Please read this…
Brandon Astor Jones has many years to reflect on life and what is really
important. I got to know Brandon as a result of my
mother writing to him through an organisation that creates opportunity for
people to correspond with Death Row prisoners.
‘Brandon Astor Jones is a 63 year old African American who produces a
steady stream of well-informed essays and articles from a very small room...
Airless and noisy, his workplace is a cell on Death Row in the state of Georgia where he has been
incarcerated for twenty-seven years.’
Brandon’s writings are authentic,
rooted in his own experience. He grew up in an environment where prejudice, humiliation
and abuse were the norm. He eventually ran away from extremely unhappy family
experiences as a young boy. He survived, but at a cost….
I am aware that Brandon was not the
finger on the trigger when a store attendant was shot dead during the robbery
for which he was sentenced, however, Georgia’s state laws make
an accomplice subject to the same penalty as that given to the murderer.
‘The young man who was involved in that crime has long since been reborn
as a morally mature person passionately opposed to the injustices of racism,
child abuse and misogyny’
– recurrent themes that he addresses in his work
Brandon does not have
long to live, probably only a few months, maybe only a few weeks. The appeal
process is now exhausted. Brandon yearns for
contact with people who will read his writings. Friends outside the prison
maintain website where his work may be read:
www.brandonastorjones.com
Please check out his website and his writings. If you are moved by his
writing and wish to contact him, please do so. He can only receive written
correspondence. It should be sent to:
Mr Brandon Astor Jones
G3-73 UNO#400574: EF-122216
Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison
Post Office Box 3877
Jackson
Georgia 30233
USA
Please write your own name and address in the top left corner of the
envelope.
Thank you for taking time to read this and I hope you will write Brandon in response to
anything he has written on his website. I know he will appreciate and value any
contact or reaction to what he writes in the time he has left.
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