Helping prisoners on death row live connected and fruitful lives
The bimonthly Compassion newsletter is written by death row prisoners in the United States. It is distributed without charge to all 2,500 serving under a sentence of death and to 1,000-2,000 serving life without parole.
Unique Insight
Compassion provides a unique venue for sharing. Within its pages, many of the prisoner’s articles and poems offer readers the sometimes closely guarded insights into their lives. Conversely, in Compassion’s “Victims Voice” column, family members of murder victims provide death row prisoners a heartbreaking look at how the tragedy of murder has brought pain and suffering into their lives.
Meaningful Lives
Compassion urges prisoners to set a new moral decency for themselves. Through their writings they encourage other prisoners to genuinely work toward finding ways they can help others both inside and outside the prison walls. It is evident from the submissions sent by prisoners to Compassion that many are moved to set individual goals of working on acts of kindness and restorative programs as well as to seek redemption.
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"Deep into the dreadful confines of our unfortunate predicament, where our lonely existence fades out of sight, mind, heart, and emotions of others – it is Compassion that remembers us. It reaches out to us in friendship, fellowship, humanity, kindness."
Darrell Sharpe
Massachusetts Correctional Institute
Contact
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Email
compassionondeathrow@msn.com