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    The Mentor
    The Mentor
    The Mentor
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    The Mentor

    By Elizabeth Simon

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    The Mentor is a book about a vow that was made by me when I was incarcerated and the system would not release me in spite of me being found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity. The book tells about my childhood, my family life, and tries to tell the story of what drove me to commit a crime spree. It tells about my stay at the Calcasieu Corrections Center for Women. The vow involves coming back to jail as a mentor to tell inmates how to survive what brought them to jail. The teaching of life skills and re- entry skills and encouraging inmates to read their bible.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateAug 10, 2020
    ISBN9781984588654
    The Mentor
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    Elizabeth Simon

    I am just an ordinary person who had a nightmare and decided to write about it. My first book, The Mentor was about me. This book is totally fictional and a result of a recurring nightmare I had for years. I am a clerk in a major grocery chain. My job duties vary. Writing is my hobby and I enjoy seeing my work in print. I am a college grad my degrees are a Bachelors of General Studies with a concentration in Behavioral Science and an Associates of Arts Degree in Paralegal Studies. I would like a better job but that opportunity does not present itself. I have worked for the same employer for 15 years and 6 months.

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      The Mentor - Elizabeth Simon

      Copyright © 2020 by Elizabeth Simon.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Scripture quotations marked NIV are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. [Biblica]

      The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 08/07/2020

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      Contents

      Chapter 1 The Conditional Release

      Chapter 2 The Special Housing Unit

      Chapter 3 My Childhood

      Chapter 4 School Days

      Chapter 5 Hallucinations or Apparitions

      Chapter 6 The Release from Jail

      Chapter 7 The Crime Spree

      Chapter 8 2020

      CHAPTER 1

      The Conditional Release

      I DECIDED TO write this book to let go of the past. I feel people would not let me let it go but I need to. In 2004, I filed civil action under section 1983 from Calcasieu Correction Center. The federal Judge would not let me precede In Forma Pauperis and said I had to pay the $150.00 filing fee. I elected to have it taken out of my commissary funds. I rarely got commissary funds so I thought it would go away. Here it is June 9, 2020 and I go to the jail to pay the remaining balance of $54.69 on my commissary which was the remaining court fee.

      I was found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity on September 29, 2003. So I filed suit because they would not release me from jail. There was a state agency called Community Forensics that said I could not be released because I did not have housing and mental health treatment. I had basically severed all family ties. I seldom got commissary or a letter from family. My Uncle always sent a little something to me. I did get something from my family but it was not the support most of the inmates had. Unfortunately no one would take me in; I had nowhere to go, so I cooperated with the Community Forensics, a man that was very kind. He was replaced 5 years later by a woman that was very difficult. After the suit was filed and it was learned the federal government had a judgment against the Community Forensics or the jail for holding people in jail without treatment for lengthy periods of time. In fact jails are not hospitals, which is where the mentally ill needs to be. They claimed they had no room at the hospital. Louisiana has two state mental hospitals. Mississippi has less population and they have 5 state mental hospitals. Community Forensics presented me with a Conditional Release. I agreed to it as I felt I could do the 5 years’ probation. What I failed to realize that it said yearly contradictory hearings until I was found able. It was twelve years’ probation and they did not recommend release, but the Judge decided to release me from probation. To this day, I don’t know what I was doing to make them feel unsafe. It was like over time with the right treatment I got better. I didn’t break the law. I never knew what the outcome of my civil suit against the jail was since I was released August 1, 2005.

      I live an ordinary life in a small town. Everyone knows what I did and the people I did it too. I can only say I’m sorry so many times. For all the years that I had to go to court, only one victim and her family was present in court. She said I deprived her of a quality of life, but truthfully I did not know if she was a good student or had a desire to go to college or even to have a good future. I do know I did not know it was my niece. I did not know who I had shot at the time. I was married to that family for 14

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