I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A FIRM BELIEVER THAT "'JUSTICE PREVAILS"BUT I HAVE LEARNED THAT THERE IS NO JUSTICE....WHERE ARE THE TRUE LEADERS OF OUR COUNTRY? WHERE IS THE LEGAL SYSTEM THAT IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT US?

I HAVE A STORY TO TELL YOU.... AND I HOPE THAT YOU TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT ALL... A YOUNG MANS LIFE HANGS IN THE BALANCE HERE. A GOOD YOUNG MAN WHO IS ONLY 25 YEARS OLD.... BUT ONE, WHO HAS SEEN WAY MORE THAN MOST SEASONED, HARDENED MEN. PLEASE HELP ME TO SAVE MY SON. PLEASE HELP ME.

MY SON IS DANIEL. HE WAS BORN IN 1985 IN LAFAYETTE LOUISIANA. HE COMES FROM DIVORCED PARENTS AND WAS A CHILD GREATLY %u2018INTERUPTED%u2019 BY HIS PARENTS SEPARATION AND DIVORCE. AT AGE 11 HE THOUGHT HE WAS THE SOURCE, AS MOST CHILDREN DO, OF THE ANIMOSITIY WITHIN HIS FAMILY. HE TURNED TO DRUGS. FROM A YOUNG AGE HE FELT THAT HE HAD NO ONE.... AND YES, WHILE THIS WHOLE TIME HE DID HAVE US, HIS PARENTS, HE FELT ALONE. TIME WENT BY.. YEARS WENT BY... DANIEL'S ADDICTION TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ESCALATED AND IN 2004 HE WAS ARRESTED AND SPENT TWO YEARS IN OUR PARISH JAIL.... WITHIN MONTHS... HIS ADDICTION DEFEATED HIM AGAIN... HE WAS SENT TO REHABILIATION AND SPENT A YEAR IN A HALFWAY HOUSE... HE BEGAN COLLEGE AND WAS DOING REALLY WELL.. GRADES GOOD... MET A GIRL THAT HE FELL IN LOVE WITH... AND THEN HE RELAPSED. THIS IS WHERE THE STORY GETS REALLY MESSY.
HE WAS ARRESTED ONE NIGHT IN MONROE, LA. THIS WAS NOT A DRUG RELATED CHARGE, BUT A SIMPLE PULL-OVER BECAUSE HIS LICENSE PLATE WAS OBSTRUCTED. THIS WE BELIEVE WAS DONE PURPOSELY BY A LOCAL DRUG DEALER IN ORDER TO HAVE MY SON TAKEN OUT OF THE EQUATION. DANIEL WAS ARRESTED. HE NEARLY DIED IN OUACHITA PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER IN MONROE, LA., DUE TO THE HIGH CONTENT OF DRUGS IN HIS SYSTEM AND THE LACK OF MEDICAL CARE THAT WAS GIVEN TO HIM WHEN HE WAS BROUGHT IN. I WENT TO SEE HIM SEVERAL DAYS LATER AND EVEN AFTER THAT AMOUNT OF TIME HAD PASSED SINCE HIS ARREST, HE DOES NOT REMEMBER MY BEING THERE AND WAS STILL 'NOT COHERENT'. ON THE THIRD DAY OF BEING THERE... THEY ADDED AN 'ATTEMPTED ROBBERY' CHARGE!!!! THREE DAYS 'AFTER' HIS ARREST THEY ADDED THAT TRUMPED UP CHARGE TO HIS RECORD. FROM THIS POINT THINGS BEGIN TO SNOWBALL.
HE WAS KEPT IN A PORTION OF THIS JAIL FOR DOC IMMATES. THIS IS HARDENED CONVICTED CRIMINALS AND MURDERERS AND CHILD
MOLESTORS. MY SON WAS KIDNAPPED WITHIN THE PRISON WALLS... AND HELD CAPTIVE FOR OVER 3 DAYS BY 5 MEN! THREE DAYS!!!!! THEY BEAT MY SON TO WITHIN AN INCH OF HIS LIFE! THEY ASSAULTED HIM REPEATEDLY! NOTHING WAS DONE!!!!! NOTHING WAS DONE TO PROTECT MY SON
WHILE HE WAS IN THIS STATE FACILITY! HE WAS BEATEN AND ASSAULTED FOR OVER 73 HOURS.....NO GUARDS NOTED HIM BECAUSE HIS CAPTURERERS HAD HIM COVER HIS HEAD WITH A BLANKET WHEN GUARDS CAME BY ... THEY NEVER ASKED TO SEE HIS FACE! THEY NEVER
WONDERED WHERE MY SON WAS???? HE WAS BEING KILLED%u2026. TORTURED.... AND STARVED... DANIEL HAD LOST NEARLY 30 POUNDS IN THE THREE WEEKS THAT HE HAD BEEN THERE!! 30 POUNDS!!........... REPEATEDLY BY 5 CONVICTED CRIMINALS.... WHAT WAS EVER DONE ABOUT THIS??? NOTHING!!! THEY SHIPPED HIM OUT AND CLOSED THE FILE! MEANWHILE, MY SON IS BEATEN TO A BLOODY PULP! AS A MOTHER, I AM ENRAGED! AS A CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTRY, I AM ENRAGED! WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO MY SON NOW?
HE HAS SINCE BE SENT TO ANOTHER FACILITY AND WHILE THERE... WAS ACCUSED OF SMOKING MARIJUANA. HE TOLD ME THAT HE'S ONLY JUST WOKEN UP AND GONE INTO THE BATHROOM... WHERE HE WAS ACCUSED BY A GUARD. HE WAS DRUG TESTED THREE DIFFERENT TIMES ON THIS OCCASION... AND TEST NEGATIVE EACH TIME! YET HE IS BEING HELD IN A 6X6 JAIL CELL AND BEING SHIPPED OUT TO YET ANOTHER PRISION SOMEWHERE...THESE CHARGES HAVE BEEN REVERSED BY THE DEPT OF CORRECTIONS DUE TO LACK OF EVIDENCE.

MY SON'S INITIAL SENTENCE WAS TO HAVE RUN CONSECUTIVE .. THIS ALONE IS UNHEARD OF! THIS ALONE IS A INJUSTICE! MY SON IS NOT A MURDERER... MY SON IS NOT A CHILD MOLESTOR.... MY SON IS NOT A HOPELESS WRECK... HE IS A 25 YEAR OLD BOY WHO HAD A DRUG PROBLEM LIKE SO MANY OTHER YOUTH TODAY! MY SON DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE THE MEAL ON SOMEONES PLATE! I'VE COME TO YOU, BECAUSE I CAN NOT FIND ANYONE TO HELP ME. I'VE HAD A COUPLE OF ATTORNEYS REVIEW DANIELS RECORDS AND EVEN THEY SAY THAT THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A MESS... SUCH A COVER-UP! PLEASE HELP ME TO SAVE MY SON. PLEASE HELP ME BRING ATTENTION TO HIS CASE..... PLEASE HELP ME AS I HAVE NO WHERE ELSE TO TURN. I'M LOSING HIM. I READ HIS LETTERS AND I CAN FEEL IT... HE'S DYING IN THERE... I RAISED MY SON TO BELIEVE IN JUSTICE... BUT HE HAS GOTTEN NONE.... PLEASE HELP ME.EVEN IF ONLY TO HAVE SOMEONE GO INTO HIS FILE AND SEE ALL OF THE DISCREPANCIES........... THE INCOMPLETE PAPERWORK.......... THE DATES ARE WRONG.. THE SENTENCE IS WRONG.... ITS ALL WRONG YET NO ONE WILL TAKE THE TIME TO INVESTIGATE IT.. AND TO CORRECT IT. PLEASE HELP ME..... MY SON IS DYING.... AND I FEEL LIKE I AM DYING TOO.

THIS IS MY LAST HOPE%u2026. THAT SOMEONE OUT THERE WILL READ THIS AND BE ABLE TO HELP... PLEASE HELP DANIEL.

There is an image posted here of my son. This was taken 5 days after he escaped from the 5 inmates where he had been beaten and assaulted. His face is bruised and beaten, but these are only the ones that we can see. My son has been through far more than is warranted for his crime. I beg each of you, to please sign this petition, demanding that he be released to me now... and not 2014 as is their sentence. Please help me to save this young man. My Son.

HELP ME TO SAVE MY SON";

I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A FIRM BELIEVER THAT 'JUSTICE PREVAILS' .... BUT I HAVE LEARNED THAT THERE IS NO JUSTICE.... WHERE ARE THE TRUE LEADERS OF OUR COUNTRY? WHERE IS THE LEGAL SYSTEM THAT IS
SUPPOSED TO PROTECT US?I HAVE A STORY TO TELL YOU.... AND I HOPE THAT YOU TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT ALL... A YOUNG MANS LIFE HANGS IN THE BALANCE HERE. A GOOD YOUNG MAN WHO IS ONLY 25 YEARS OLD.... BUT ONE, WHO HAS SEEN WAY MORE THAN MOST SEASONED, HARDENED MEN. PLEASE HELP ME TO SAVE MY SON. PLEASE HELP ME.
MY SON IS DANIEL. HE WAS BORN IN 1985 IN LAFAYETTE LOUISIANA. HE COMES FROM DIVORCED PARENTS AND WAS A CHILD GREATLY %u2018INTERUPTED%u2019 BY HIS PARENTS SEPARATION AND DIVORCE. AT AGE 11 HE THOUGHT HE WAS THE SOURCE, AS MOST CHILDREN DO, OF THE ANIMOSITIY WITHIN HIS FAMILY. HE TURNED TO DRUGS. FROM A YOUNG AGE HE FELT THAT HE HAD NO ONE.... AND YES, WHILE THIS WHOLE TIME HE DID HAVE US, HIS PARENTS, HE FELT ALONE. TIME WENT BY.. YEARS WENT BY... DANIEL'S ADDICTION TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ESCALATED AND IN 2004 HE WAS ARRESTED AND SPENT TWO YEARS IN OUR PARISH JAIL.... WITHIN MONTHS... HIS ADDICTION DEFEATED HIM AGAIN... HE WAS SENT TO REHABILIATION AND SPENT A YEAR IN A HALFWAY HOUSE... HE BEGAN COLLEGE AND WAS DOING REALLY WELL.. GRADES GOOD... MET A GIRL THAT HE FELL IN LOVE WITH... AND
THEN HE RELAPSED. THIS IS WHERE THE STORY GETS REALLY MESSY.
HE WAS ARRESTED ONE NIGHT IN MONROE, LA. THIS WAS NOT A DRUG RELATED CHARGE, BUT A SIMPLE PULL-OVER BECAUSE HIS LICENSE PLATE WAS OBSTRUCTED. THIS WE BELIEVE WAS DONE PURPOSELY BY A LOCAL DRUG DEALER IN ORDER TO HAVE MY SON TAKEN OUT OF THE EQUASION. DANIEL WAS ARRESTED AND NEARLY DIED DUE TO THE HIGH CONTENT OF DRUGS IN HIS SYSTEM AND THE LACK OF MEDICAL CARE THAT WAS GIVEN TO HIM WHEN HE WAS BROUGHT IN. I WENT TO SEE HIM AND HE DOES NOT REMEMBER MY BEING THERE. ON THE THIRD DAY OF BEING THERE... THEY ADDED AN 'ATTEMPTED ROBBERY' CHARGE!!!! THREE DAYS 'AFTER' HIS ARREST THEY ADDED THAT TRUMPED UP CHARGE TO HIS RECORD. FROM THIS POINT THINGS BEGIN TO SNOWBALL.
HE WAS KEPT IN A PORTION OF THIS JAIL FOR DOC IMMATES. THIS IS HARDENED CONVICTED CRIMINALS AND MURDERERS AND CHILD
MOLESTORS. MY SON WAS KIDNAPPED WITHIN THE PRISON WALLS... AND HELD CAPTIVE FOR OVER 3 DAYS BY 5 MEN! THREE DAYS!!!!! THEY BEAT
MY SON TO WITHIN AN INCH OF HIS LIFE! THEY RAPED HIM REPEATEDLY! NOTHING WAS DONE!!!!! NOTHING WAS DONE TO PROTECT MY SON
WHILE HE WAS IN THIS STATE FACILITY! HE WAS BEATEN AND RAPED FOR OVER 73 HOURS.................. NO GUARDS NOTED HIM BECAUSE HIS CAPTURERERS HAD HIM COVER HIS HEAD WITH A BLANKET WHEN GUARDS CAME BY ... THEY NEVER ASKED TO SEE HIS FACE! THEY NEVER
WONDERED WHERE MY SON WAS???? HE WAS BEING KILLED%u2026. TORTURED.... AND RAPED........... REPEATEDLY BY 5 CONVICTED CRIMINALS.... WHAT WAS EVER DONE ABOUT THIS??? NOTHING!!! THEY SHIPPED HIM OUT AND CLOSED THE FILE! MEANWHILE, MY SON IS BEATEN TO A BLOODY PULP! AS A MOTHER, I AM ENRAGED! AS A CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTRY, I AM ENRAGED! WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO MY SON NOW?
HE HAS SINCE BE SENT TO ANOTHER FACILITY AND WHILE THERE... WAS ACCUSED OF SMOKING MARIJUANA. HE TOLD ME THAT HE'S ONLY JUST
WOKEN UP AND GONE INTO THE BATHROOM... WHERE HE WAS ACCUSED BY A GUARD. HE WAS DRUG TESTED THREE DIFFERENT TIMES ON THIS
OCCASION... AND TEST NEGATIVE EACH TIME! YET HE IS BEING HELD IN A 6X6 JAIL CELL AND BEING SHIPPED OUT TO YET ANOTHER PRISION
SOMEWHERE.... MY SON'S INITIAL SENTENCE WAS TO HAVE RUN CONSECUTIVE .. THIS ALONE IS UNHEARD OF! THIS ALONE IS A INJUSTICE! MY SON IS NOT A MURDERER... MY SON IS NOT A CHILD MOLESTOR.... MY SON IS NOT A HOPELESS WRECK... HE IS A 25 YEAR OLD BOY WHO HAD A DRUG PROBLEM LIKE SO MANY OTHER YOUTH TODAY! MY SON DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE THE MEAL ON SOMEONES PLATE! I'VE COME TO YOU, BECAUSE I CAN NOT FIND ANYONE TO HELP ME. I'VE HAD A COUPLE OF ATTORNEYS REVIEW DANIELS RECORDS AND EVEN THEY SAY THAT THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A MESS... SUCH A COVER-UP! PLEASE HELP ME TO SAVE MY SON. PLEASE HELP ME BRING ATTENTION TO HIS CASE..... PLEASE HELP ME AS I HAVE NO WHERE ELSE TO TURN. I'M LOSING HIM. I READ HIS LETTERS AND I CAN FEEL IT... HE'S DYING IN THERE... I RAISED MY SON TO BELIEVE IN JUSTICE... BUT HE HAS GOTTEN NONE.... PLEASE HELP ME.EVEN IF ONLY TO HAVE SOMEONE GO INTO HIS FILE AND SEE ALL OF THE DISCREPANCIES........... THE INCOMPLETE PAPERWORK.......... THE DATES ARE WRONG.. THE SENTENCE IS WRONG.... ITS ALL WRONG YET NO ONE WILL TAKE THE TIME TO INVESTIGATE IT.. AND TO CORRECT IT. PLEASE HELP ME..... MY SON IS DYING.... AND I FEEL LIKE I AM DYING TOO.

THIS IS MY LAST HOPE. THAT SOMEONE OUT THERE WILL READ THIS AND BE ABLE TO HELP... PLEASE HELP DANIEL.

My name is Rachel Evans and this petition is about my son, Daniel Hargett (DOC#509191). I ask that Daniel's sentencing be reviewed and changed to run concurrent rather than the present consecutive sentencing which I find unjust. He has been 'punished' enough.