Day 5 – The Interest Builds

Sierra LaPayLyn now sits in prison, waiting for the Michigan court system to come to their senses, hoping for mercy. Unknown to her, crowds of supporters begin to build.

In one house somewhere in the "fancy" section of Saginaw, someone decides to do something -

Judy: Hey Lars, this woman, Sierra LaPayLynn, she got a raw deal.

Lars: Really, me being unemployed from the auto industry – I was thinking it might be a good idea to see someone else suffering even more than I am. It makes me feel better.

Judy: No, that can’t be right. There must be someway for us to feel like we’re doing OK in the amazing city of Saginaw, without seeing someone’s mother suffer for something she did thirty years ago.

Lars: Sure it is. Would Sammy Davis Jr. tell us wrong?

Judy: OK. (But thinking silently to herself – “Yes, he would you worthless jerk – I’m going to write an impassioned letter to the Saginaw Judge William Crane.)

The writer of this blog now stops this dialog interchange. Lars and Judy are boring people and will never appear in this blog again. But, in general you can see that they represent people across the county who are concerned and are writing into Michigan officials.

In the meantime, Sierra decides to take a desperate gamble. She needs to figure a ways to make her cause know to the public. She realizes that it is by spreading the word of the grave injustice perpetrated upon her, her cause can be aided.

Late at night she makes a collect phone call to one of the local media outlets. She waits as the news anchor debates paying for the collect call.

News Anchor Irwin Link: OK, I’ve put you on my expense account. What’s on your mind “Escapee Parent”?

Sierra: Why do you have to stick me with that title? I’m dealing with a tough situation here. This isn't a comedy act, prisons are brutal places.

NAIL: It sounds funny to me, so we’re going to run with it. What do you care? They don’t let you watch television there in the Women’s Holding Interment Prison of Eastern Michigan (wonderful WHIP-EM) at Herring Valley do they?

Sierra: Yes, they do. Everyone's favorite show is Prison Break on Fox (True - it really is a hit in prisons across the county – you’d think they wouldn’t encourage that, but people have to watch something and how many episodes of Big Brother can anyone be subjected to anyway? And don’t get me started on the entire Amazing Race. It was boring after the first seas… sorry the writer watches too much TV and really needs to get out more).

NAIL: So are you calling to whine about how mistreated you’ve been, because that makes great listening. People eat that stuff up. Imagine, you hate being in prison.

Sierra: No, although it is pretty bad in here. I have something else in mind.

NAIL: I know, you want to beg forgiveness for all your crimes and confess to new ones.

Sierra: No, it’s none of that, by gosh. I’m going back to being folkie and I’m going to run for the office of Mayor of herring Valley.

Will Sierra LaPayLynn actually run for mayor of Herring Valley? Will the writer even continue on with this story line? Every series goes through a bad episode after a certain amount of time. Just look at Lost, most of the third season went nowhere and whole thing about Michael being gone for an entire year, what was that about? Besides the budge for this blog is next to nothing.

Disclaimer: Admittedly with was the weakest bong entry so far (this is still a young blog, so there's plenty of time for worse) but think of it as a transitional episode. Still notice again there was never once a mention of Susan LeFevre in this blog. She is in an actual women’s prison in Huron Valley, is frightened and worried about the well being of her family for a mistake she made at nineteen. All with a sentence she didn’t deserve. If you’ve already written to Judge Crane at the address below, you could encourage your family and friends to write too.

Honorable William A. Crane
Saginaw County 10th Circuit Court
111 S. Michigan Avenue
Saginaw, Michigan 48602

Reference Case No. 74-00284-FY

Another suggestion, just to the good citizens of Saginaw. If you really are that heck bent (family rated blog here) on senseless punishment, why not left Susan LeFevre out of prison and force her to be Mayor of Saginaw. Make her live there and run things or would they finally consider that to be cruel and unsual punishment?

Just a suggestion.