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Send Marc Emery Mail or Money in US Prison
SENDING MARC MAIL
ALL MAIL IS READ BY PRISON OFFICIALS. Do not write about illegal activities or anything that you feel might jeaopordize your safety. The formal guidelines are listed below.
Photos are permitted (up to 25 per envelope), but don't send pictures of bongs, marijuana use or plants, nudity, or anything illegal because it will be refused.
You must include a return address or the mail will be returned to you. You can use an address different from your home if you want to keep that information private.
MARC SCOTT EMERY #40252-086 Unit DB
FDC SEATAC
PO BOX 13900
SEATTLE, WA
98198-1090
USA
Please write to Marc about what you're doing in your life, the activism you've done, the silly little pleasures and joys of your day, the news about what's happening in the world and your area, etc. Prison life is just endless boring repetition, cut off from the outside. Nothing ever changes and nothing new ever happens, so Marc would really appreciate getting reports from the outside world! Marc writes back to everyone who sends him a letter, too!
Marc Emery: All About Prison and What Comes Next
By: Marc Emery, Cannabis Culture (Introduction by Jodie Emery)Marc decided to write the complete story of his status as a political prisoner in the US federal prison system: what he does, what it's like, his future prospects at Sea-Tac Federal Detention Center in Seattle and wherever he gets sent after sentencing, and the process of returning to Canada.
This letter was written to be copied and sent to everyone who sends him mail so he doesn't have to write it out repeatedly, but he still writes personal messages along with every letter he sends out.
Mexico drug cartels thrive despite Calderon's offensive
Nearly four years after President Felipe Calderon launched a military-led crackdown against drug traffickers, the cartels are smuggling more narcotics into the United States, amassing bigger fortunes and extending their dominion at home with such savagery that swaths of Mexico are now in effect without authority.
The groups also are expanding their ambitions far beyond the drug trade, transforming themselves into broad criminal empires deeply involved in migrant smuggling, extortion, kidnapping and trafficking in contraband such as pirated DVDs.
Undeterred by the 80,000 troops and federal police officers arrayed against them, gunmen frequently take on Mexican forces in the open. Operatives of one group, the Zetas, did so in northern Mexico this spring when they blockaded army garrisons. In June a group believed to be linked to another organization, La Familia, ambushed federal police in the western state of Michoacan, killing 12 officers in early morning light.
Siddiqui: Harper’s Ottawa becomes Republican la-la land
By Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto StarWhen you have finished laughing at Stockwell Day — for building jails for criminals he cannot find — think of the failed American regime of crime and punishment.
To his estimated $9 billion expenditure, add the $1 billion bill for security at the G20 summit and the $16 billion purchase of F-35s in an untendered contract.
Stack such expenses against Stephen Harper’s commitment to halve the $54 billion debt in five years, and wonder what he plans to slash and burn to get there.
Barbara Kay: More prisons isn’t the answer
By: Barbara Kay, National PostIn one of those neat coincidences that bring a gleam to a columnist’s eye, the news cycle last month brought us Conrad Black’s release on bail from an American prison, his editor’s suggestion that he write a book about necessary reforms to the U.S. criminal justice system and as well our government’s announcement that it plans to expand the $5.1-billion dollar a year prison system to the tune of $9.5-billion a year, financing new prisons and tougher sentencing. The government’s lame justification for the expansion is the “alarming statistic” that 34% of crime goes unreported, a figure dredged up from a 2004 StatsCan report (that also found 94% of Canadians feel safe).
Is our highest court moving to the right?
Editorial, Orangeville CitizenPERHAPS IT’S IN RESPONSE to the law-and-order agenda of the Harper Conservatives, and maybe it’s a sign of things to come. Whatever the case, a Supreme Court of Canada judgment released last Friday must be sending alarm bells ringing among Canadians concerned at protecting our civil liberties.
For years now, we’ve become accustomed to politics dominating the United States Supreme Court, a classic example being when that court voted 5- 4 to effectively put George W. Bush in office by barring recounts in Florida that would likely have given the swing state to Al Gore.
Ex-Mexican president's proposal to legalize drugs stokes debate and meets resistance
By: Mark Stevenson, Winnipeg Free PressMEXICO CITY - A former Mexican president's proposal to legalize drugs as a way of breaking the economic power of drug cartels is stoking debate inside his country and bringing opposition in Washington.
One thing most experts agreed on is that the idea is unlikely to prosper without similar moves to legalize or regulate the sale of drugs in the United States, the main consumer of drugs from Mexico.
When former President Vicente Fox wrote in a blog Sunday that "we should consider legalizing the production, distribution and sale of drugs," it was the most far-reaching and high-ranking stand for legalization yet in Mexico, where more than 28,000 people have died during the current administration's war against drug cartels. Read more »
Small 'c' conservatives should end the war on drugs
By: Charles W. Moore, Telegraph JournalScanning coverage of Conrad Black's release from prison on bail, I was amused (sort of) by a reporter's describing Mr. Black as a "one-time conservative." This assessment was based on Mr. Black's taking up the cause of prison and drug-law reform during his incarceration, and says more about the writer's superficial, stereotyped perceptions of "conservatism" than about Mr. Black's politics.
Day's interpretation of statistics is a crime
By Paula Simons, Edmonton Journal Stockwell Day is worried. He'd like you to be worried too. Sure, Statistics Canada figures show that crime, including serious violent crime, is down across Canada. But "unreported crime," says Day, is on the rise, at what he calls an alarming rate.
That, he says, is why the Conservative government is pushing ahead with its anti-crime agenda, which includes plans to increase sentences for a wide range of off ences, and to build new prisons to accommodate more prisoners. Various estimates have put the cost of building and operating those prisons at between $5 billion and $9 billion.
Marc Emery wonders what's happening with his mail
By Charlie Smith, Georgia StraightThe Prince of Pot's U.S. Federal Prison blog # 8 cites a "disturbing series of occurrences" with his mail.
In the blog, Marc Emery wrote that a number of items he has sent and that he should have received have gone missing.
He mentioned that he decorated an envelope in colour with hand-done calligraphy for a letter to his wife Jodie. Emery wrote that he sent it on July 14 so it would arrive in time for their fourth wedding anniversary on July 23.
"But alas, the letter never arrived, and I don't know if you or I will ever know where it went," Emery noted.
He also stated that two photographs of him, which he paid for in jail, were sent three weeks ago, but did not make it to their destination.
