During these many years of incarceration, Paul has faced unbelievable challenges and hardships. We have all seen the true strength and goodness of Paul Cortez. Paul’s strong religious beliefs guided him and sustained him throughout his this wrongful conviction. Throughout the past 11 years of Paul’s wrongful incarceration his incredible decency, kindness and his respect for others has been on full display. Paul has spent the past decade of his life trying to to make life better for all those around him.
Statistics confirm prison hardens people and finds them making compromises for survival. But, throughout this horrific ordeal, Paul continues to remain the same incredibly decent, caring person with strong religious values.

We pray that Paul will have support of all fair minded people who will support efforts for him to have the ability to prove in a fair court of law what we are certain without doubt. Paul Cortez is innocent and the victim of a wrongful conviction.