Adam Drake: Lockup Colorado – He Just Shouldn’t Be In Jail
This is Adam Drake. Everyone watching LockUp probably thought, man what a goofball. I thought, oh god, I miss him.
Wasn’t expecting it to make me laugh and cry and at the same time, but it did. Seeing him as an adult (last time I saw him was just before he was sent to Colorado from Massachusetts, just before he turned 18, just before he shot a man.)
The laugh montage is Adam Drake. The shrugs, the smiling, the laugh, the pain in the ass anti-establishment breaking of silly rules; that is Adam Drake. He shouldn’t be in jail for life without parole when half of his prison is filled with sex offenders and gang members who killed for fun and raped for frolic. Adam isn’t a sex offending gang banger, he’s a shrugging, laughing goofball who shot a child predator in self defense and I’d let him babysit my daughter.
God fucking damn it. He shouldn’t be in prison.
That is all.
Edited 12/28/10:
After posting about one of my dearest and oldest friends, Adam Drake, I’ve noticed a good amount of people have been searching for him. Since I love him as much as I do, I feel he should get as many letters as possible.
If you would like to help Adam Drake, please write to the politicians of Colorado, petition the legislature to reconsider their judging of Juveniles as adults and putting them away for life, please his case to the governor directly, letting him know Adam went to jail for killing a child predator, OR if none of those moves suit your fancy, write Adam a letter. It’s a long day in a tiny cell, he’d probably love to hear from you.
Adam Drake’s Address:
102616, LCF
49030 State Hwy, 71
Limon, CO 80826
Let him know Caitlin loves him and sent you.
Disclaimer:
I have to add this now, having received messages from aggressive discontents, twice now. This article is a news clipping from the time that Adam was charged. Now when you search for Adam, you get his writeaprisoner profile, my blog, then this article. I’ve had two real works of art send me this article as though they’ve magically found the holy grail. It states the version of the story that suited the journalist covering the case. Adam went to jail for the crime, that is the history as it is written, but the truth is far more important to me. I am more than content to hear another point of view when it is educated and considerate of my friend and myself, and when expressed with respect, but if you have to insult me in order to make your point, and unless you are Adam, someone present at the time of the crime, or someone close to Adam, you probably don’t have one.)
That having been said, I know Adam. I know the details of the crime that has placed him in Limon. The article does not share those. The article fails to mention a great deal. Those details are Adam’s business, but in knowing them, I find it impossible NOT to stand by my friend. And I always will. Sorry guy who tried to tell me the article would change my world and turn my loyalty like it’s as cheap as a two dollar hooker. You were mistaken.
I do not condone or promote murder/death/killage, by any means, but I stand by my friend for one simple reason. Were I placed in a similar situation, I cannot say I would not have done the same. Having your life or safety, or the lives and safety of your friends placed in jeopardy is a situation I would never wish on anyone, as I would have never wished it on Adam.
Added 7/17/2011
Just going off seeing the episode and this account of what took place … fuck no he shouldn’t be in prison for life! Most child predators and sex offenders repeat their offenses (and worsen them), they don’t ever get better and those gross fucks deserve to die. I think as a bare minimum child predators and rapists should get their dicks cut off after their third offese … three convictions and the lil man is gone! I’m not saying that Adam Drake should’ve gotten off scott free, but he should have another chance at life for sure … what kind of country do we live in that we can’t protect our neighbors, shit half the time if we protect ourselves we get thrown in the slammer. What the fuck!
i agree with all of you. at the most he should of got was manslaughter with maybe 5 years and a baby raper piece of shit should getb adams time with there dicks cut off and CHIMO tattooed across there forehead wuth no chance of (PC) protective custody so they can feel what our kids feel when they get fucked i would let adam watch my kids and grandchild
Broke my heart to see this boy and his mother on Lock up. He reminds me of my nephew which makes it more haunting. May I ask..was there proof this man he killed was a sex offender?
I will try to help..
Hi from Australia I just finished watching the episode of lock up with Adam. I feel sorry for the guy he looks so out of place in prison, I have decided to write him personally hopefully a letter from a foreign country will cheer him up a bit! Is the address for him still current ?
102616, LCF
49030 State Hwy, 71
Limon, CO 80826
Regards shayne
It is Shayne. Go for it, but understand that he might take some time to get back to you. He responds to every letter though, so have patience.
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Life as I see it ✿ » Blog Archive » Adam Drake said this on August 15, 2011 at 1:01 am |
Hello. I have been corresponding with Adam for about 10 months now. He is a very sweet person and has a good soul. He does not deserve the punishment hee received.
i correspond with him also, haven’t heard from him in awhile. When’s the last time you got a letter from him. I know it takes him awhile to respond a lot. HA.
Hey. I got a Christmas card from him about a week before Christmas. He said he has trouble sometimes finishing letters. He is a sweetheart. He will write back. Sometimes it just takes a little while.
No teenager should receive a life sentence. Their brain has not fully developed at that age. That has been proven.
Copied 2012: Right now, juveniles in California can be sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. It is a sentence to die in prison.
The US is the only country in the world that applies this punishment to youth under the age of 18.
Several hundred teens have been sentenced to life without parole in California. Under the current law, not one of them will ever have the opportunity to demonstrate that they have turned their lives around and can safely re-enter society.
If Senate Bill 9 is enacted, California will set up a strict process for a judge to examine these individuals’ lives when they are older and determine if they are rehabilitated and remorseful. If so, they will then have a chance to earn parole after serving a minimum of 25 years.
Caitlin, what do you mean sent to CO from MA? I’m going to send Adam a letter. I was in an eerily similar situation at basically the same time he was. Only I had someone in my ear begging me not to kill the guy, but to call the police instead. This was in MA in Oct-Nov 1998. Adam’s case brought up so much of the past for me…
Hey Tara,
He was originally sent here to live with his Dad after living with his Mom in Colorado and getting in enough trouble for her to feel he could do better here. The requirements were that he had to have good behavior here. He did. He was doing unbelievably well here (friends who loved him, friends whose worst crimes were hanging out in graveyards at night singing “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” [he has the most amazing baritone, it made me die laughing], and friends who would have done anything for him), but after wearing an outfit to school that the Principal Dr Lisi, (Real name, I would love to see him suffer gangrene if Karma is true) didn’t like, he claimed Adam was a troublemaker and given the stipulations of his move to Massachusetts, just Lisi’s word was enough to have him sent home.
He was arrested for this crime less than a few months later.
Caitlin, I’d like to talk with you more about this. I found your Facebook through your gravatar profile. I am going to friend request & message you there.
I recently saw the broadcast of the Lockup show and was introduced to Adam Drake. My heart has absolutely been broken for him. I feel so horribly about what has happened. I understand everyone must pay for what they have done but I feel life without the possibility of parole is extreme. Especially given the fact that just last month an 18yr old girl murdered a 9 yr old little girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone. She received life with the possibility of parole.
What can we do to help Adam. Will writing to the state of Colorado really help, especially coming from someone outside of the state? I live in Georgia. Is there advocate agencies we can petition to on his behalf?
I know the show was done in 2009. How is Adam doing now? I am going to write to him directly but since I show the show last month I think of Adam and pray for him every day. I have children that are his age when he went into prison and I can’t imagine how difficult it is to have your life end at such a young age. I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks, El
Was wondering if there was anyway that I could call Adam to talk with him? I am an attorney and would love to share some things with him… westonronnie@yahoo.com is my email if there is any info on a phone conversation with him….
Once again, it woild seem like a case of a good law being applied poorly. Our judical system places so much power in the hands of judges, but throughout history, so many have abused that power that now they are limited in how they wield it. There is no reason the judge who tried the case shouldn’t be the one who is leading the call for Mr.Drake’s appeal. It’s very rare that I can feel sorry for a person that has been given a ‘life without parole’ sentence, but if the facts are what has been laid out here and in other articles I have read, my heart breaks for this young man. Good luck to him and those close to him. I truly hope he is able to win his appeal