role officer "agent" and they are barely tolerable.
So, inside wasn't that bad after all, I see now. Everything is comparative.
The
judge gave me 3 years on parole but CDCR wrote a reg to modify all
paroles and my new parole date 2038 when I am 102. Calif. justice
in action. The Calif. courts are in lock step with CDCR so nothing
good can happen until our legal actions are heard in federal court.
Without "jailhouse lawyers", most of us wouldn't have a chance. Sure,
the quality varies from inmate to inmate, but there are some great people
on the inside willing to spend hours trying to help inmates get even a
little justice. Some inmates ridicule them all the time, but that's
just their way to feel better about themselves by criticizing others.
Human nature still sucks, in or out of prison.
For
3 years now your newsletter has come to me, no matter where I am.
Every issue is always helpful. Enclosed are some stamps to help you
mail out your many issues, again and again. You are so dedicated
to spend hours and hours of your time and dollars and dollars on postage
money. If only a handful of people would send you some postage stamps,
your life would be so much easier. Pass the word along.
Take
care, my friend,
Jim, Victorville, California
Greetings Sam,
Blessings
to you. I hope you are very well. Thanks for the Sept Frontiersman.
Yes,
your work has made things better for many people [Some
Good Ideas, September, page 1]. That's why we keep wanting
to read what you write & publish. Yes, I do believe things would
be worse if the world had been w/o your works. It's also more than
merely possible that your works, insights & views will markedly increase
in awakening people at large making a difference in the minds of many &
the lives of many & their world.
So
for the prisoner whose ltr
you published in that same issue, from Corcoran, beginning on p1:
If I could reach out to him, I'd like to relate the following: I've
been to Corcoran level 4 prison 3 times on & off from 1997 to 2014,
including in the worst hell hole SHU's there. No prisoner in Calif
history was abused more than me, including there, though my actual conduct
was exemplary even thru their nonstop gauntlets of horror. Most
of the "Green Wall" gang guards went to Corcoran when the senate hearings
on the Green Wall murders & abuses left here (SVSP) to there.
Corcoran does have some of the most insane, including criminally insane
and sadistic guards in CDC & on earth. I say that having been
in the worst mainline Level 4 prisons for over 20 years & another 15
or more years in SNY & not for ratting anyone out nor gang drop-out
status I've never been in one. And I've had over 50 retaliatory
transfers often to set me up to be brutally murdered. I say these
things only so you can know I've been where you are. Besides that,
I'm innocent w/no crime history in my life; and I realize what's
being done w/the phasing out of SNY status.
What
I can offer is this; get yourself out of Corcoran. Listen to
where most of the violence & abuses & worst guards are concentrated
today (Corc, Donovan, IOP, High Desert, etc.) & avoid going to
those places. There are presently a lot of CDC prisons where those
worst horrors have been phased out for years. I thought I'd never
see it occur; but in the past few years I have. I perceive
you are buried so deep in the dark tunnel of CDC's nightmare prisoner treatment
that you can't see there is light elsewhere. I write & urge you
to get to one of these other places before the really depraved sadists
at Corc. do so much damage to your status based on your jacket they fabricate
that you can't get to a better place either for years, or ever.
Sam,
even your jokes make a difference. I use some in our Toastmaster's
Club
Thanks
for publishing my
ltr in that same issue....
a prisoner, Soledad, California
Thank you, for providing a voice to the voiceless, and reason to the
less-reasoned.
a prisoner, Stockton, California
Keep up the good work.
Sir Donald
Dear Sam....
Yes,
you are right [editorial
comment, October, pages 2 and 3]. The prison authorities
definitely stir the pot by manipulating prisoners. And hey, Corcoran
4B, read the letter from Sticky of San Diego [October,
page 3]. Now that's what I'm talking about. Hey Sticky,
you write one hell of a positive message letter.
I've
heard that Chowchilla is a great place to do time and I'm working my way
there. And Corcoran 4B, I don't like child molesters, rapists or
rats either, but you know what, they can do their own time, and I'll do
mine, because like Sticky, I have my eye on the prize and I should be out
somewhere in the 2030's. I hope you change your outlook Corcoran,
prison is a suck ass place to grow old and die of old age. I wanna
spend my few remaining years breathing free air. So if that means
I gotta program, then I'm programming....
Your
friend,
a prisoner, Soledad, California
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