Jermaine Wilson needed a plan.
He was behind bars in the maximum security wing of Lansing Correctional Facility. “Like a caged animal,” he said.
He took up paper and pen there in 2007 and began listing the way it was going to be.
He had God in his life now. No more drugs. No more “chasing the money.” He was going to get back to his 8-month-old son, Jermaine Jr. He was going to take classes in prison. Get out and start a life of service. Go to work. Start a non-profit.
Not on his list? Become the mayor of Leavenworth.
But Tuesday night, some 12 years after beginning a three-year sentence on drug charges, Leavenworth’s rising symbol of hope, unity and redemption took the center seat at the City Commission meeting as the new mayor.
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