MANATEE — A box full of letters from Thomas Fast, all with the return address of the Manatee County jail, is hard for Gary Daughtrey to ignore, but he says he does. Daughtrey used to read the writings ...

Other Facts: Grew up in poverty in segregated Georgia. Raised by his maternal grandparents as a devout Catholic, and was sent to an all-black Catholic school run by white nuns. Thomas was a ...