WE ARE TEAM JODI

With over 11 million page views & well over 7 million visitors since 2012 — December 16th 2024 marks the 12th anniversary of our Jodi Arias Is Innocent .com website launch.

So with Christmas just a few days away – I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support over the past 12 years – and thank you in advance for your continued support moving forward through 2025 and beyond.

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Here is Jodi’s Christmas Message:

“It’s Christmas!”

Hi All!

I’m feeling very grateful for all I’ve been given. Thank you for filling my 2024 with your generosity and love. May you have an amazing Christmas and a happy New Year!

Much Love,
<3 — Jodi Arias

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To finish off this festive update, here’s Jodi’s evergreenly awesome rendition of “O Holy Night.”:

Enjoy!

And Remember folks… as I always say – each day that passes takes us one day closer to Jodi’s release date.

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I wish you a very Trump-tastic Christmas, and a safe, peaceful, prosperous & awesome-filled 2025.

SJ
Team Jodi #WINNING <<<

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ArtByJodiArias.com – UPDATE

Jodi’s personal efforts to raise money for her appeals continue through the production of her art, which is sold at ArtbyJodiArias.com. Her art admin supports her efforts by running this “side hustle” of sorts on her behalf and taking none of the funds. The time and effort he devotes to this process (filing the taxes, trips to the post office every week to ship art) are an invaluable contribution.

If you are interested in another way to contribute to the cause, any purchase at ArtbyJodiArias.com is a legitimate way to support Jodi. You can also check out Jodi’s art on Instagram @ArtbyJodiArias.

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From Jodi:

Hello, hello, hello!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year again and there’s a Black Friday sale at ArtbyJodiArias.com that goes from today, November 28th, through December 15th!

Get 25% off EVERYTHING listed — prints, postcards, and original art — by entering the code save25 at checkout. (This equates to $475 off my original drawing Nothing to Fear, by the way.)

Sales are kind of rare on my site so take advantage while you can. If I controlled the business, which I don’t, I’d have all kinds of sales.

I hope you enjoy a peaceful Thanksgiving Thursday!

If you’re reading this from outside the U.S. and don’t celebrate this holiday, take a few moments anyway to appreciate what you have while you have it. And know that I’ll be here, feeling grateful for YOU!

Jodi

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ArtByJodiArias.com – UPDATE

Jodi’s personal efforts to raise money for her appeals continue through the production of her art, which is sold at ArtbyJodiArias.com. Her art admin supports her efforts by running this “side hustle” of sorts on her behalf and taking none of the funds. The time and effort he devotes to this process (filing the taxes, trips to the post office every week to ship art) are an invaluable contribution.

If you are interested in another way to contribute to the cause, any purchase at ArtbyJodiArias.com is a legitimate way to support Jodi. You can also check out Jodi’s art on Instagram @ArtbyJodiArias.

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And Remember folks… as I always say – each day that passes takes us one day closer to Jodi’s release date.

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SJ
Team Jodi #WINNING <<<

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From Jodi:

My drawing Cat Nap  has a colorful back story.

The original was stolen from my art admin Quinn’s home office by his ex-girlfriend, whom he had invited back into his life.

He bumped into her while he was out one night. By then, hard feelings from the breakup had softened, as hard feelings tend to do, and the two briefly rekindled the flame.

It didn’t take long for Quinn to be reminded of the myriad reasons they broke up in the first place. Most glaring was her drug addiction. The deal breaker, however, was me.

She learned that he now supported me and helped me get my art out to the world, which he began doing after their breakup. I imagine her drug-addled mind could only conjure the fictional Jodi Arias put forth by fake news media: vixen, seductress, temptress. Her on-again boyfriend could not be friends with this Jodi.

So she gave him an ultimatum: me or her. This was a mistake.

Quinn is a fiercely independent guy. Never impose on his sense of sovereignty. When she told him Jodi or me, he told her goodbye, not because I’m super special, but to show her that giving him an ultimatum is a losing game. I hate to think this made her feel very unspecial.

She didn’t leave without a parting gift to herself. That’s when she catnapped the Cat Nap. She would never admit to theft, but she was the only person in Quinn’s house other than his own cat, whom I doubt ate it then barfed it up on the hardwood floor.

Her motives may have been multifaceted. She took it to support her drug habit. She took it because I made it and screw Jodi Arias. She took it because Quinn wanted to sell it for me and how dare he choose me over her.

I’ll always wonder what she did with the original. Did she destroy it in spite? Did she have any clue of its value and try to pawn it?

It’s more exciting to think that somewhere out there, someone possesses a stolen piece of my art, as if I were on par with those elite artists whose work was central to a heist. But then I come back to reality and accept the likelier scenario that an angry woman, calculated enough to steal it but not crafty enough to sell it for quick cash, ripped it up while high or hungover.

Thankfully, Quinn already had a high-resolution scan of it, which is why you can see it above, and why we get to offer prints at ArtByJodiArias.com.

Today is National Cat Day, by the way!

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ArtByJodiArias.com – UPDATE

Jodi’s personal efforts to raise money for her appeals continue through the production of her art, which is sold at ArtbyJodiArias.com. Her art admin supports her efforts by running this “side hustle” of sorts on her behalf and taking none of the funds. The time and effort he devotes to this process (filing the taxes, trips to the post office every week to ship art) are an invaluable contribution.

If you are interested in another way to contribute to the cause, any purchase at ArtbyJodiArias.com is a legitimate way to support Jodi. You can also check out Jodi’s art on Instagram @ArtbyJodiArias.

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And Remember folks… as I always say – each day that passes takes us one day closer to Jodi’s release date.

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SJ
Team Jodi #WINNING <<<

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From Jodi:

Hey All!

I drew this cute, spooky zombie girl with Halloween in mind.

Under the bright full moon and bare branches, she might be in a graveyard or in the wilderness on a chilly October night.

I named this Nothing to Fear  because I imagine that’s what she might whisper after putting her finger to her lips and saying, shhh….

If you’d like to acquire this original drawing click here or click on the pic below…

Have a fun October and a Happy Halloween!

Jodi Arias

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ArtByJodiArias.com – UPDATE

Jodi’s personal efforts to raise money for her appeals continue through the production of her art, which is sold at ArtbyJodiArias.com. Her art admin supports her efforts by running this “side hustle” of sorts on her behalf and taking none of the funds. The time and effort he devotes to this process (filing the taxes, trips to the post office every week to ship art) are an invaluable contribution.

If you are interested in another way to contribute to the cause, any purchase at ArtbyJodiArias.com is a legitimate way to support Jodi. You can also check out Jodi’s art on Instagram @ArtbyJodiArias.

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And Remember folks… as I always say – each day that passes takes us one day closer to Jodi’s release date.

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SJ
Team Jodi #WINNING <<<

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Fine Feral Felines (Foreword by Jodi Arias)

Recently, I read what was probably the most adorable article the Associated Press has ever published and I wanted to share it with you.

Have you ever been asked, “Are you a dog person or a cat person?” as though you were expected to draw a line and pick a side? I always answer “Both” to that silly question. I love animals. Yet I always had cats growing up and therefore have a special affinity for them.

I found this article on my tablet’s news app, which I rarely open because I’m intentional about consuming very little news. I loved it, and was also delighted that the Mexican presidential palace’s official veterinarian’s name is Jesús Arias. (Hey, cousin!)

By the way, the nonprofit Alley Cat Rescue has a TNR program (trap-neuter-release) for feral cats which helps humanely control their populations. Feral-cat communities can thrive and be healthy absent an overabundance of hungry kittens to feed. Consider donating to saveacat.org to help this organization continue its work on behalf of the world’s fine feral felines.

I hope you enjoy this article as much as I did.

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A new declaration in Mexico gives 19 cats roaming the presidential palace food and care fur-ever

Coco nibbles on a blade of grass in a National Palace courtyard, in Mexico City, Thursday, March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

BY MEGAN JANETSKY

MEXICO CITY (AP) — They prowl through palace gardens stalking pigeons and make cameos on televised press briefings. Some greet tourists at the doors, while others take a sneaky lick of ice cream from staff.

Nineteen feral cats have free rein of Mexico’s National Palace, long roaming the lush gardens and historic colonial halls of the most iconic buildings in the country.

“They have access to every part of the palace, so they walk in on meetings, interviews and wander onto camera,” said Jesús Arias, the palace veterinarian, as a handful of feline friends brush against his ankles.

Veterinarian Jesus Arias greets Ollin in one a National Palace courtyard, in Mexico City, Thursday, March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Now, the palace cats have made hiss-tory after the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared them to be “living fixed assets,” the first animals in Mexico to receive the title.

The investment term “fixed assets” usually applies to buildings and furniture, but by applying it to cats, López Obrador’s government has obligated the country’s Treasury to give them food and care for them for the rest of their lives, even after the leader leaves office in October.

“The cats are now a symbol of the National Palace. Just as we understand this world, I wouldn’t understand the National Palace without the presence of these cats,” said Adriana Castillo Román, general director of the National Palace and Cultural Heritage Conservancy. “We have to make sure the cats are taken care of.”

Nestled in the heart of Mexico City, the presidential palace has long been the seat of Mexico’s executive branch. Now the residence of López Obrador, it is built upon the former palace of Indigenous Emperor Moctezuma. Ironically, Moctezuma’s ancient Aztec culture honored not cats, but hairless dogs known as Xoloitzcuintle, who were even buried with their masters.

But these days, López Obrador is accompanied by Bowie, Bellof, Nube, Coco, Yema, Ollin, Balam and more, who seem to have found a purr-fect home in the building. López Obrador himself has said the cats “dominate” the palace and often walk in front of him during official ceremonies.

Some are named after artists, like an orange tabby “Bowie” named after the rockstar David Bowie, who visited the palace 1997 to see the famous mural by Mexican painter Diego Rivera. Others are named after native rocks or words in the region’s ancient Aztec language, like Ollin, which means “movement.”

Staff say they remember the feral cats living among the cacti and dense brush of the gardens as far back as 50 years ago.

But it’s unclear when they first appeared or how they even got into the building. While 19 live in the building full time, many more come and go, and staff suspect they slip under a small crack in the palace gate by night.

One cat named Zeus, who has since passed away, even became famous in July when he meandered into the president’s morning press briefing. The gray cat stood in front of cameras and wandered among reporters until palace staff had to carry him off.

A feral cat living on National Palace grounds takes a lick of ice cream, in Mexico City, Thursday, March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

To avoid a cat-astrophe, Castillo said the government had to ask reporters to stop feeding Zeus because he would spend his days accepting treats from different people around the palace and was “getting really fat”.

When López Obrador first took office in 2018, Castillo said the palace pets were being fed quietly by employees.

“Some employees that like cats would bring them leftovers from home and, every once in a while, canned food or rice and soup,” Castillo said.

Palace staff worked with vets from the National Autonomous University of Mexico to vaccinate, sterilize and chip the cats, and build them little cat homes and feeding stations around the garden. They also hired Arias to take care of them on a permanent basis and give them a good life.

Neither Bowie, Coco or Ollin commented when asked how they feel about being “living fixed assets.” Coco swished his tail, while Ollin stretched out below a palace pillar and fell asleep.

“Meow,” responded Nube, a gray cat named after the Spanish word for “cloud” who enjoys greeting visitors at the door of the palace.

Cats rest in a National Palace garden in Mexico City, Thursday, March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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ArtByJodiArias.com – UPDATE

Jodi’s personal efforts to raise money for her appeals continue through the production of her art, which is sold at ArtbyJodiArias.com. Her art admin supports her efforts by running this “side hustle” of sorts on her behalf and taking none of the funds. The time and effort he devotes to this process (filing the taxes, trips to the post office every week to ship art) are an invaluable contribution.

If you are interested in another way to contribute to the cause, any purchase at ArtbyJodiArias.com is a legitimate way to support Jodi. You can also check out Jodi’s art on Instagram @ArtbyJodiArias.

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And Remember folks… as I always say – each day that passes takes us one day closer to Jodi’s release date.

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SJ
Team Jodi #WINNING <<<

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With over 11 million page views & well over 7 million visitors since 2012 — December 21st 2023 marks the 11th anniversary of our Jodi Arias Is Innocent .com website launch.

So with Christmas just a few days away – I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support over the past 11 years – and thank you in advance for your continued support moving forward through 2024 and beyond.

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Here is Jodi’s Christmas Message:

“Yay! December!”

In December, I relax my gluten-free rule and get into baking mode. Last week, I made a beautiful Skittles cake with aqua-blue frosting. Today, I made cheesecake with a chocolate-sea-salt-caramel swirl.

A lot of us make holiday food this time of year because the microwave room, lacking air-conditioning, is not so insufferable in the winter. Next up: paella. (Well, something close to it.)

Lumley Unit is festooned with holiday decorations, making everywhere feel festive. December birthdays are celebrated, Secret-Santa presents are exchanged, and life feels lighter in the absence of oppressive desert heat.

So, yay! December! And yet — prison. The darkest month of the year is fraught with challenges for incarcerated women, and we haven’t exactly locked arms in an altruistic bond of sisterhood. But we make the best of it, however we can.

I hope that, wherever you are, you’re staying warm and tapping into the energy of this joyous time of year. Thank you for sticking with me! I couldn’t have asked for a better bunch of people.

Much Love,

<3 — Jodi Arias

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ArtByJodiArias.com – UPDATE

Jodi’s personal efforts to raise money for her appeals continue through the production of her art, which is sold at ArtbyJodiArias.com. Her art admin supports her efforts by running this “side hustle” of sorts on her behalf and taking none of the funds. The time and effort he devotes to this process (filing the taxes, trips to the post office every week to ship art) are an invaluable contribution.

If you are interested in another way to contribute to the cause, any purchase at ArtbyJodiArias.com is a legitimate way to support Jodi. You can also check out Jodi’s art on Instagram @ArtbyJodiArias.

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To finish off this festive update, here’s Jodi’s evergreenly awesome rendition of “O Holy Night.”:

Enjoy!

And Remember folks… as I always say – each day that passes takes us one day closer to Jodi’s release date.

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I wish you a very Merry Christmas, and a safe, peaceful, prosperous & awesome 2024.

SJ
Team Jodi #WINNING <<<

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By: Jodi Arias

“Thanksgiving at Perryville is a time when the weather is cooler and most people are in a better mood. In the spirit of tradition, many of us get together and share good food and warm drinks (hot chocolate, coffee, mocha, or cappuccino).

For me, Thanksgiving is always a reminder to reflect on my blessings. I feel profound gratitude for the warmth and kindness and support sent from people all over the world. I wish I had the bandwidth to thank everyone individually. I feel your love and I’m grateful!”

<3 — Jodi

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Remember, folks… each day that passes takes us one day closer to Jodi’s release date.

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SJ
Team Jodi #WINNING <<<

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By Jodi Arias:

During my second trial, I was sitting at the defense table next to my attorney Jennifer Willmott and there was a lull in the proceedings during which the jury was not present. Judge Sherri Stephens had just ruled against me again in favor of the State for what felt like the umpteenth time that week alone.

Again and again, my team’s motions were denied; Juan’s were granted. Our objections were overruled; Juan’s were sustained. The entire trial wasn’t like this but, for those few days, the court’s slant in favor of the state was more glaring than usual.

Right after one such ruling, I leaned over to Jennifer and whispered, “It’s almost like he sold his soul to the devil,” referring to Juan, of course.

“I know,” she whispered back.

“Except I don’t believe in that. How would a person sell their soul anyway?”

I asked this question rhetorically, not seriously, because the concept of selling one’s soul, in this context, is fiction. I was exhausted and not a little perplexed at how the judge’s bias was obvious to everyone but herself. Nevertheless, I asked the question aloud, albeit in a whisper.

About a week later, I scooped up the pile of postcards that had been shoved under my cell door at night while I slept. Several were from one person, written in blocky letters and black gel ink.

“Jodi, I can make the doors of that jail open and you will walk out of there a free woman. That is, if you are willing to deny your Creator and partake of the Satanic rights. . . .”

OK, whoa.

It only took me a moment to correlate the cards in my hands with the question I posed to Jennifer a week earlier. Was this some dark synchronicity, or just a wild coincidence? Whichever it was, the postcards gave me pause.

I don’t believe in the devil. There are devils, sure. The symbolic kind. But I’m talking about the Christian devil. Satan. Lucifer. He whom some do not name so as to avoid inadvertently summoning.

I used to be Christian so I know from the Christian perspective that denying the devil’s existence is a kind of heresy. In the Christian worldview, that’s exactly what the devil wants you to believe: that he’s not even real. A Christian will tell you that is one of Satan’s biggest lies.

I get it. I really do because I used to believe that, too. It took me a lifetime to realize my former belief in the devil was one I inherited as a preschooler and not one I came to by choice.

The devil, Christian or otherwise, is a symbol. But even when I believed in the existence of this fictional paragon of evil, I never believed it was possible to sell my soul to him. “How could I sell what’s not even mine? My soul belongs to God,” I once said as a teenager who thought herself to be so deep and philosophical.

Maybe that’s where the “Satanic rites” come in, serving to sever the spiritual ties I used to believe I had to heavenly realms. I would hazard a guess that this is achieved, hypothetically, via a complex ritual replete with pomp and formality, bolstered by a smattering of Latin and maybe some requisite bodily fluid that I would be too squeamish to collect and offer.

Sometimes, when I retell this story, I end it on a humorous note: “Obviously, I never took that deal because I’m still here!” (bah-dum-bump!) In prison, that is.

I don’t believe in this stuff anyway, but if I had believed it would work, my answer then would have been an emphatic “Hell no,” pun and all. Because if it worked that would mean I could regain my freedom, all for the price of . . . my soul? Which presumably equates to spending eternity in hell. Which is another thing I don’t believe. But a deal’s a deal, right? So no thanks.

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ArtByJodiArias.com – UPDATE

Jodi’s personal efforts to raise money for her appeals also continue through the production of her art, which is sold at ArtbyJodiArias.com. Her art admin supports her efforts by running this “side hustle” of sorts on her behalf and taking none of the funds. The time and effort he devotes to this process (filing the taxes, trips to the post office every week to ship art) are an invaluable contribution.

If you are interested in another way to contribute to the cause, any purchase at ArtbyJodiArias.com is a legitimate way to support Jodi. You can also check out Jodi’s art on Instagram @ArtbyJodiArias.

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And Remember folks… as I always say – each day that passes takes us one day closer to Jodi’s release date.

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SJ
Team Jodi #WINNING <<<

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By Jodi Arias:

Arizona’s Director of Prisons, Ryan Thornell, was onsite Friday afternoon to experience for himself the hot, stifling air inside what one woman here aptly termed our “concrete coffins.”

Following his visit, resources were mobilized to enact unprecedented changes.

Last Friday afternoon, I was working in the library when my coworker breezed in from wherever she had just been and said, “The director is on C yard!”

“The director?”

“The director.”

I grabbed my glasses and we went outside to stare across Lumley Unit’s broad dirt field to try to get a glimpse of him. Appointed by the governor to oversee all prisons across Arizona, no one in the department ranks above the director. His visits are a big deal. 

Perryville had just been the focus of a news story that broke earlier in the week on the local NBC affiliate, 12News. The topic was the unbearable conditions in which we are housed during the summer. As you may know, the Sonora Desert, which stretches across a large swath of the Southwestern United States, reaches lethal temperatures in the summer, and this year marks yet another of record-breaking heat.

Thornell’s visit appeared to be unannounced. He arrived on Lumley Unit with very few people while the unit-level big wigs, chilling in their cushy air-conditioned offices, scrambled to join him in the middle of what ultimately became a 113-degree day.

We watched as his now-burgeoning entourage left C yard and marched on towards D yard. He asked several of the women on the yards what short-term suggestions they had for relieving some of the misery and danger the intense heat presents (that is, in lieu of air-conditioning, a long-term plan riddled with logistical conundrums).

Here are some of the ideas they proposed to Thornell:

Suggestion: more cold water

It’s already offered in two kegs, or “igloos,” on each yard. However, these hold a mere five gallons for over one hundred women, and they often run dry in the evenings, right about the time we’re all headed for a long night in our hot “concrete coffins.”

Suggestion: free ice for all

How is this for extortion? Trap a bunch of humans in the desert, deprive them of air-conditioning, and eliminate cold water from the tap so that it only flows warm or hot, including the showers. Then charge them for ice.

Ice is big business for Keefe Group, supplier of our commissary and sole holder of the commissary contract for Arizona’s prisons. At $2.05 for a 7-pound bag that quickly melts in an un-air-conditioned cell, the company undoubtedly makes a fortune on ice-ticket sales.

Suggestion: more shade

Each yard is laid with thousands of square meters of heat-refracting concrete. This concrete bakes all day in the sun and radiates heat all night. Same for the concrete buildings in which we live. Shade is sparse. It’s also an inconvenience to the budget, which typically gets allocated for other projects, though what projects is anyone’s guess.

Shade also interferes with the yard’s security cameras. All two of them.

Suggestion: misters

Perryville isn’t a spa resort in Scottsdale. Even I was cynical about misters.

You can imagine my great surprise when these suggestions were exactly what the Director ordered.

Just after sunset Friday evening, only hours after Thornell left, a semi-truck rolled onto Lumley Unit, detached from its giant trailer, which had a running generator attached to it, and drove off. A smaller truck approached, topped off the generator’s gas, and also left. We all speculated.

The next day, we found out the trailer was filled with pallets of Keefe ice. Free ice for everyone! I choked back emotion when I saw people who have never been able to afford ice line up for their blessedly cold, 7-pound bag. Some were women made meek and manageable by heavily prescribed psych meds, for whom excessive heat is contraindicated but who can’t not be in excessive heat because there’s nowhere else they can be.

Saturday also brought a crew of workers to Lumley Unit who installed misters in various places across the yard. As soon as they began misting, we all felt an immediate difference.

Sunday opened with still more surprises. Another work crew marched onto the yard, erected a metal frame over one of the concrete tables, bolted it in place, then covered it with shade.

Director Thornell also returned on Sunday afternoon. Did you read that? On Sunday! He knew the weather wasn’t taking a weekend off so neither did he. He made sure his ranking staff didn’t either. All the bosses spent their weekend at Perryville rolling out the director’s directives. He was back onsite to check the progress and — almost unbelievably — ask the women for still more suggestions. “Within reason,” he added.

That the Director of Prisons would deign to speak to any of us in custody, in our environment, on our terms, and not in some scripted setting orchestrated by public relations staff is so rare that this alone is worth a newsletter. That he accepted our feedback and acted on our suggestions feels as though Perryville has somehow shifted into a parallel universe. We didn’t just feel heard, we were heard.

These changes have been heartening, to say the least. I am a bit in awe of this man. Not because of his impressive academic credentials — a master’s degree in criminal justice and a doctorate in political science — but because of his boss moves.

He was made aware of a problem and took immediate action requiring significant logistics. His leadership makes the last two guys who held his position look like cold, inept clowns.

Ryan Thornell for president!

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ArtByJodiArias.com – UPDATE

Jodi’s personal efforts to raise money for her appeals also continue through the production of her art, which is sold at ArtbyJodiArias.com. Her art admin supports her efforts by running this “side hustle” of sorts on her behalf and taking none of the funds. The time and effort he devotes to this process (filing the taxes, trips to the post office every week to ship art) are an invaluable contribution.

If you are interested in another way to contribute to the cause, any purchase at ArtbyJodiArias.com is a legitimate way to support Jodi. You can also check out Jodi’s art on Instagram @ArtbyJodiArias.

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And Remember folks… as I always say – each day that passes takes us one day closer to Jodi’s release date.

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Leave your thoughts & comments below…
SJ
Team Jodi #WINNING <<<

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Recently, someone asked if it was not a waste to donate to the JAA Appellate Fund, since Jodi’s appeal to overturn her wrongful conviction was denied in 2021 by the Court of Appeals of Arizona. Given how complex the legal system is, this was a good question that others may have also wondered. The short answer is, no, it’s not a waste.

Here is an explanation:

Jodi was appointed public defenders in 2015 to file her direct appeal with the Court of Appeals of Arizona. That court upheld her wrongful conviction in 2021 despite acknowledging gross prosecutorial misconduct by now-disbarred Juan Martinez.

Jodi was then appointed lawyers who are now in the process of filing for post-conviction relief (PCR). They have yet to file this brief because the case file is enormous and they are still preparing. This brief will be filed with the Superior Court of Maricopa County. After this, her court-appointed representation will end, which means she will have to pay for a lawyer beyond this point.

So what is beyond this point? Well, if Jodi is granted relief from the PCR process (meaning the judge agrees that Jodi did not receive a fair trial), the clock restarts in her case, and the fund will be used to get a good pretrial lawyer. This is written into the instructions of the trust.

If she is not granted relief (meaning the court upholds her wrongful conviction), the fund will be used to retain a lawyer to petition the federal court circuits all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court, if necessary.

Because Arizona is loath to admit just how badly Jodi’s case has been handled, it will likely take a higher court to hold Arizona’s lower courts accountable.

Yet now that the trial judge, Sherri Stephens, has retired, a different superior court judge may recognize the utter circus that was Jodi’s trial and throw out Jodi’s wrongful conviction. This is certainly a legal possibility.

In either of the above scenarios (relief or no relief), the JAA Appellate Fund will be greatly needed:

1. To retain a lawyer to continue petitioning federal courts on Jodi’s behalf.
2. To retain a lawyer to represent her in the pretrial process. Technically, she could be appointed another public defender under this scenario, but given how terribly that worked out the first time, retaining a private lawyer would be the better way to go. The JAA Appellate Fund allows for this scenario.

Lawyers are expensive, and you often get what you pay for, so let’s empower Jodi to afford the best legal representation possible. Donate at Justice4Jodi.com.

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ArtByJodiArias.com – UPDATE

Jodi’s personal efforts to raise money for her appeals also continue through the production of her art, which is sold at ArtbyJodiArias.com. Her art admin supports her efforts by running this “side hustle” of sorts on her behalf and taking none of the funds. The time and effort he devotes to this process (filing the taxes, trips to the post office every week to ship art) are an invaluable contribution.

If you are interested in another way to contribute to the cause, any purchase at ArtbyJodiArias.com is a legitimate way to support Jodi. You can also check out Jodi’s art on Instagram @ArtbyJodiArias.

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And Remember folks… as I always say – each day that passes takes us one day closer to Jodi’s release date.

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SJ
Team Jodi #WINNING <<<

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