July 18, 2024

I probably do not do a very good job of explaining what normal prison life is like. Some things may seem normal to unfamiliar observers but they are not. One thing the guards do as a security measure is take a mirror on a stick and check the underside of chairs and tables to make sure inmates aren't stashing contraband to retrieve for themselves later on or to pass it to another inmate. This morning at rec the unit manager is again out of his office to watch inmates. He goes to the bench seats at the end of the basketball court and is bending over low enough to position his head under the seat. Inmates are confused by him checking under seats while we are at rec. Apparently it is something they do not do in front of inmates and also how he is going about it is abnormal enough to invite the usual accusations that the unit manager is "offering his ass." One inmate says the unit manager is "blowing in your eye" (soliciting) if you'll blow in his eye. It does seem to me that he is out here pretending to do some job duty but doing it peculiarly enough to demonstrate he is up to something else. It doesn't matter to me if staff is gay, but after they lied to discipline me at Dodge I have been trying to understand the reason behind it. So when the staff advertise themselves it becomes juxtapose their restrictions on inmates having provocative pictures of their significant partners and how heterosexual interests are points of persecution. So much so that they are welcome to make up an obvious lie and impose discipline. Sounds sort of crazy but it's actually way beyond that. Guys are welcomed to take hormone treatment to "gender flip" or match their biological gender to their psychological gender. That used to be called gender dysphoria but I am not certain of the current politically correct term. Based on reported depression and suicide rates, I wonder if persecuting people for sexual disposition and gender preference of themselves or their partners really should be considered cruel and unusual punishment. I don't even feel unusual should be the argument. Cruel and unjustifiable punishment is probably a more appropriate phase. Anyway, this place continues to confuse me.