![]() They wanted us to fill out the questionnaire. When we came out of it, we got on the computer, and they had the Clemency Project 2014 on there. In May of 2014 there was a stabbing, and so they put us on lockdown for about a month. They transferred me to a place called McCreary, that’s in Pine Knot, Kentucky. It could happen to anybody at that place. Because I had high blood pressure and cholesterol, they moved me to another penitentiary. We got sentenced there in ’07, and I might have almost given them a year there. I tried so hard to get out of there, and I couldn’t. He said, “Come over here ‘cause somebody’s about to get stabbed.” As soon as we got on the other side, the guy got stabbed in the throat. Another guy from out of Washington comes over and says, “Are you the guy from Washington?” I say yes. Me and an older guy are walking the track. My first day, we get off the bus, we get seen, we get screened, we go to our block. I’m a nonviolent person sent in with a bunch of lions and wolves. I’ve never had any violence in my jacket. Big Sandy we called it Killer Mountain when I got there. I ended up in the worst penitentiary in the BOP. I felt like the world had crashed down on me. Five days later, they called me back and Judge Williams said his hands was tied and that he had to give me life under the law. They sent me to the supermax up near Baltimore. He told the prosecutor, “That’s a cruel and unusual punishment.” So he sentenced me to 324 months and told them if they didn’t like it to appeal it. That meant that if I was found guilty of a certain count that I would receive life in prison because of the three strikes from my previous crimes. My defense for my trial was entrapment.Įven before I was found guilty, the prosecutor slid an envelope to me and my lawyer that said 851 with the enhancement papers. He was working with the agents the whole time. I made those transactions because he was there for me when my sister died. He called me saying his family was in trouble, asking if I could help him out. I walked to my cell and I put up my sign so no one could see in, and I got on my knees and prayed, and I thanked God. He was one of the main informants on the case in 2004. The barber was with me just about every day after my sister died. I met a guy then who was the barber on the compound. She was driving down to see me, and her truck turned over. In 1990, I had been locked up for cocaine. ![]() They told me I was charged with conspiracy to sell cocaine, with the guys whose clothing store was next door to my barber shop. They were looking for drugs, guns, whatever they could find that would tie me into a drug conspiracy. They lay my wife down in the basement because she was getting her clothes ready for work, and they started just ransacking the house. They lay me down on the floor in the living room. My son and daughter, one was an infant and my son who was 3, they were asleep. It was one of the coldest days of the year that day. They ran in with their infrareds and lay everybody down. Before they could knock the door down, I opened it for them. Ray was 12 years into a life sentence for distribution of cocaine and crack cocaine while in possession of a firearm.ĭecember 16, 2004, the FBI, DEA, and county police, at about 5:45 a.m., attempted to knock my door in. President Obama commuted Ray’s sentence on August 3, 2016.
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