Inmate offers to be a bone marrow donor for judge who put him in jail while a prosecutor
A North Carolina inmate says he has no ill will toward the district attorney who helped put him in jail.
The inmate, Charles Alston, is serving a 25-year sentence for armed robbery. In a letter to the former prosecutor, who is now a judge in Chapel Hill, Alston says he is willing to be a bone marrow donor to help the judge in his battle against cancer. WRAL has the story.
“You were the District Attorney during the course of my trial,” Alston wrote to Judge Carl Fox. “There is no hatred or animosity in my heart towards you.”
Alston writes that he has “given my heart to Christ” and he is a changed man since going to prison.
Prisoners aren’t allowed to be bone marrow donors, but Fox says he is touched by Alston’s offer.
Fox, who is black, told the News & Observer in June that he was going public with his illness to avoid rumors, but he is gratified by the response from African-Americans who want to register as donors. He is still looking for a donor match, ABC 11 reported Wednesday.
“My goal has always been not just to find somebody to match me, but to find someone to match every one of for those 14,000 people who are looking for a bone marrow donor,” Fox said.
