Two months ago, Nelson Hopkins Sr. began writing apology letters in his northwest Missouri prison cell. He doesn’t have access to computers. Working with pen and paper, he apologized — to his victims of his June 2011 Blue Springs pizza store robbery, to the detectives who questioned him, even to the mayor of Blue Springs.
Nelson Hopkins Sr. is serving a 20-year sentence at the Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron, Mo.
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