Kevin Tower Calls for Improved Prison Investigative Process
In his latest dispatch from inside the Michigan prison system, Tower calls for an improved prison investigative process
Kevin Tower has reached out to me again from inside the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater, Michigan.
Tower has been incarcerated for since the mid 1990s for the July 1995 murders of his two uncles.
Since his conviction, he’s developed an airtight alibi; a key witness has recanted and said she was coerced by prosecutors into implicating Kevin, and he’s learned that prosecutors withheld evidence that showed the cooperation agreement between this witness- Becky Cochrane- and the government was far more extensive than they let on at trial.
Still, he remains in prison. See below starting at approximately thirty-eight minutes in as Lindy Morelli talks about Kevin’s case.
Find my podcast with Lindy here. Find my previous dispatch with Kevin here.
Today, Kevin is calling for reform in the prison’s investigative process.
“I am sending you three emails: Parts 1, 2, & 3 having to do with MDOC's unconstitutional biased investigations.” Kevin told me in an email through JPay. “The Prisoner Advocacy groups in this State are dealing with issues they should not have to help with. If there was an effective and unbiased grievance process they would not have to do so much work. Many of the problems they help with, could be resolved with an effective grievance process.”
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