After the sham of a disciplinary hearing and now having completed discipline, I am shackled and loaded onto a bus with about 29 other inmates to be delivered to various prisons on an inmate delivery route. The front of the bus is security caged as well as the back. The rear cage also has a door to the outside. Two guards ride up front and one rides in back. Also, in back next to the guard cage is another cage with a toilet. Some of the inmates are offloaded and unshackled before we leave the parking lot to walk to the minimum security facility right next door. Then we drive over and sit outside Waupun Prison, just a few blocks away, for a while awaiting a couple inmates being added to the trip. Hours of driving and a few prisons later we get to Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in Boscobel, Wisconsin. The old "Super Max." Lots of fence and razor wire.
They pull the entire bus through the gates and all the way inside a building before they let us off the bus. Stripped and searched a second time this morning. The two other inmates get sent to a different unit and I am sent to "Charlie." To my understanding, there are six units: Alpha (the hole), Beta, Charlie (the ghetto), Delta, Echo, and Foxtrot. Each unit has four divisions called "ranges." Each range is forty cells. Range one will/does have cells 101-140. Range two has cells 201-240. So, my address is C-110. First range. "The Ghetto." Often so loud the guards cannot hear what inmates are saying. They play their radios through the vent so I am bombarded with at least six inmates trying to yell at each other from the cell door and the vent on the other side of the room. The room itself is a concrete box about 6 ft by 12 ft. The door opens to a bunk along the right and light switch and intercom on the wall opposite that. A tiny table at the end of the bed with a metal shelf beyond that. Center of the wall opposite the door is the stainless steel toilet/sink. Straight ahead of the door is a shower nozzle with a button below it usually only active between 6 and 9pm. Near the floor under the shower is the vent people are yelling through in front of that, next to the toilet, is the floor drain. The ceiling is angled so that the high end is above the shower, toilet sink, and metal shelf. That upper corner edge holds a horizontal stainless steel strip with a window about 5 inches tall. It also holds the exhaust vent and a little box with a lens that expectedly part of cell surveillance before the camera it presumably held was removed when they converted the facility from Super Max to just Max. The door is dark red. Some may say it is the color of dried blood, perhaps walls and ceiling are off white. Floor is just polished concrete. The light is the usual painted white metal security fixture with two fluorescent sticks. Soon after I arrive an inmate worker stops at my cell and notices I am new. He asks why I am in the "bad unit." Tonight, I ask about video visits through the vent. Some of the guys recognize me from CourtTV. Oh, a few did on the bus ride too. One of the guys talks about how lovely it is here. I suppose I will be cherishing all of the people that write to me quite a lot in here.
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