PRISONER EXPRESS

Administrative segregation is a building that is isolated from the rest of the buildings. This building is called 12 building. The purpose of this building is to isolate violent, aggressive gang members, P.C. (protective custody, who are people that can’t make it in population because they are too weak to fight back and don’t want to be someone’s girlfriend.), and snitches. When you are assigned to Seg., you are required to take a physical. Once the physical is done, you are escorted or rolled on a stretcher (because people like me didn’t want to walk from High Security with shackles on). You get to a pod that has 84 cells. All are single cells. And they’re about nine feet long and about six feet wide. It has a bunk, sink/toilet connection, barred up lights and sometimes a table, depending on what level you are. (There are three levels, 1, 2, 3.) The window is about four feet long and the width is from the top of your fingers to the second joint of your finger. It’s made with a four inch thick plexiglass. And it’s placed three to four inches from the ceiling, on the wall. Once the team (five men in protective gear; that includes helmets, vest padding, leg padding and arm padding) gets you to the cell door and it opens, whether you are being carried or walked, they tell you to “lay down on the floor. If you get up, force will be used on you, for you to comply with the direct order.” Once the shackles are off your feet, they tell you again, “do not move or try to get up. If you do, necessary force will be applied.” Some people try to get up anyway. And when they do, the point man with the shield hollers, “he is getting up.” And all five laws rush him, hitting the person with the shield from behind, splitting his head open. The five men back out of the cell. When the door is closed you are given an order to come to the tray slot and relinquish the handcuffs. If the person is knocked out from the five man rush, the Sgt. and Lt. tell the person again, “come to the tray slot and relinquish the handcuffs.” The Sgt. will say in his gas mask, “the inmate is not complying.” The Lt. will say, “tell him again. If he doesn’t comply, gas him.” So the Sgt. will say, “Inmate, this is your second order. Come to the tray slot and relinquish the handcuffs or chemical agents will be used.” If the person doesn’t come in five seconds, the Sgt. will spray six ounces (a whole can) of gas in the cell, close the tray slot and wait two minutes, before he repeats the request. Two people have died because of that. Once the person complies with the order, he is made to strip out butt naked and stay like that for two days. If a person is back here for beating up a law, he is gassed after the camera is off and not fed for the remainder of the card (cards are run four days on, four days off.) He will not go to shower or anything. Nine times out of 10 he was beat up by the laws on that building, where he came from. The medical staff will falsify documents and statements about your condition. You can get beat up and get 12 stitches. The medical personnel will say, “he has a lil bruise here and there and a scratch there.” Because there aren’t any rehabilitating programs back here, people turn into psych patients; from throwing crap and urine, to eating it, to talking to oneself all day and night, to kicking and beating on the door or steel that’s connected to the sink/toilet, to having body odor from not showering, (I’ve had three neighbors, back-to-back, that didn’t shower), to flooding the run. This is when you hold something at the bottom of your toilet and start flushing it until it overflows. With your door closed off at the bottom and the side with newspapers wrapped in towels or a jumper, you let the water get as high as you want it. When it’s there, you stop flushing and remove the towels and/or jumpers from the bottom and side of the door. Some people get put on psych meds to calm them down or make them sleep. Somebody is always getting gassed. Either because their food, rec or shower was taken, or an officer got threatened. Somebody won’t come out of the dayroom, rec yard, or shower. When that happens, they suit up the five man team and/or shoot gas or spray it. In the showers, they will spray it. In the dayroom or outside rec, they will shoot the gas gun. There is no recreation in groups. There are six dayrooms and four rec yards. Three dayrooms and two rec yards on one side of the picket and three and two on the other side. The sections are labeled A-F. One person in each day room and rec yard. On the level one pods A-D it is pretty much quiet. Every now and then there will be some cell warriors. A cell warrior is when people tell you they’re going to kick your ass, f*ck you, you got that p*ssy, you ain’t going to fight, you’re a n*gger, p*ckerwood, sp*ck. But they never do any fighting because they can’t get at each other. But, when the door accidentally rolls while the other one is in the run, nothing happens. All a person can see in the front of the cell is the day room, the picket or some stairs. The door is made up of nothing but steel. There are two pieces of wire, about four feet long and handwidth wide, about a foot and a half apart. In some parts of the cell, from the back window you can see a race car track, the warden’s house, a parking lot, 1, 3, and 13 building, woods, trees, and some part of the highway. The only thing people can do back here besides cell warrior is play chess (by calling out the pieces from one number to the next), playing softball (boardgame), read, listen to a radio (if you have one), write, or kill those females (masturbate). Let me clear this “killing” issue up. Most people out there will think that’s perverted, animalistic, etc… But the thing is, most of these females prefer to be jacked off on. For #1, it makes their day easier and go by faster. Because back here, 84 cells going to red, shower, and feeding is a lot of work. Each person gets one hour of rec and 10 to 15 minutes to shower. When they feed, it takes about an hour, to an hour and a half. That’s if they don’t have to suit up. If they suit up, that slows down everything. These people work 12 hours a day. And they’re entitled to have everybody rec and showered. So calculate that. Eighty four people, one hour and 15 minutes to rec and shower by 12 hours. These females know that 10 to 15 minutes of their time will knock out about 70 percent of their work, which will give them plenty of time to sleep. Also, some females don’t mind it, because they know that most of us get off our stress that way. And they know that it’s safer that way. Because they are not having sex with us. There are also some that prefer to be jacked on, then to have to give it up to the ranking officials. Either orally or intercourse. I don’t expect the outside to understand that, because they can’t relate to it, unless they have worked at an institution. The people out there see it as perverted, like I stated earlier, but they fail to see that everybody self-satisfies themselves. Either in front of their boy/girlfriend, phone sex, watching a porn or just fantasizing. It’s not a difference. People in here get off to “get one” or to relieve stress. Just like people out there in the world. The only difference is, the people in here are locked up and y’all are not. There isn’t too much solitude back here. Unless a person goes to rec outside by himself. I guess you can say this is isolation, Ad. Seg.. I know you asked for the things I could see from this cell every day. But you can’t get an idea of the surrounds or activity of this life without going into details, to a certain extent. There is also something called a “unit policy,” a bunk restriction policy. It has nothing in the cell, but a hole to use the bathroom for. You are butt naked, with no lights, table, toilet or bunk. They use this to try to break people from jacking the slot (refusing to let officers close the slot.) A person is in that cell for three days. If he doesn’t cause any problems or noise he will be let out. He will only eat a food loaf, which is scraps of carrots, greens, and peas mixed in with oatmeal, covered with cornmeal, and fried. That’s what you eat when you jack the slot. This is just a little detailed event for you, to get started.