ASKING EVERYONE TO SIGN , Mr. George Martorano, IS A MEMBER OF TSDLYB HE EDUCATE OTHERS INSIDE THE WALLS.who is serving his 31st year of a Life Without Parole Sentence for a 1st time, non-violent drug offense. http://www.change.org/petitions/president-barack-obama-grant-group-...
george martorano #12973-004 FCI COLEMAN MEDIUM
P.O. BOX 1032
COLEMAN, FL 33521
George Martorano
12973-004
Life in Prison
George and John are co-founders of We Believe Group
July 11, 2007 - Creative Loafing Tampa (FL)
Second Life
Sentenced To Life For Drug Smuggling, George Martorano Spent Decades In Prison With No Hope For Release. Then John Flahive Answered His Call.
By Alex Pickett
Every holiday season, there's a tradition at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Central Florida, 20 miles south of Ocala. During the month of December, prison officials set up a large holiday backdrop painted with a Christmas tree, wreath and brick fireplace, partially concealing the grey cinderblock wall in a corner of the visiting room. Families and couples line up to have portraits taken with their incarcerated dads and husbands and sons. Smiles are plentiful, if a little hollow.
On a cloudless afternoon in December 2006, two men -- one in a plaid shirt and blue jeans, the other in prison-issued olive drab -- walk up for their turn. John Flahive, 50, glares at the camera, fierce and determined; the inmate, 57-year-old George Martorano, shorter and slightly stooped from a hernia, looks ahead with the weariness of a man who has spent the last 23 years of his life in prison. The two clasp hands.
For the other inmates and their families, the photos are an attempt to relive, if for just a few moments, past holidays spent together on the outside. But all Flahive and Martorano have ever known are the bonds forged in this sterile room, eating cheap food from the vending machines and sitting too long on uncomfortable chairs.
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