Hi, everybody. This is Crystal Denise Clark. Y’all know my inmate number is 435064. I’m in the Valley of Death, begging our governor, Governor Whitmer. I’m begging you and pleading to you to do the right thing. You’ve been sitting here holding the process up. Let me sit here and suffer. I do not deserve to die. Look at the ladies in here dying every day, Governor. You have the power. You have the power to fix this and change this. You told me to put my clemency… [Audio malfunction] … letter that you wrote me that you told me to put it in, and everybody been trying to get in touch with you from the media, from my family, from advocates, and we’ve been ignored by you.
Nobody trying to make you a bad person, we just demanding you to do the right thing. I deserve to live. I got kids, Governor. I got grandbabies I haven’t met. Please, please do the right thing. That’s all we ask you, that you do the right thing. Do the right thing. Stop letting people die in here when you can help. The place is not safe for none of us. The mold is here, and on top of that, the statement that the prisoners – they put out. They not in my body. I’m highly allergic to it. I got medical records telling you I can’t [unclear] in it. I’m not healing at all. I don’t know what they’re telling you, Governor, but I’m asking you to do the right thing and come in here and see yourself. If you don’t believe it, come see me yourself.
If you don’t believe what’s on paper writing and what the doctors and specialists telling y’all, come see me yourself. Maybe it’d help you make your decision because I need you to do the right thing. I’m tired. I’m tired. The Governor of Michigan, Governor Whitmer, I’m tired of suffering in pain every day, fighting for my life – fighting for my rights – my freedom. I have been down for 15 years for something I didn’t do, 15 years not gonna… [Audio malfunction] …10 months, less than 10 months. Is it gonna hurt you to let me go? You could put me on house arrest, [unclear] whatever you want to do. I’m not a threat and let me get out to go get the right help. Let me go out and get healed; at least try to get back to myself. I know I’m not gonna go all the way back to myself, but at least — This load is killing me, taking me every day, every day.
I try to stay strong and do something: try to ignore it. Governor, I can’t keep on doing it. And I know if you don’t help me, I’ll be the next lady. I’ll be the next lady to lose — lose her life. Please don’t let that happen. Please do not let that happen. Please. They don’t know who body can handle and who can stay in mold — who can live in mold. There’s no such thing, that normal type of mold, when you got a lady sitting here suffering to test positive for it in my lungs, my ears, and it’s affecting my body and my breathing every day. And I’m getting denied health care; getting treated like I’m not even human when I try to get help. You should have seen the way they treat me in here, due to me speaking out. I got rights. We all got rights.
Please, I’m not trying to be rude and disrespect, but you have family and kids that you love. Think about your family and kids to see that woman begging you to help and make it to see her family and kids. You got to see her like this. Gotta live with this. And been living with it for 15 years. How you think my kids feel when they come up here and see they mama like this? Looking at my … [Audio malfunction ]… did she feel when she saw her daughter like this? And she been begging for help. As you been a mother you should understand. I’m not a threat, and I will hurt nobody. I’m asking everybody to help. Help before it’s too late. She has the power to do it, and she chooses not to. Having did nothing to the governor, but ask for help – for help. Please. Please, do the right thing. Please.
I should not even have to beg for somebody could save somebody’s life. I should not even have to beg you, but if I have to, that’s what I would do. I’m begging, asking you to do the right thing. Please do the right thing. You don’t have to worry about me, I’m telling you, I’m not a threat. I love people. I want help. I want help. Just let me get out and get the right care that I need, please, before it’s too late. Don’t let me die, Governor Whitmer, don’t let me die, please, do not let me die in this place. We are dying in here. Painting over it, calling theyselves coming in here to clean is not going to help it. It’s built into these walls and our water. Fool! You should see what they doing to us.
Do not kill me. Please. Please. I’m begging that I hear from you soon, and I’m begging that you do the right thing and you hear my voice. You got the proof right in front of you. Talk to the doctors and see the truth or send somebody you know to come see the truth. WHV [Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility] is not being honest to you. They making up lies about my health, making it seem like I’m crazy. I’m not crazy at all. Look what it’s doing to me. Look what it has done to me. I don’t even like looking at myself at all. It’s taking all my hair out. Don’t even like looking at myself. [Unclear] a blood nose bleed [unclear] and trouble breathing, and I fight for a breathing treatment. My chest hurt all day. Ears – can’t even hear out one of my ears. I can’t hear out, cause the one is swollen up like this; using the walker to walk. I don’t deserve this. I don’t deserve this. Body broke all out. Can’t get no help. As soon as I get over there, as soon as they see it’s me – you should see the way I get treated. I deserve to get treated just as well and right as others. That’s all I’m asking you. And may God bless you and your family.
And y’all out there, I need y’all to help to fight for me, fight to save Crystal Denise Clark’s life. Fight for her freedom! I got 10 months. 10 months. 10 months and they let people go — way more time than that, and everybody to me deserve. But 10 months you’ll let me sit here and die? 10 months? That’s sick and disgusting to me. That’s sick and disgusting to me when — You see the news. Your people see the news. You see how I’m looking. You got the message. Y’all got the power too, to help save me, save a life. Governor, I’m calling on you to do the right thing, that I’ll hear from you soon. That you would free me and I’d be in a hospital healing and get the hugs and loved ones, the babies, the grandbabies, my kids, my mother, my sister and brother they need me. Please, do the right thing. Please. Please. Please do the right thing. It’s not going to hurt you. It’s not going to hurt you. It’s not. It’s not about the money, it’s about my life. It’s about my life. It’s not about the lawsuit, it’s about my life. Save a life, please. Please. Do the right thing.
These commentaries are recorded by Prison Radio.
