15 YEARS TO LIFE

Governor David Paterson at the Whitney Museum with  Anthony Papa's painting "15 to Life"

APRIL 24, 2009  QUEENS, NY/ANTHONY PAPA THANKING GOV. PATERSON                 ANDREW CUOMO AT MY BOOK PARTY HE HOSTED AT THE WHITNEY

FOR REFORMING THE ROCKEFELLER DRUG LAWS

THE OFFICIAL SITE OF ANTHONY PAPA

HOME OF  OUTSIDER  ART  & DRUG  WAR ACTIVISM

Singer Sting and Papa on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0A1XTlJAio  

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A story of inspiration of the human spirit that creates a common path that anyone could follow in transcending a negative experience.

Soon to be a Block Buster Feature Film

 http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118001620.html?categoryid=1238&cs=1

15 to Life tells a rare adventure story: how a family man, railroaded by the subterfuge surrounding the War on Drugs, was able to get an early release from prison through his art and become a major activist against draconian drug laws. Offered a chance to make a quick $500, Anthony Papa agreed to deliver an envelope in a fated police sting operation. His first and only criminal offense cost Papa a 15-year sentence to Sing-Sing, New York State’s maximum-security prison. Suicide was contemplated when Tony Papa realized that the best years of his life would be spent in a six-foot cell. One day he discovered painting. It gave him hope, and he discovered a talent. When the Whitney Museum chose his painting to exhibit, he suddenly received intense media attention. Governor Pataki got wind of his case, and after 12 hard years of time, Anthony Papa was granted clemency. 15 to Life is more than a dramatic story more than an inside look at the most dangerous prison in America today — it is also an important sociological work and a call for reform of the destructive laws of the War on Drugs.

  http://www.comcast.net/video/sentence-too-high/23468860/   (Papa and Andrew Cuomo on Court TV with 15 to Life interview))

Review Highlights
"This tension-filled memoir by a prisoner turned activist and artist may seem familiar after Jennifer Gonnerman's NBA-nominated Life on the Outside, but 
unlike Gonnerman, Papa describes excessive imprisonment under harsh drug laws with the grim certainty of firsthand experience."
--Publishers Weekly

"Papa has an astounding visual imagination. 15 to Life is more than an insider's view of New York's prison archipelago. It's also a powerful statement against a war on drugs."
--New York Press

"Anthony Papa has written a riveting account of how he courageously painted his way to freedom from prison after unnecessarily serving twelve years.  His story puts a human face on the nearly one million nonviolent drug offenders confined in prisons throughout the country" --Susan Sarandon  -Actor/Activist

http://www.15yearstolife.com/bio.htm Bio

  http://www.15yearstolife.com/art1.htm - My art

  http://www.15yearstolife.com/whitney_museum_of_american_art_e.htm   Photos of my Whitney Show

   http://www.15yearstolife.com/presentatio.htm   Art Installations

  http://www.15yearstolife.com/contraband.htm Body Cavity Searches DOCs directive 4910

  http://www.15yearstolife.com/Artban.htm   NYS prison art band & voting activism

  http://www.15yearstolife.com/photo.htm  Photos of the rOCK movement since 1997

  http://www.15yearstolife.com/imothers.htm   Rock Law News

  http://www.15yearstolife.com/links.htm Rockefeller Drug Sentencing Info

  http://www.15yearstolife.com/new_page_5.htm -BRIEF History OF Rockefeller lAWS Mothers of the NY Disappeared

  http://www.15yearstolife.com/book.htm  Book Media

  http://www.15yearstolife.com/articles.htm  Activism 101 - recent projects  & archival articles

   http://www.15yearstolife.com/jpg.jpg/availability.htm -Contact Info - speaking venues

     http://www.15yearstolife.com/memorial.htm  Fielding Dawson  & Al (Grandpa ) Lewis memorial   

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