Letters to the Editor Hey Sam,
Season's greetings to ya from [location name withheld].
I just got your December issue of Frontiersman! Thank you.
The article you wrote about us colonizing Mars was pretty
interesting, but if you ask me I think we would be much better off wasting
our tax payer's money building big fancy homes in the North Arctic pole,
and the South Antarctic pole, because at least here on Earth we have plenty
of water and air.... [Written December 3, 2021] —H. L., a prisoner ![15x15 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/15x15_Page_Background.gif) Hey Sam,
I've got the worst Christmas story to tell ya, early on the morning of
12-24-21, another inmate in my barracks made a prank phone call to the PREA
hotline pretending he was me, he gave them my name and he said he was going
to kill himself.
The PREA hotline people immediately notified this prison's security, and they came rushing to my cell, and whenever they asked me if I had called
the PREA hotline threatening to kill myself, I told them the truth that it was not me. I'm not suicidal!
But [prison guard] told me that he did not care, he told me that he was locking me up on suicide watch. I repeatedly begged him to go
get me the warden because I did not call the PREA hotline phone number and
I sure as hell wasn't suicidal. But he refused to go get me the warden,
and he told me to turn around and catch the cuffs, and he took me down the
hallway and he locked me inside of a small holding cage, and he demanded
that I hand him all of my clothes including my boxer shorts. So I was
butt ass naked, and other inmates and other security officers were walking
past me looking at my naked body, and [prison guard] went back to
my old cell and he packed up my 2 big bags of personal property, and he was
responsible for putting it all into safe storage for me.
Then [prison guard] came and he locked me in a freezing cold suicide watch cell with a video camera recording everything. I had no clothes, no toilet paper, it was a horrible night, and on Christmas morning, I finally got a visit from the mental health lady, and I explained to her that I did not call the PREA hotline, and I was not suicidal and I beg her to take
me off of suicide watch and give me some clothes, but she tells me no, not
until I complete my 72-hours of treatment. I tell her I don't need
treatment. I'm not suicidal. This is torture. I begged
her to go get me the warden. But she refused, she said I had to complete
the 72-hours.
Well 4-days later, she had me taken off of suicide watch, but for some
weird reason they kept me butt ass naked another 2 days until I spotted
the warden walking past the cell and I yelled at him, and I explained to
him what had happened to me. Then the warden ordered [prison guard]
to get me my property but whenever [prison guard] brought me my property, there was a big bag of it missing. And whenever I complained to him about it, he says, "Well bitch that all you're gonna get!"
He had robbed me of all my new hygiene items, cups, bowls, family photos, legal work, lots of books and magazines, and I filed a grievance complaint, and I wrote letters to the ADC Internal Affairs and asked them to investigate this. I also wrote a letter to the PREA coordinator about all of this, too. But so far, nobody has responded or came to speak to me yet.... [Written January 21, 2022] —H. L., a prisoner ![15x15 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/15x15_Page_Background.gif) Dear Sam,
This letter comes to wish you the happiest of holidays, help defer a minutia of your costs and share statistics I'm sure Big Brother would prefer we not
know.
| O judgment! thou
art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. —Shakespeare |
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The State of California Finance Department reports the 2021-22 fiscal year of the multi-billion dollar operation of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) will incur the annual cost of $113,000, per prisoner, per year.
On May 11, 2010, the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) reported in ELDERLY INMATES IN CALIFORNIA PRISONS, the cost to incarcerate an elderly prisoner is two to three times more than the average prisoner.
Using the LAO's calculus at 2 1/2 times the cost of an average prisoner the cost to incarcerate an elderly prisoner is now $282,000 per year, per prisoner.
In 2017, on recommendation of the judiciary, academia and legislators,
Penal Code 305 Elderly Parole was passed.
On October 20, 2020, Court of Appeal of California (in re Staich, 2020
cal, app. Lexus 975), assessing CDCR, cites: "Elderly Parole
program does not appear to have had much practical influence on the parole
process."
Confirming the Court of Appeal's observation, Board of Parole Hearings, 2020, REPORT OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS, proudly reports on page #7 "Parole Denial...percentage," a high of 82% denial of Elderly Parole hearings.
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