Leah Henderson wrote these words and requested that they be posted here on Mandy's blog:

March 29, 2012

Why Me?

So, this can't normally be said in jail: everything has changed.
For those of you who don't know me, I am Mandy's co-accused and I've been on a maximum security range at Vanier for the last 100 days. I've been approximately 50 feet from Mandy (though not allowed to nor able to communicate with her) and the day-to-day that you've read about on this blog is very similar to what my experience has been.

April 1 2012

Hi everyone,

So it seems there's been a bit of a hold up with the blog, and that it has been causing a bit of stress. Don't worry! Everything is still fine -- I have just run into a logistical snag with the mail system here. I dictated this post over the phone.

On March 11 I sent out my 9th post, entitled Women, the Police and International Days, but it was never put in the mail. I know this because on march 23 I was given a large stack of letters -- some of them had been received by the jail at the end of February! and a couple of them were addressed to Leah -- and there it was. So I sent it out again on march 23. I assumed it was an honest mistake, however as of today Ali still hasn't received it.

At the moment I'm being distracted by the bad pop music coming from the TV as well as being bad, it's muffled because once again we're on lockdown and it's coming through the door of my cell. My cellie got out this morning so I'm all alone in here, you'd think that would help me focus on work but instead it seems I'm distracted by the lack of distraction.

It looks like we might be in here all day. All day I will be forced to look at the sticky bun sitting on my window sill. Will I eat it? Or will I save it for later? Such are the big questions in the air here in cell 12, unit 2F.