So, this was the second day of TREPAC and Legislative Management Team meetings, and the day ended with our TREPAC Trustees meeting. This is a photo of the 2020 TREPAC Trustee Pledge Class, knocking it out of the park with their own rendition of "TREPAC Sexy!" We are ready to hit it with the series of elections coming up this year, lots of stuff going on, issues that will make a difference to property owners and REALTORS® alike. And this incoming class is all worked up to get out the words and make this a really successful year. It is really a great bunch of people that I get to volunteer with, and I cannot think of too many things I would rather be doing with my time!In 1990, 18 year old Kendall Gibson was convicted of robbery, abduction, and gun charges and sentenced to 47 years in the Greensville Correctional Center in Virginia. And for more than 10 years he's been in a 8-by-10-foot isolation cell reserved for the most violent prisoners. He spends 23 hours a day in the tiny cell and gets to spend one hour per day outside. Gibson hasn't spent a decade in isolation because he's violent, he's there because he refuses to cut his hair. And it's for religious reasons. Gibson is a Rastafarian, he wears the religions trademark long dreadlocks. But according to a prison rule implemented in 1999, Gibson's refusal to trim them means he has to live in isolation. At least 40 other prisoners were confined when the law went into effect. Nobody knows how many there are today, prison officials refuse to divulge that information.
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