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Polunsky visitation with Jeff

By "Persian Cowboy"

Terri Been is sister of death-row inmate Jeff Wood. In this letter she talks about her experience with visiting her brother on death-row and the situation during and after this month's lock-down.Yesterday?s visit to my brother was bitter sweet to say the least. Overall the visit went well, but it was very emotional and degrading!!! The lockdown has taken its toll not only on the overall policy at Polunsky, but on the spirit of the inmates as well.I have visited the Polunsky unit MANY times over the course of my brother?s incarceration, but never have I experienced the overwhelming sense of complete and absolute dread that I felt there last night. Now don?t get me wrong, I have experienced dread there before?as my brother came within hours of his execution, and we said what we thought would be our final goodbyes to him, which has crippled and destroyed me emotionally; BUT the dread that I am talking about now reaches further than just those who have an execution date...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on November 17, 2008 (boomark / email).