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This article includes some strong views that may be surprising and challenging. We have chosen to publish it because we believe prisoners have a right to seek interaction with those outside the prison walls. We also believe there are many innocent men and women in prison who are wrongly convicted of sex offenses. They too, have a right to stand up for their innocence. One of the more poignant episodes in our lives was in June, 1985, when Lois Bentz, accused with her husband, Robert, of sexually abusing children in Jordan, Minnesota, was told by her attorney about a very attractive plea bargain. With tears running down her face, Lois said to us, I did not do it and I will not say I did something I didnt do. The Bentzes rejected the plea bargain and went to trial. The Bentzes were acquitted and the Jordan case is often regarded as the beginning of the backlash that has led to increased awareness of false accusations and the reversals of several highly publicized convictions in recent years.Still there are many many lesser known cases where Large numbers of innocent people remain behind bars. We receive letters every week from men and women in prison who assert their innocence. For years we have agonized about what we can do in response. The most we have been able to do is to try to stay in contact and provide information to assist those working on appeals. Based upon our experience with Ms. Bentz, we have also tried to say what Mr. Anderson repeats several times in this article — maintain your own personal integrity. Mr. Anderson tells us how he has done this for himself. It may not be a way that works for everyone, but this is what he tells us works for him. We believe Mr. Anderson is very likely to walk out of prison when his time is served and be standing up straight and tall.Your only exposure to what prison is like has been through movies that sensationalize the violence, drug use, and sex in the big house. The prison bus youre on rounds a lonely highway corner and you get your first glimpse of what is to be your home for the next 10odd years — a steel, razor wire, and concrete house of pain. You wonder how youll ever make it out of this hate factory alive. You imagine your first day being gangraped by six huge, tattooed lifers, by the end of the week youre being sold up and down the tier for cigarettes, and within a month, youre found dead in your cell with a twelveinch shank protruding from your chest. Not only are you the new fish in the cell block, but you have been convicted of a sex crime, and youve heard how convicted sex criminals are abused in the joint.

 

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