison is hardly something to be grateful for, but I am grateful for the life lessons that I’ve been forced to learn, and especially grateful for the kindness that you have all shown me. I look forward to reintegrating into society and trying in some small way to make amends for the harms I’ve caused with my selfish actions. Parole isn’t trivial but it’s a whole lot better than prison and I can’t wait. <\/p>\n

Thank you all again. <\/p>\n

Love,
\nRob <\/p>\n

PS – If Amp takes six weeks to post this, then tell him he’s a lazy dirty hippie. But I love him anyway. <\/p>\n

\n

To send Robert a letter through the mail, use this address:<\/p>\n

Robert Luty Hayes, Jr. 165970
\nFMCC Unit E \u2013 Four Mile Correctional Center
\nP.O. Box 300
\nCa\u0144on City CO, 81215-0300<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you’d rather send him an email, you can go to Jpay.com<\/a> and enter Robert’s state (Colorado) and his DOC Number – 165970 – into the search fields. (Sometimes I’ve had to do this twice before it worked). Then you can use your debit card to send him an “email” (he’ll actually get it in the form of a print-out) or to send him money, or both. The cost of sending email is not expensive, it’s actually similar to the cost of postage. If you contact Robert via Jpay, be sure to give him your mailing address – he can’t use Jpay, so the only means he has for writing back to you is to send you mail through the post office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Or was it three days ago? Whatever. As usual, I’ll wait a few days, and then I’ll forward comments from this thread to Robert. Anyhow:) March 23, 2015 Dear Barry: Heyo. Thought I’d drop you a line using my spiffy … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-behind-bars","category-prisons-and-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19745,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19741\/revisions\/19745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}