Lauren Gazzola
Lauren Gazzola (93497-011) **Released 17th March**
FCI Danbury, Route #37, 33 1/2 Pembroke Road, Danbury, CT 06811, USA.
Sentenced 4 years, 4 months. (One of the US SHAC 7)
www.supportlauren.com
Birthday: 1st May
June 01, 2010
Hi everyone!
Please forgive my (to date) post-prison silence. I got home from the halfway house on May 4th and have been busy putting my life back together. I will be on home confinement until mid-August, at which point i will begin three years of probation. I’m hoping my probation officer will let me travel, and I look forward to seeing many of you then.
Regarding our case, we’re still awaiting a ruling on our request for the full Third Circuit to hear our appeal.
Special thanks to everyone who has helped me get back on my feet, and for the hands-on help wile I was in the halfway house. And of course thanks to everyone who has supported the SHAC 7 since day one. Below is my last SupportLauren.com posting from prison in case anyone hasn’t seen it.
Thank you all again.
Take care,
Lauren
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“It was a glorious experience.”
So remarked Moreese Bickham upon being released from prison after serving thirty-seven years for defending himself against a Ku Klux Klansman who shot him. In his book, Stumbling on Happiness, Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert relates Bickham’s comments, while discussing the curiously common phenomenon of people who have suffered through trauma claiming that their lives were enhanced by the experience. I understand this sentiment; I would not trade my prison experience.
I have been trying for days to elaborate on this feeling, to describe parts of my time in prison that have actually been enjoyable, and to explain how even the parts that were pure hell were worth it. But words are failing me. Suffice it to say that prison has been one of the most valuable experiences of my life. Taken back to May 26, 2004, and asked whether I want to be arrested, to go through it all again, I would not hesitate before answering “yes”. A fuller explanation will have to await the book (which, in turn, will have to await me having any desire to write a book).
Endless thanks to everyone who has supported the SHAC 7 since our arrest. A number of people have gone well out of their way for me personally…..
One SHAC 7 defendant remains in prison while our appeals continue. Everyone, please, keep up your support – visit shac7.com/kevin