Hello my name is Angela Young, of Tulsa, Ok I'v made this site for my mom her name is Billie Marie Taylor she is in Tallahassee, FL federal correctional institution. She has been there 21 yrs. because her boyfriend bought a chemical from an undercover federal officer of Texas used in the making of meth she got accessory to the possibility of making 14.96 kilos an there was a gun charge as well it was her first time affiance and was sentenced to 32 ½ yrs.
On May 15th she is applying to get a clemency hearing she has gotten denied every yr. she has applied an family, friends and myself need ur help to bring her home we feel that she has served more than enough time she is high level trusties. We feel that she has learned her lesson an needs to come home she has 2 kids me and my brother Robbie Bruce of Wichita, KS. She also has 5 grandkids. from ages 12 down to months. Because of how far away she is we have only been able to visit her 2 times once in 2001 thin in 2007. the 2 youngest grandkids she has not yet met. An she has her mom Joida Heuston of Okmulgee, OK that just can’t make the trip anymore and she is not in the best health she needs to spend the time she has left with her daughter.
My mom is a wonderful person she has always been the one to help others she just made a mistake we all make mistakes why should her one mistake take away her whole life an away from those of us that love an need her? I was 6 when she went in I’m 27 now. that’s my whole life and my kids don’t even really know her.
Could u please help us bring her home where she belongs were doing a petition of everyone in favor of letting her come home. your name would really make a huge difference. Could we add you to the petition??
Just picture it being your mom, daughter, sister, niece, or grandma would u think its fare to lose her cause she was in wrong place at wrong time please let me know a.s.a.p. if you’ll join the petition we only have weeks to put this all together and if there is any advice you might have that would help us please let me know thank you for your time 

Sincerely; Angela Young

((2001)) prisoner of the war on drugs
135 months
count 1- conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine
count 2-possession of listed chemical
count 3-possession of a gun
count 4- not having gun registered

i was convicted of these four counts in December 1991. i was a minimal participant but because of the war on drugs, the conspiracy law and the mandatory minimums, i was sentenced to 32 ½ years. When you are charged with conspiracy it takes very little evidence from the courts to get a conviction. As little as someone who is trying to get there sentence reduced to say, “Yes, she knew what was going on.” This law has completely changed my life: because of something my boyfriend was doing I’m caught in a nightmare. I gave him a ride somewhere and ended up in a police procedure called “reverse sting operation.” It did not matter if I knew what was going on or not. The way I was charged reads, “Because I was there, under Pinkerton she’s guilty of everything her boyfriend has done.” (Pinkerton is case law that holds someone guilty because of someone else’s action.) The only 2 people my boyfriend was in conspiracy with, was a Houston narcotics officer and the paid informant. The law reads, “It takes two or more in an agreement to have a conspiracy but it can’t be a paid informant or an officer of the law.” So they needed someone else to convict him, so I was charged with everything. I was convicted of an agreement that I never entered into, a gun I never used, and charged with 14.96 kilos of meth that never existed because under the conspiracy law they took the chemical that the police officer bought to sell and converted it into drugs. Even though no meth was produced from this chemical, government chemist calculated how much it could have made and I was charged with the hypothetical amount. They calculated it at 19.96 kilos of meth and that amount was used to raise my base level to 40,witch at this level doles out sentences such as mine of 32 ½ years all the way up to life.
This law has affected so many low level and minimal participant people and their families. I have 2 children that are growing up without me. I haven’t seen them or my family in almost nine years the law truly needs to be recognized for what it is. The public does not really realize the sentencing techniques used for sending so many non-violent drug offenders to prison for such lengthy sentences. I’m telling you from fist hand experience. It doesn’t take much to get 10 years to a life sentence in federal system. All that is needed in a conspiracy charge is as little as giving someone a ride somewhere or using a friends phone to make a case under federal law. “we are doing decades in her wile murders, child molesters, and other violent crimes are doing the average of three to seven years. I ask you, have you really looked at the way your country’s judicial system is being run?
I was 28 years old when I came to prison and with good time (54 good days a year) I’ll be 58 years old when I get out. How will I survive then- still off taxpayers? I’ve done more time for my part in the crime, but I’m still looking at 21 more years. It’s like a hole in my soul with a cold winter wind blowing through it……