Isa: Dear Adamu, what's given me comfort lately i that so many people, inside and outside have been organizing and coming together to car for each other in this moment.

Protestor: And we'll figh together until we're all free!

Isa: I just want you to know how grateful I am for you.

I know how much you're putting a to speak out right now.

I'm learning so much from you, B Each time you tell us what's happening inside and what new demands you've gathered from your community.

Organizing like this makes me feel so close to you, almost like you're here, even though we haven't seen each other in months.

Every morning, me and your mom look at the COVID Tracker and see the cases skyrocketing at San Quentin and all over.

We're so anxious all the time wondering if the next email we g will tell us there are now cases in your housing unit.

I just hope all we're doing can somehow bring you and everyone home soon.

There's so many people out here fighting with y'all.

I love you, Big Head.

Please do everything you can to be safe, Isa.

Officer: It appears to me that we have enough credit for time served for immediate re Isa: Yes, he does.

I verified that with the Department of Corrections.

Adamu: Dear Isa, how can I explain the complexity of that moment?

The pure joy of getting your lif immediately followed by an overwhelming sadness and anxiety of leaving all of your best friends in a community that supported yo through the winter of your life.

I can't help but think of Rahsan, Edmund, Lonnie, and so many more who were so much a part of my freedom journey, but won't be there with me at th and who continue to walk their o (crowd cheering)