TNT 2.0: Episode 85 with Tessie Castillo and Terry Robinson - CRIMSON LETTERS

Hello TNT listeners. Thank you for plugging into this episode. It’s
a unique one; one I had the honour of hosting with two incredible
human beings, Tessie Castillo and Terry Robinson, also known as
Chanton.
To record this episode, Chanton who is incarcerated on North
Carolina’s Death Row, currently fighting a wrongful conviction,
needed to dial in via conference through Tessie’s phone, in order
to join us. Twice. Why twice? Because there is a 15-minute limit on
phone calls.
I’ve chosen to leave the audio running throughout the entire
conversation so that you could receive the full emotional
experience that Tessie and I got to experience.

Tessie Castillo is an author, journalist and public speaker who
specializes in stories on criminal justice, drug policy, prison
reform and racial equity. She co-wrote her first book, Crimson
Letters: Voices from Death Row, with four men serving death
sentences in North Carolina, whom she met while volunteering at
North Carolina’s Central Prison in 2014.


Chanton, is a member of Tessie’s writing program, and when not
writing stories to challenge the stereotype of people on Death
Row, Chanton unwinds in the pages of fantasy books or hosts
Dungeons & Dragons role-playing games. He is currently
working on an urban fantasy novel and his memoir. His writing can
be found on the blog, Walk In Those Shoes.


To learn more about Tessie Castillo: https://tessiecastillo.com/


To find Terry Robinson (Chanton) and his works:
https://walkinthoseshoes.com/





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