376780

It offended me to have to write the number on the outside of the envelope – 376780 – but, I wrote it. If it will help this card to get to Mr. Kelly Meggs any faster by writing this number, I will do it. It didn’t make sense not to. The mailroom workers would be sorting mail for more than 400 inmates. A clerk couldn’t possibly know each one by memory. Forcing them to look him up would only slow it down. Writing the word “prisoner,” in the alternative seemed worse.

I’m too young to have lived through World War II. I have never known an inmate. And I missed my opportunity to be assigned to represent Guantanamo detainees. But, like many of you, I know “Les Miserables” and the way the number haunts Jean Valjean.

I have previously asked you to write a card to the January 6 “Oath Keepers” who are held over pending trial. Asked you because it is difficult for me, as an attorney, but representing none of the defendants, to write to them.

I am asking you, again, to do so because, in particular, Mr. Kelly Meggs is in a rough patch, basis a lack of legal representation (see my recent blog, “SOS Kelly Meggs”) with an upcoming trial date of July 11.

If you wouldn’t mind, will you find ten minutes and drop a card or a note to the “Oath Keeper” defendants held over in the Washington, D.C. jail?

As follows:

Mr. Kelly Meggs (DCDC #376780)

Correctional Treatment Facility

1901 E Street, S.E.

Washington, D.C. 20003

Also:

Mr. Kenneth Harrelson

DCDC #377692

(same address)

And:

Ms. Jessica Watkins

DCDC #376520

(same address)

Thank you.