My name is Mary Turner, and I’m reaching out with a heavy heart to ask for your support in helping us bring my husband, Darrell Skipper, home to rest in peace.

In October 2024, Darrell suffered a stroke that dramatically altered the course of his life. Just days later, on October 31, he was incarcerated. By January 2025, he was transferred to prison, where his health began to rapidly decline due to inadequate medical care. Darrell was not given the proper medications necessary to manage his heart condition. As a result, he developed a severe infection that impaired his ability to walk, leaving him wheelchair-bound for two months and growing weaker by the day.

Eventually, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer—yet it went untreated. Despite briefly being transferred to a hospital, he was returned to prison with the promise of future care, which never came. On May 20, 2025, Darrell suffered a heart attack that caused significant brain damage due to lack of oxygen. He was placed on a ventilator for 14 days and then taken off on June 3, where he showed signs of hope, breathing on his own for over 20 hours. But rather than being stabilized and treated, Darrell was denied basic care—no feeding tube, no fluids, no hygiene, and no compassion.

On June 4, Darrell was transferred to Kilby Infirmary under hospice care. For the next few days, he was left in conditions that no human being should ever endure. He passed between June 7 and June 9, 2025, in silence and in suffering.

We are now in a painful fight—not just for justice, but for dignity. The prison system intends to bury Darrell on state property, where his family would never be able to visit or honor him properly. He deserves more. He deserves to be laid to rest surrounded by love, not behind fences and gates.

We are humbly asking for your help to raise $5,000 to cover the costs of bringing Darrell’s body home, arranging a proper burial, and giving him the peace he was denied in life. No donation is too small—every dollar is a step toward honoring Darrell’s memory and restoring a measure of dignity to his story.

Please share this message, support our cause, and stand with us as we fight for Darrell's final rest.

Thank you for your kindness and your heart.

— Mary Turner and Family