May 29, 2023

Memorial Day. We remember to stand but do not both stand and salute.

I get to go outside for recreation today! Sunshine! I see a few other guys familiar from Kenosha are here and in the same housing unit. A guy comes up to me and tells me he watched my trial. We end up collecting Mark Jensen (from Kenosha) as we are walking around the track. The track is about a third of a mile rectangle that surrounds a kickball diamond and a few half fours basketball courts, as well as an unkempt volleyball court and a concrete pad holding a pull-up and dip bars. Why'd yes everyone seem to know more about my case than me? Mark has some particularly ominous predictions for my expected appeal. He was an asshole to me when we were int he same housing unit in Kenosha and don't understand why he would bother to comment about anything. 

Recreation is supposed to be an hour bur the guards only let us have about 45 minutes. Recreation is scheduled Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Monday and Wednesday we get a five minute shower afterward. We get no shower on Friday, but get one on Saturday. Don't break a sweat! Trapped inside about a six by twelve box with another adult can create an odorous atmosphere. 

Showers and phone calls happen on rotation and if people yell out of their cell then the guards "slow the phone down." So when one person misbehaves then the rest of us suffer. They do not consider it a punishment though, because Federal requirements only specify one call per month. Everything more than that is a privilege. Apparently, my privileges can be based on another inmates behavior. Still failing to discern any reformative or rehabilitative benefit or interest. More like childish retaliation from what I can tell. It's much easier than doing any paperwork. ​