Henry
Prince, a convicted murderer, turned preacher, turned pimp, is facing new
charges of promoting prostitution. Let
that sink in for a second now. A man was
convicted of committing murder. Then he
allegedly (or maybe really) found God and became a preacher. Then he clearly lost God and found the devil
and became a pimp. He’s now, at age 63,
facing charges of promoting prostitution.
I thought Connecticut was just home to Yale and hedge funds. I was clearly wrong.
Sad because he got caught |
He
started taking drugs at age 10 and was soon an addict and criminal. He dropped
out of school at such a young age that his only graduation was from juvenile
detention to adult jails. By age 32, he had 14 felony convictions. He hit
bottom when he killed a fellow dope dealer in 1982. He went to trial in 1984,
and was sentenced to 40 years.
He
appeared to transform his life in prison after getting off drugs. He got a high
school diploma, then a two-year college degree. He started a cultural affairs
program, a family program and a closed-circuit news program in prison. He also
directed the prison choir.
In
1991, he went on work release and became a drug and alcohol counselor. He
served as director of the state's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission while still
incarcerated at the old Morgan Street jail in Hartford.
Price's
apparent turnaround was so impressive that, in 1994, the state Board of Pardons
and Paroles commuted his sentence.
After
he left prison, Price twice ran unsuccessfully for the Hartford City Council,
worked as a program manager for the family reunification program of Community
Partners in Action in Hartford, and also counseled ex-offenders and helped them
get into drug treatment.
In
reality, prosecutors would later say, Price pressed women he met through his
work as prison counselor into working for him as prostitutes.
So,
to sum up, by age 32, he had 14 felony convictions and murdered a fellow drug
dealer. He went to prison and worked his
way up to directing the church choir. He
got paroled and ran the “family reunification program” as a prostitution
breeding ground. What a P.O.S.
Back,
in the early 2000s he had enough stones to accuse the police of framing
him. Then in 2002, he begged forgiveness
and mercy, saying deep down he was a good person, invoking the name of Jesus. He served six years. But when he got out of prison, he preyed on
drug addicted women and turned them out.
Let’s
hope judges quit believing his lies.
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