August 9, 2023

I have looked for something positive to make of my time. Even while in jail, I made a huge vocabulary list I wanted to share with my kids. Just a lot of words I came across while reading books. Boscobel has a vocational program for barbershop/cosmetology and it is one of the reasons I preferenced for here. I got a response to my require to join the program. No major violations in the last year is one of the requirements. So, that lying ass librarian has blocked me from even being eligible for the vocational program. That sickens me.

I still have no received any reply from my appeal to the decision. I even wrote the warden at Dodge after I came. to Boscobel. That didn't elicit a response either. I asked the Security Director, Taylor, and he couldn't offer any help. I asked the social worker, Peters, and she said she can only see the violation but no appeal in their system. I can't even fulfill the requirement to exhaust all administrative remedies if they just refuse to process the appeal form. They are supposed to have sixty days to deal with it but I cannot even get an acknowledgement it was received since I had submitted it Sunday night and left Dodge the next morning. All the benefits in the system are for people of authority to lie and get away with it. She dismissed me from the law library and walked over to my housing unit to talk to me away from everyone else! I didn't orchestrate any private encounter with that woman but then she goes on to claim I hit on her! What the French, toast?! And then they refused the video as evidence for the hearing but the "advocate" saw it and told me it showed her going to the law library and everyone then getting up to leave.

Have there been any polls to see if Michael Graveley is an honest person? Car rides and stories changed which then contradict material evidence? What happens when prison staff hide evidence, or withhold it, as it demonstrates the questionable dealings of their employees, and which contradict the staff's testimony at the disciplinary hearing? The damages? Life savings, years of my life, miserable conditions of confinement and senseless deprivity.

I am really looking forward to talking to other people who were wrongly accused and convicted and hearing about their stories. I am going to need an emotional support group and an excellent therapist by the time I am done with this.

​I also put my name in the hat to do some tutoring if guys need help. I would rather it be helping my own kids with their school work, but maybe I will be better at helping my own kids with a little practice in here. I did help my daughter as much as her mother would allow but my boys were a bit young for homework when I got arrested. A lot of these guys don't have any high school diploma. Some cannot even read. I think a lot of education is centered around a willingness to learn and an enthusiasm to teach yourself. Reading just takes practice. Aside from that, the best way to learn to read is to read out loud. I expect my help, if requested, will be more an interest in solving for x or simple algebra. Perhaps my "major violation" will prevent that from happening too.