UPDATED: September 29, 2023
(c) George T. Wilkerson 2023 (Hooded Mary)
(c) George T. Wilkerson 2022 (Love Nun)
Bone Orchard: Reflections on Life Under Sentence of Death Death row prisoner George T. Wilkerson and criminology professor Robert Johnson explore the psychological experiences unique to those serving death sentences. Using essays, short stories, and poetry grounded in first-hand experience as well as interviews and surveys with other death row prisoners, Bone Orchard examines the ways a death sentence poses existential burdens on the condemned and those who love them.
The Invisible Crayon: a Creation Story – by George T. Wilkerson
Books by George: “Interface: Poems”
You can write to George:
George Wilkerson #0900281, Central Prison, P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131
Link to “My Writings” on the Death Penalty
Links and Recordings
Alfred Rivera – NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.
“A Mother’s Love” Jason Hurst
Faith & Death Row Part 1 -Featuring Terrance, Fernando, & John M.
Terrance D. Campbell #0064125, Central Prison, P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131
Fernando Garcia #0702066, Central Prison, P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131
Faith & Death Row – Part 2
JJ – The Lonely Prison Man, Essay – Joy and Kindness, and Untitled.
The Invisible Crayon: a Creation Story – by George T. Wilkerson
Books by George: “Interface: Poems”
“Bone Orchard: Reflections on Life Under the Sentence of Death”
George T. Wilkerson #0900281, Central Prison, P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131
FILM: Racist Roots – Origin of North Carolina’s Death Sentence
Jason Hurst – IDRNC – Kindness on Death Row
Jason Hurst #0509565, Central Prison, P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131
James Jaynes #0206197, Central Prison, P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131
Amazing Grace (click this link) Thank you Terrance for singing this.
Links for 2023 & 2022 are after the Recordings.
April 3, 2023 – The men are waiting on all the legal forms to be signed, and entered into the system, and if all goes right… We will be recording the men “Inside Death Row: NC” again, soon. It is my hope these will be done on ZOOM, so the quality of the calls should be better. The guys have stayed in touch and JJ has wrote a piece to be recorded; I have waited because I really want it to be in his voice.
2/27/23 – No New Recordings for now (see Feb. 10th below). I have received texts from “Inside Death Row: NC” and the guys are going to start writing.
February 10th, 2023 – Message from TC – “Use of the phone and tablets. This notice is to inform you that you are not permitted to conduct the following with phones are (sic) Tablets. conducting any kind of interviews, Pod Casts, seminars or to conduct business of any kind. Disciplinary action and suspension a will be implemented. Please be reminder the calls and messages are monitored.”
This situation is being discussed, and the guys are talking to their legal representatives. As soon as this is cleared up, we hope to continue with our recordings “Inside Death Row: NC”.
IDRNC – When looking for someone on YouTube, it will be their first name and IDRNC – (“Inside Death Row: NC.”)
Recordings: 2023
Terry Robinson #0349019 Is allowed contacts through the http://www.gettingout.com website offered by GTL & NCDPS.
Terry Robinson – Walk in Those Shoes
Book: “Inside Voices From Death Row”
Terrance D. Campbell #0064125
Is allowed contacts through the www.gettingout.com website
offered by GTL & NCDPS.
Mr. Campbell is located at the Central Prison
facility in Raleigh, NC. The facility began offering the
offenders on Death Row text messaging (send/receive)service
in April, 2022. Mr. Campbell welcomes all who are interested.
Simply download the site, follow the directions and begin an immediate
firsthand experience of life on Death Row with Mr. Campbell.
James E. Jaynes #0206197
Is allowed contacts through the www.gettingout.com website
offered by GTL & NCDPS.
Mr. Jaynes is at Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina
Recorded story “JJ & the little Magpie“
2/8/23 -If you would like to learn more about Death Row here are some suggested readings:
Right Here, Right Now : Life Stories from America’s Death Row
I Woke Up Before I Died: Paul Brown
Bone Orchard: Reflections on Life Under the Sentence of Death: George Wilkerson & Robert Johnson
Interface: Poems: George Wilkerson
LINKS: 2023
Walk in Those Shoes – Prison Writing and Expression
“Direct from Death Row” – Marcus Mitchell
“What’s it like to be an Editor of a Prison Newspaper?” – Philip Vance Smith, II Nov. 10, 2022
2022 – LINKS
LINKS: are in RED
Video: Racist Roots (NCCADP)
North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Learning to Die – Lyle C. May (reads)
Letter From Alim – Michael J. Braxton (reads)
Boondocks Country – Terry Robinson (reads)
Limp Gray Fur – George Wilkerson (reads)
Terry Robinson – Walk in Those Shoes
UO Today Interview: Sister Helen Prejean – Oct. 27, 2022
Countries that have abolished Death Penalty since 1976
Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America’s Death Row – Edited by Lynden Harris. “Right Here, Right Now collects the powerful, first-person stories of dozens of men on death rows across the country. “
I Woke Up Before I Died – Paul Brown
Inside: Voices from Death Row is a collection of personal narratives by four men incarcerated on North Carolina’s Death Row–Michael J. Braxton, Lyle C. May, Terry Robinson, and George Wilkerson–with essays by editor Tessie Castillo, a foreword by Sister Helen Prejean, and an afterword by journalist Phoebe Zerwick.
Bone Orchard: Reflections on Life Under Sentence of Death Death row prisoner George T. Wilkerson and criminology professor Robert Johnson explore the psychological experiences unique to those serving death sentences. Using essays, short stories, and poetry grounded in first-hand experience as well as interviews and surveys with other death row prisoners, Bone Orchard examines the ways a death sentence poses existential burdens on the condemned and those who love them.
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