December 21, 2023

Winter Solstice! The darkest days...aren't the coldest days. Another sleepless night and day. At rec this afternoon, a guy caught an elbow playing basketball and it drew blood. We got stood against the wall while at least two "white shirt" supervisors, eight regular corrections officers, and four nurses stood around chatting while one of the nurses wrapped the inmates head like he just had brain surgery. The guy was sitting down and everyone was perfectly calm before any staff responded.

All staff respond to all incidents. Even at Dodge, they all came out in the main corridor to stand around and gossip when I went to the hole. It continues to amaze me how little they have to do but still fail to provide things to inmates. More phone calls, more rec, more legal access, more food, more books, or whatever else. By enlarge it appears like a very do nothing job. One inmate joked about the misuse of taxpayer dollars and how the staff do note care unless they are irritated and want to harass inmates which will always get worse until a lawsuit stops them, but even then they don't care because it is still just taxpayer dollars. The last part seemed especially true; they don't care because it is still just taxpayer dollars. "It is becoming an issue" is the "needs of the institution" verbiage they use to perpetrate a lot of maltreatment or harassment.

​They caught guys bringing the plastic garbage cans for their rooms out to dump then and exchanging them with drugs hidden in the bottom. Now we aren't allowed to dispose of garbage or even set it out of our cells. I don't feel like that is any sort of harassment. That is a legitimate security interest, in my opinion.