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My name is Brenna Cussen Anglada, and I am a farmer, a wife, a Catholic, and an activist. I met DarRen Morris in January 2017 through his artwork at a show that his good friend sponsored. Though not an artist myself, DarRen's paintings (darrenmorrisart.com.) immediately drew me deeply into his experience of spirituality, sensuality, black culture, pain, and the self. I have corresponded with him in prison often since then, and have read his compelling book In Warm Blood: Prison and Privilege, Hurt and Heart. I have met many of his close friends and long-time visitors, and have visited with him myself several times. I know this man to be a gift to the world. His authentic spirituality, deep sense of himself, and perspective on the world are transformative to be around.
DarRen was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 100 years (a sentence that is no longer legal to impose on a minor) because he was party to the unintentional killing of a man, a crime for which he remains deeply remorseful. At the age of 42, DarRen has now served more than half of his life behind bars.
During the last decades, DarRen has become an accomplished artist; he paints and donates his work. Judith Gwinn Adrian, the co-author of DarRen's book (a finalist in two categories of the 2015 USA Best Book Awards) organizes showings of DarRen’s art, which he hopes will both save youth from making negative choices like his, and contribute to prison reform by letting people on the “outside” know what life is like on the “inside.”
After 25 years in prison, DarRen finally has a chance for freedom! Robert R. and Ellen Henak, one of the best lawyer teams in Wisconsin, have agreed to take DarRen’s case. They will charge an initial fee of $35,000, of which DarRen's family and supporters have raised over 30,000 already! DarRen needs to raise $4,000 more in order to move forward with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
You can view DarRen's art, learn more about him, and watch an interview with him, at www.inwarmblood.net.
Help DarRen achieve freedom, and say NO to the inhumane practice of sentencing minors to life in prison without the chance of parole. This world will be a more beautiful place with DarRen able to gift it with his full, and free, self.
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