A newer inmate is complaining that it is supposedly required that inmates are required to be provided four hours of rec per week and we only get one and a half to three. The needs of the institution trump all prisoners rights and the guards are supposedly interested in negotiating better contracts so they intentionally move slow to demonstrate they want more money. Leveraging incompetence for better pay? How poorly can you do your job to make the most money. Rewarding counter productivity and frauding tax payers? What occurred to me is that laws which do not prescribe a remedy, and requirements that hold no consequence are essentially not what they claim to be. A good law says what it intends to accomplish, what is required to satisfy the policy, and what is required when the policy fails to be satisfied. The penalty for speeding is a varigated cost depending on how much you exceeded the posted limit. The interest that is protected is fortified by the issuance of a citation. If inmates don't get hot water, recreation, legal access, or whatever, there is no responsibility if the people who have the least ability to defend themselves legally can manage to bring the arguments to a court who has a myriad of excuses to dismiss the issues, and creates a standard for refusing what is pretended to be a requirement. Delay all complaints until the limits expire and refuse to address the issues?
I was asked by one of the inmates across from me if I had requested to be staffed at Dodge. He was there as a kitchen worker for a while and was going to be a legal clerk with a friend of his. I told him I wouldn't ask to be housed at Dodge because the librarian. He tells me that she is always doing inappropriate things for attention and that guards used to gossip about her. One guard, he says, told him that she sued the prison and got a big settlement but wears thin, skin-tight shirts without any brazier to draw attention. He even goes into detail about how she tries to bend over in front of the guys she likes and how she showcases her nipples. He even points out how she pretends she isn't fishing for attention because her shirts have a high neck line but why her behavior seems to be to antagonize another possible lawsuit. If that is true, then I was just a victim of her latest "tease" at a possible law suit. I have no way to see if you sued the prison or any staff but can't see how she would still work there, unless they had terminated the other staff person? I am sure people are wondering why I am not writing but I am out of envelopes and I am disinclined to ask for more. I only get five written pages of journal sent per envelope (instead of the usual 7 or 8) so what few I get go quickly. I am bothering to mention because some people have resent old letters expecting I failed to receive them. I don't get enough phone access to call and tell everyone. A lack of response is not for lack of want but lack of ability. If you send envelopes, remember it may take weeks before they make it to me and then I often reprioritize who gets a response which is always my intent to write to people going through the worse tragedies first. I suppose it is just my effort to be there for them the way they have been here for me. I really want to carry on the other conversations and correspondence. More than anything else right now, I enjoy the one or two days per week they bring personal mail. Some of the guys were talking about old movies and my neighbor asked if I had ever seen Stand by Me. When I was maybe about seven years old I was playing in some drainage ditch with my brother and two other boys. We got leeches all over our legs. That movie makes me think of that. We didn't know salt would chase them off and resorted to pulling the creepy looking aliens off of us which left the little sucker holes where they bit in. So gross. The guys ask about The Outsiders too. My head doesn't hold on to movie quotes very well, but I remember enjoying that movie too. "Stay Golden, Pony Boy."
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