Plenty to complain about. Injustice? The devil who is always leaning on his elbow causing my back to hurt? The power of Christ is failing to compel him. I have backed way off on physical therapy as it seemed to be making things worse. Some of the letters that people send and the jokes or memes are such an excellent piece of normalcy.
I have always been housed with inmates classified as the worst and that largely includes mental disease. They put someone on this unit, range, that does a high pitched and prolonged "woooh" at all times of day or night. I already don't sleep much but his little cry for attention is awfully annoying. Multiple attorneys I spoke with about the appeal said I should expect at least another three years working on an appeal. So, maybe about another 1,100 days without proper medical care, dental care, or even just a silence that might offer me a chance at sleeping for more than an hour at a shot. The stress definitely increases my hair loss. I can gather it and compare my days. Sleepless nights are really shocking. Less than four hours is ugly. Four hours seems to decrease the rate that hair abandons my scalp, but it is still a lot. At some point the locks of love will have to go. The strays tend to collect on the blanket and tickle me so I spend time looking over my bedding to collect the troublemakers. Better when it is my own hair and not someone else's. Now that we have our names ironed on to our underwear I hope I have to pick someone' else's pubes out of my drawers much less often. Being in jail or prison is really gross. Jail had a guy with foot fungus so bad that when he took off his sock, I almost gagged at the sight and smell of a long green fur carpeted fuzz between his toes. Any effort to wash his feet would have displaced the growth. Powdery white at the base out of which a vibrant green fur had sprouted. If you think that is too gross then I should probably skip the stories of things stuck to the shower walls. Or the story of the guy with genital warts... in his mouth. Not only was I in jail with him but he was a case where he sought some sort of relief because he wasn't receiving proper medical care for it. Not only were inmates required to wear socks that were worn by other inmates, else be subjected to discipline, but also would be disciplined for trying to keep a single plastic spoon so we didn't need the spork distributed for lunch and dinner. The alternative is to use disposable flatware, but they would us it as an excuse to not only punish you, but also throw property away. Legislative imaginers don't actually account for executive managers because taking people into custody and subjecting them to all sorts of potentially hazardous biological contact just doesn't make sense to me. I don't know what illness a person has that the guards just throw away the bedding and mattress after the inmate leaves, but it has to be worse than gross. I saw that happen numerous times in jail, and at Dodge. Even worse, they put the inmates that are troublesome in those bunks without cleaning and sanitizing them. So, if any fluid or flesh was left on the bunk frame or wall, it is still there afterward. Vomit, blood, urine, pus; all smeared on the surfaces. People going through withdrawals or suffering Covid or other types of flu, they really don't care. Well, normal people do. The standard that develops by people who don't wash their feet or care for their teeth is really low. Cleaners are so watered down that an inmate can guzzle a bottle and not need medical attention. Toilet brushes and the rags for cleaning your sink and table provided in the mop bucket wringer. Kenosha jail was horrible, and now I think of those experiences every time I wipe down the walls and floor after showering in my cell. This place, I get to use my own spoon. No mouth or genital warts, thankfully. Just other people's body hair in my bedding leaving me with the overall impression that it should be much harder to put people in jail, and prison. And it should especially be faster than 1,100 days (or more) to get them out if they never should have been there in the first place. Oh, another 1,100 days. More than three years ago, previously, I was arrested and I can expect to see at least another three years. The money that was raised which helped enable my family to get an attorney was awesome. Public defenders are supposedly taking at least thirteen months right now just to be appointed. A large case like mine, with a three week trial would be strung out into the longest possible timeframe. The way I see it; raising that money saved me a year of just waiting. Innocent until... a prosecution has a bunch of people change information to frame you, and then guilty until you can prove you're innocent? With a system that allows (and encourages) that to happen it is more an assurance of injustice than a guarantee of justice. Meals are served with a white plastic "disposable" spoon. They wrap a napkin around the handles which I often do not use. There are no trees I can hug in the rec yard but I collect the napkins and tuck them into the top of the tissue roll on its side. Its like a little bouquet for cleanliness. Little paper flower swirls. Pick and flower and clean something? It also allows me to pick up the roll with just one finger by pushing it in next to the napkins. My functional style. I write a lot about the same sorts of things I suppose but it is usually what is on my mind. I cannot get back to my kids. My daughter will be an adult and my boys will have spent most of their childhood without me. It is a best case scenario because of the wrongs that we all know and plainly witnessed during the bogus trial. I think people should know what it is like and how long it takes to fix this sort of thing. Especially anyone serving on a jury. For anyone reading this that donated money to help, thank you. Even though we don't necessarily realize it yet, what you have done so far is at least a years worth of difference to a ridiculously protracted process. And, for the caliber of attorney, may also be the difference between success and failure. Truly impressive. We got this!
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Ashley
10/26/2023 16:09:08
Hey,great more journals …. Keep em coming👍. Explained your predicament to a legal buddy of mine and got him to view trial on YouTube … he’s response is “ where’s is the beyond reasonable doubt” ? Shocking??? Keep fighting y’all. I just ordered my friend a campaign t-shirt😀👍
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