Darryl Crenshaw

I’ve been incarcerated for about 16 years of a 78-year sentence. I’m responsible for the death of a woman I was involved with (God Bless The Dead). I’m not innocent. The loss of life was my fault, but it was not intentional. Hyped up media from Americas Most Wanted made a fair trial impossible. It didn’t help that I fled to Mexico and kept ending up in jail down there.

The two things I focus on the most in my life are origami and fighting for fair treatment here. Origami is by far what I spend the majority of my time doing and something I really want to share with more people. My mind has difficulty focusing which is only magnified by the paranoia felt when you’re surrounded by killers, rapists, robbers, scam artists, gangs, drugs, violence, and shady correctional officers. All in such a confined space. Origami relaxes me and helps block out the “crazy”. I feel accomplished when I figure something out for the first time like a tarantula or a man playing the violin.

I started selling items to inmates to send home to loved ones (Mystical Creatures: 3-headed dragons, unicorn, chimera, Pegasus. People: a man rowing a boat, a witch flying on a broomstick (maybe for some guy to send his ex-wife!?) a man playing a guitar. Animals: giraffes, lions, elephants, fox, all kinds of birds, and dinosaurs. Creeping crawlers: scorpion, praying mantas, and grasshoppers. Just about anything.), but I eventually started making keepsake boxes with hidden internal gears.

They have knobs that you turn and out the origami in spinning and rotating motions, along with a small mirror and drawer to store jewelry or “keepsakes”. I’ve been selling them to inmates as well, but I’d like to reach a larger demographic and donate half of each sale to charities. Try to put some good karma out there. Some of my boxes were in a local newspaper (The Hartford Current), having been in a local art show, but I haven’t really reached too big an audience.

My second focus is fighting for my rights in the prison system. Some people think filing lawsuits is something manipulative scam driven inmates do to cheat the system. Watch the news and see what the police get away with doing to innocent people…. just imagine what they get away with doing to guilty people in here. There are so many people (officers, medical and mental health staff), who come to work knowing that they don’t have to do their jobs because nobody cares what happens to us. You don’t see the abuse of power, physical abuse, psychological abuse, horrendous living conditions (especially in the box), and general disregard for human suffering on the TV shows that supposedly show what goes on in prison. I’m not going for that without a fight. That means fighting these people in federal court. I’m a hardheaded brother, but patient and I don’t judge. You can write or e-message me through Securus.

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• Incarcerated Since: 2008
• Sentence Received: 78 years
• Earliest Release: 2086

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