Anne M. Tallegrand-Cajuste, CPRP, CPS 

 Anne Tallegrand-Cajuste, Haitian-American, Brooklyn native

 Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner, Mental Health Counselor, working with the homeless and others within community mental health settings, she has devoted the past 10 years to the New York City’s most underserved populations.  In her current role at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY she is a supervisor in her department and also provides direct care, to youth and adults with persistent psychiatric disabilities in an in-patient setting

In her capacity as Consultant/Trainer, Anne Tallegrand-Cajuste is a NYS Office of Mental Health, Certified Preventing and Managing Crisis Situations (PMCS) Trainer, Certified Master Trainer in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) and Suicide Alertness for Everyone (SafeTALK) Trainer. Anne Tallegrand-Cajuste has been called upon to consult and train mental health providers in the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria. 

As a Christian Life Coach, she utilizes the Word of God and both professional and personal experience to assist individuals in formulating practical strategies to motivate change, achieve goals and find inner peace through spiritual healing.

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Happy holidays to all my listeners! I hope everyone around the world is doing their best to be the best version of themselves. These are challenging times, and it's important for us to find inner peace before we can bring joy to others in our lives. I want to express my gratitude to all my listeners as I continue to be open and authentic with my thoughts. We are not perfect, but we all share a special gift we each have something unique that sets us apart. It's important to appreciate and embrace our individuality.

In this episode, I want to provide an update on the passing of my oldest sister and how I am moving forward in life while taking care of my younger siblings. I hope that everyone can enjoy this podcast and connect with the topics I discuss. Thank you for being the best part of the Front Rowe with Jackie Podcast.

In loving memory of my beloved older sister, Angela Delores Rowe.

It’s, hard to say! Good bye. It’s extremely heavy on my heart to even share the sad passing of my sister's who departed on September 26, just before her 64th birthday. My family is devastated and in a state of shock. We, never anticipating that we would lose her so suddenly. Angela was a pillar of strength and the matriarch of our family. We are still grasping with the overwhelming shock and trying to make sense of what has happened. While they say that you are now in a better place, we can only hope that your soul rests in eternal peace. I love you !!!!! You are Missed. Gone but never will you be forgotten 💔🕊️

Falsely Imprisoned for 23 Years: Now He’s Received $7 Million

The payout “doesn’t settle what I went through,” said Derrick Hamilton, who accused the police of fabricating evidence.

Photograph by Dana Lixenberg for The New Yorker

Derrick Hamilton was wrongfully convicted of murder, and spent more than two decades trying to prove his innocence.

Derrick Hamilton’s legal education began in 1983, when he was seventeen and in the jail for teen-age boys on Rikers Island. He’d been an enthusiastic student as a child—his family called him Suity, because he liked to wear a suit to school. But in high school he’d begun skipping classes and getting into trouble.

At fifteen, he was charged with robbery and sentenced to sixty days in jail. The arrests continued, for petty larceny, assault, criminal use of a firearm. Then, in March of 1983, a bread deliveryman was fatally shot near Lafayette Gardens, the public-housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where Hamilton lived, and he was charged with the murder. He insisted that he had not done it, and entered a plea of not guilty.

His father, a livery-cab driver, hired a lawyer named Candace Kurtz to represent him, and she urged him to start studying in the jail’s law library, so that he could better understand his predicament. Hamilton is now fifty, tall and heavyset, with a shaved head and a thin scar running down the right side of his scalp. “I took it seriously,” he recalled recently, “because here’s some stranger saying, ‘Hey, listen. Get out of wherever you’re at. Wake up, kid, this is real.’ ” He started spending time in the library, and eventually taught himself enough criminal law to become one of the most skilled jailhouse lawyers in the country.

But, in the fall of 1983, two months after Hamilton turned eighteen, a jury found him guilty. He was given thirty-two years to life for the murder and for an earlier, unrelated gun charge, and was sent to Elmira Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison near the Pennsylvania border. There he earned a high-school-equivalency diploma and took a class on how to conduct legal research. In 1985, he was sent to Siberia, as inmates call Clinton Correctional Facility, which is twenty miles from the Canadian border. In the law library there, he met a group of veteran jailhouse lawyers, one of whom gave weekly tutorials on criminal procedure.

There is no job description for a jailhouse lawyer. It’s an occupation born of desperation: most prisoners cannot afford lawyers, and are eligible for a free attorney only for their first appeal. After that, they have to either learn the law themselves or find a jailhouse lawyer to help them.

Paul Clark,

Holding a gun made 15-year-old Paul Clark feel like a bigger man, he remembers. He was a slightly-built kid—5’4” and 118 pounds. The weapon commanded the respect of others on the street. Clark insists never intended to use it. But then he did, and a 17-year-old named Keith Thomas was killed.

Clark was 18 in August 1980 when he shot Thomas twice after a fight at a block party near his Brooklyn home, resulting in a 33 ⅓ year prison sentence. It took years for Clark to acknowledge his guilt and remorse, writing a letter of apology to the Thomas family. “It’s a decision I regret for the rest of my life,” he said.

But three years after he was sent to an upstate prison, Clark was brought to Brooklyn to stand trial for a different crime, the attempted robbery and murder of a taxi driver. He was stunned by the accusation by a police detective and a single witness.

“The only thing I know from that crime is what I learned at trial,” says Clark, who still maintains his innocence today. The judge called him a “baby-faced killer” and added 25 years to Clark’s prison sentence, for a total of 58 years.

“I didn’t have any hope,” Clark said, confronted with the possibility that he may die in prison.

Natalie Burke

MSW. DBH Candidate

CEO W.E.L.L Athletic Development

Twenty years ago I was convicted of a non violent marijuana related charge. I served my sentence of 120 days (4months), 3 yrs probation , community services, and paid my restitution. I paid my debt to society and fulfilled my obligation to the justice system. In the interim, I developed a deep spiritual relationship with the Most High, I did tons of self development including pursuing a higher education. I did a holistic 180 turn for the better. My career and personal life metamorphosed into a far better version of myself. It took a lot of hard work and discipline to not return to my old life when there was so much temptation. Then to my surprise in the middle of the night, my son and I had dinner and we’re watching a movie, I.C.E. knocks on my door and callously locks me up in front of my son.

I was detained in a federal facility for 18 months fighting to stay in the only country I had known. During this time I realized my calling to become a Social Worker. In the Federal detention center I provided resources and support to the women I was locked up with. After being released I attended Arizona State University and received my Bachelor’s and Masters degrees in Social Work. In 2016, the State of Arizona granted me my rights back and set aside my criminal record. I was suppose to be freed from any disability that a felony conviction would pose. Apparently the issue that I thought was reconciled and left in my past was not according to the federal government. Unbeknownst to me my charges left me deportable. The only thing that can help me to regain my freedom is a gubernatorial pardon.

Jan 26, 2018 the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency granted me a favorable recommendation for a gubernatorial pardon. I have waited 5 long hard years in hopes that the former governor Doug Ducey would grant me the pardon. On December 30,2022 he denied my pardon application. As a result At a moments notice I can be deported back to Jamaica. I came to this country legally as a permanent resident in April of 1979 at the age of 3. I have lived as an American for 43 years.

Marijuana is now legal in the state of Arizona, it is disheartening that what I was criminalized for has now become a billion dollar industry. Most of the people capitalizing from cannabis don’t look like me however, the people incarcerated for it do. I am compelled to share my story in hopes that someone in a position of power will help me attain a pardon so that my family can remain together. I am unable to work, have no access to health insurance, I had a stroke a few months back. It would be an injustice to let my son be punished by taking his mom away. I never committed murder and I deserve a second chance.

Although I did the time I was sentenced to, day after day my mind continues to be imprisoned by the fear of being deported. My heart is wounded by the betrayal of a country that I love, yet I feel so unloved by.

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