I am no
closer to going to general population than i was 26 years ago
It is very obvious here that
they have no intention of releasing certain people to general population – they
are issuing rules violation reports and finding [certain] people guilty for
things that make it obvious that it’s politics. I mentioned in a previous
letter that we were issued “rules violations reports.”
I believe that the closer
certain people get to being considered for release, these “Rules Violations
Reports” will be used to justify retaining those people in SHU.
I am no closer to a general
population than i was 26 years ago. And the same thing can be said for a number
of prisoners.
And because so many of us are being issued “Rules Violations
Reports” that have absolutely nothing at all to do with gang activity (except
in the warped thinking of the i.g.i. [institutional gang investigators] no one
is interested in engaging in any of what the Cdcr proposes – and no one
should expect us to subordinate ourselves to things like this.
The Cdcr should be willing to
admit that certain people will not be released for whatever reason – and then
commit themselves to developing programs for those prisoners.
The state would love to have
us – still – fighting this battle years from now – while they continue to
subject us to torture – and deprive us the opportunities to re-connect with our
families and loved ones, and really, nothing has changed. There are no programs
at all in place – and, the policies as to the privileges that were available in
SDP [Step Down Program] have been reduced.
People here want to program,
they look for light at the end of the tunnel, but only see darkness.
Written Dec. 28, 2014,
received Jan. 13th, 2015.
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