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Arimela
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Nov 14, 2025
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Arimela is 30 years old and has been engaged to Richard Stahursky for four-and-a-half years. Richard was sentenced in Maine and later transferred to New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, New Jersey in 2016. She has a bachelor’s degree in law with a minor in criminology from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. During her studies, she decided to reach out to Richard to understand the impact of incarceration on real people. Their relationship blossomed from there. They didn’t predict back then that their lives would forever change. Her goal is to get justice for her fiancé Richard, to get him a second chance at life. She describes herself as “relentless, kind and fierce.”
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Jan 3, 2026 ∙ 5 min
Against Everlasting Punishment
In our previous coverage of Richard Stahursky’s case, we explored the systemic failures that defined his decades of incarceration. While Richard has accepted responsibility for his actions, his journey highlights a critical question: what is the purpose of our correctional system if not to offer a path toward restoration? In this follow-up piece, his loved one Arimela provides an update on their continued fight for basic human dignities, including Richard’s right to pursue a college...
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Nov 14, 2025 ∙ 10 min
He was guilty; so was the Maine Department of Corrections
Richard Stahursky is serving a life sentence due to a series of compounding factors, including a severely abusive childhood, untreated mental illness, and repeated failures by the criminal justice system to provide effective legal counsel and necessary mental healthcare. His story is told here by his loved one, Arimela. A man in chains converses with a woman (c. 1775) by William Hamilton. “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” As I read a letter from my beloved Richard,...
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