Jan. 6 Detainee Pens Birthday Letter ‘To My Future Free Self: You Will Not Break’

UNIONVILLE, Tenn.—A handwritten, personal letter sits just inside the entrance to the McAbee home in this rural Tennessee town, awaiting the return of the man of the house.
Heartfelt and full of sage advice, the birthday letter is extra special because its author—Ronald Colton McAbee—wrote it from jail in the District of Columbia.
He has been held in pretrial detention for 468 days on Jan. 6 charges. Dec. 3 will mark his second birthday behind bars.
As McAbee awaits the outcome of his appeal for release on bond—now before the U.S. Court of Appeals—he offered his “future free self” a strong dose of encouragement….

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