Aik din Salahuddin ne mujh se kaha tha: "...bahir azad phirne wala har koi naik nahi aur jail main band har koi gunhagar nahi. Insaan ka faisla kerne wali yahan ki adalat nahi, sirf Allah ki zaat hai"
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Richard Phillips spent 46 years in jail for a crime (longest wrongful prison in the US history) he never committed. But what makes this story unique is how he faced that injustice, how he kept his soul alive with poetry and painting, and how he smartly learned to forgive people who framed him.
"He read art books from the prison library for technique and inspiration. He admired the work of Picasso, Da Vinci, and especially Vincent Van Gogh, another man who suffered, locked away in an institution, struggling to keep his sanity. Van Gogh and Phillips kept on painting...........The better he got, the more he enjoyed it. Painting became an addiction. He woke up and couldn’t wait to get breakfast, drink his watery orange juice, and come back to his art. By then his roommate would be gone for the day, in the yard or at work, and Phillips could turn on his music. Outside inmates yelled, guards barked, dominoes fell, ping-pong balls smashed, showers hissed, toilets flushed, televisions blared, but Phillips put in his headphones and drowned it all out. All he could hear was John Coltrane or Miles Davis, focusing his energy, guiding his next brushstroke."
Read the full story here: https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2020/04/us/longest-wrongful-prison-sentence/
(here)
Richard Phillips spent 46 years in jail for a crime (longest wrongful prison in the US history) he never committed. But what makes this story unique is how he faced that injustice, how he kept his soul alive with poetry and painting, and how he smartly learned to forgive people who framed him.
"He read art books from the prison library for technique and inspiration. He admired the work of Picasso, Da Vinci, and especially Vincent Van Gogh, another man who suffered, locked away in an institution, struggling to keep his sanity. Van Gogh and Phillips kept on painting...........The better he got, the more he enjoyed it. Painting became an addiction. He woke up and couldn’t wait to get breakfast, drink his watery orange juice, and come back to his art. By then his roommate would be gone for the day, in the yard or at work, and Phillips could turn on his music. Outside inmates yelled, guards barked, dominoes fell, ping-pong balls smashed, showers hissed, toilets flushed, televisions blared, but Phillips put in his headphones and drowned it all out. All he could hear was John Coltrane or Miles Davis, focusing his energy, guiding his next brushstroke."
Read the full story here: https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2020/04/us/longest-wrongful-prison-sentence/
2 comments:
Sheer injustice I wonder how the Judges or the Lawyers involved feel and the guilty people who made it this way
With my experiences of courts here and back in Pakistan, I am very sure that justice in worldly courts depends on how good you can manipulate evidence and words.
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