The image above is of Alexei Navalny's cell in a Siberian prison where he spent his last days before Putin made sure he killed him.  Can’t stop thinking about Navalny, What a horrible place for him to die – away from his family, alone in a cold bare cell, sick and under nourished, no heat and no comfort from a blanket or a pillow or a mattress. Nothing in his cell to give him comfort – like books, Music, photos, access to email or tv, no visitors allowed, the harshest of environments. An honorable man who stood strong in the face of violence, distain and the ever-present and near possibility of injury and death.
In many ways, his situation reminded me of John Calvin’s. Both ended up in eerily similar places and circumstances they never deserved, both whistleblowers on systems of corruption and injustice (see John's Open Letter to KY State Leaders published in the Louisville Courier Journal https://www.justiceforjohnbuckley.com/johns-open-letter-to-ky-gov-beshear-ky-doc-commissioner-crews-and-ky-atty-general-cameron/ . Because John is a Whistleblower, he has been in solitary for 16 months now under illegal charges in the oldest prison in Kentucky—KSP—where the Hole is literally a dungeon that is infested with Mice and roaches. No circulating heat. Feces cover the walls where mentally ill inmates have thrown them because they’ve been driven insane by the isolation. John literally has as little as Navalny had in his cell and their cells look very similar in this picture except that there is NO window in John's cell. 
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to say the John is the same as Navalny, that he is as great of a man and a world leader, and so you should admire him just the same. But I do ask for your empathy and your concern for human beings that are treated worse than animals. And especially the wrongly accused and convicted.  I do think of John in the same way that I thought of Navalny when I knew he was in that Gulag in Siberia. Under harsh conditions that most men and women would buckle under and not be able to keep living, at least with any kind of mind left. But like Navalny, John has somehow managed to keep his sanity and to stand up for what is right, to stand up for others, even as it has cost him his freedom inside & outside prison walls.
I worry for his health & his life and his lawyers do too, as we continue to move forward with a civil rights suit against the prison & KY DOC, as well as pursuing his exoneration. He is being retaliated against by prison administrators & guards. If you have a supportive message for John, please leave it below!    

We are also raising funds for a Private Investigator we've hired to go back to Lexington and find new evidence never presented in either the trial or the appeals that will allow us to appeal back to the state.  John's military funds are quickly dwindling, there is not an endless supply and the family is doing as much as they can.  If you are able, would you please consider giving to this fund strictly used for these legal support fees?  Here is the link:  https://www.justiceforjohnbuckley.com/the-fundraiser/      I

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