I was at legal access this morning when an inmate punched out another one, climbed on top of him and continued punching the unconscious inmate, then decided to walk away only to double back and then proceeded to smash the unconscious inmates head on the concrete. Then the inmate goes to the gym and proceeds to work out with blood all over him as though nothing happened. Not only were the guards not paying attention to the cameras that covered where the altercation transpired, but the guards doing laps had looked in the room and took no notice of the unconscious inmate as he lay there so brutalized his mother would struggle to recognize him. From legal access/law library I saw them escort the inmate out who did it. The inmate who was beaten was taken out with a neck brace on a stretcher. When I was let out of the law library room one of the guards kept saying "It's bad. It's really bad." Because the guards wheeled the stretcher through the Range 1 hallway, all of the inmates got to see how bad the guys face was, and they keep talking about it. Most fights are just a few punches and many don't get caught. We are locked down so much that frustration is exceptionally high and perhaps the inmates got into a verbal exchange from their cells or maybe it was an issue with being able to use a phone. The rumor mill shall churn.
One of the inmates on this Range says that an inmate in Green Bay threw boiling fluid on a guard and melted the guards face, so they put the inmate in the hole and sprayed his cell full of pepper spray until he died of suffocation. Then the guards had inmate workers clean up the pepper spray before the guards themselves tore up a mattress in the cell and claimed the inmate had hung himself. When the inmate workers complained the inmate was dead after the pepper spray and before any torn up mattress was in the cell, they were fired from their jobs and sent to other prisons. Also, there isn't anything to hang yourself from in the cells. Even though it didn't make sense and there were witnesses that could discredit the story, the official reports alleged otherwise. Kenosha had stories about how guards get away with violence and murder as well. Although I cannot confirm the story, I can see it being possible. They can get away with saying anything, even perfectly absurd, is true. Without any way to preserve video evidence or get legal help, the D.O.C. can get away with most anything. "For the needs and security of the institution."
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No sleep at all because my back hurts too much.
"In an insane world it's the sane who are called crazy." 12:01am, the same guard who doesn't have any use for, but is unbelievably disruptive with his keys wakes me. I hit the intercom button and ask the sergeant to have him tuck his keys in his pocket and although he is quiet until the Ramadan breakfasts are issued before sunrise, I am still stuck awake with my usual back pain and really wish the guards were decent enough to just leave me sleep when I can.
A massive ship collides with a bridge in Baltimore and its time to twist the event into a reason to pass another infrastructure upgrade bill. You know, when a ship strikes a bridge then it must have been the bridges fault. Rec gets cancelled today so I won't have any possibility at making a phone call for three days.
I have this theory that keeps running circles in my square. It might be the interesting framework for a tapletop game, or if it proves true, then it might solve the worlds biggest problems. I get so frustrated watching the news. All the wrongs that are perpetrated over imigration or heatlhcare confound me. My thoughts aren't only disagreement with my observations, but I have a theory that suggests to me that it could virtually eliminate all the craziness. It's a simple idea that I would really like someone to show me how it would not work. Otherwise it offers some immeasurable benefits.
I also keep thinking about how the law enforcement, court, and prison systems are all branches of the Authoritarian Religion where most of us just accept the institutions without any real familiarity or examination. Belief without examination is the definition of faith which is the essential component of any religion. I have been crying much less lately. I believe the change in my diet has helped quite a lot. I still don't feel normal but I feel much less poisoned and my headache just hides in the background unless I strain myself with an exercise. Light weight and go easy. No milk, cheese, or dairy. No soy. I almost always listen to country music on the radio since that is what is available. I haven't been paying for any subscriptions, although I miss other kinds of music. Not a day goes by where I don't stare at pictures of my kids. I miss them too. In person visits are awesome for me. After the visit all inmates are stripped and searched, then walked back to our housing units. One of the other inmates says his wife who has visited him repeatedly for many months drove six hours to be denied. The guards supposedly confused her for another woman whose name was similar but spelled differently who had been arrested for possession of methamphetamine and the guards refused to double check the mistake. Then, he said, the social worker for his housing unit was making fun of him because his wife struggles with addiction, even though it wasn't actually his wife whom the guards had looked up. I don't nkow the truth of it all, but if its true it is an example of how corrective action for staff error is not a consideration until after deprivations are suffered. And, gossip reigns supreme. I am shocked at how little guards do, from what I have seen. I think a lot of what they do to grief inmates is actually done from boredom if not the resentment of not walking to come to "work." Compared to jail and Dodge, the staff here has been decent toward me except for their effort to block me from talking to my kids. Even if the other inmates wife was arrested for possessing drugs, I feel like it shouldn't be something to tease him about or to gossip to other staff. I just don't see how it is good or in any way constructive or rehabilitative.
The guy who was trying to bully everyone but his friend and his self off of the phone I usually use got himself taken to the hole. Hopefully I will get at least one call each rec time then.
Hyperextending my right elbow and turning my wrist causes some wicked crackling and snapping sounds in my aching elbow which now feels different but I don't know for better or worse. Yes, my back is still junk. My heel tingles with needles too.
I learn that my family has received the "discovery" but I still have not, after three years in jail and almost eleven months in prison. I don't get much time to go through it but I sure wish that I did.
I am authorized a new diet replacing milk with oatmeal and excluding soy. I am now called for meals before the regular meal plans are served so I won't be able to trade my desserts for other food but I am hoping the diet will allow me not to have to.
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