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The Year that Was

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

I am sitting in my office on Tuesday afternoon, December 23, and all the staff has left for the holiday. I am going through the piles of paper on my desk to be sure I haven't missed anything too monumental before I head home for Christmas.And, I decided that I need to reflect for just a few minutes on the year that was. This year has been a bit of a roller coaster ride, but what's new for the work of abolition? TCASK's biggest achievement of 2008 has to be Paul House's release on July 2nd. Watching that van drive through the rows of barbed wire at DeBerry Special Needs facility and into the parking lot with Paul House sitting in the back seat, eating a candy bar and drinking a Pepsi, unshackled and wearing free world clothes--that is a sight that I won't soon forget...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on December 23, 2008 (boomark / email).