Defeated

My name is Christopher Roy. I’m incarcerated at MECC and I recently just found out that DOC removed the good time bill from the senate and I find this frustrating cause there are some of us in prison really trying to do good and get home to see our kids and loved ones before it is to late. It is aggravating when you hear this because it’s not right. How can the DOC force a senate to do something only to keep them making money off of us. I understand I did something wrong and I have to be punished and I’ve accepted that but I’m serving 85% on my first time down for handing a cashier a note and then apologizing to them. I’m getting my bachelor’s degree and I work Monday thru Friday and go to church and take programs. All I want is to get out in time to see my oldest daughter graduate high school and that bill would have given me that chance. I still would have served 8 yrs flat. I just want to have the chance to be credited a good time for the things I’m doing to change my life and be a better citizen. I was not a career criminal. I had a drug problem and got into a desperate situation and did something incredibly stupid and that’s on me but as quick as people are to punish us for a crime, I do not see anybody trying to help us when we do good. We are the outcasts in prison. Some people do not care and are just continuing down the same path, but the ones doing something different to better themselves are asking for a chance, please…