We hear all the time that they [staff] are doing 'averages'. Running numbers. Compiling their stats.
My question. About what? Who will re-offend? How many of us will come back here? Whatever numbers they are running and stats they are compiling, they cry about the information the gather. For the love of God man! Ever heard the saying "throw a dog a bone?" Check this out....
So the state says they can't afford programs so that inmates can have the choice to educate themselves. DUH! So let our people send us the material so we can do it. OR sell us the material. Really, I am shocked they don't since the prison system is so worried about money. Use canteen for instance. That's one of the biggest forms of corruption. Ever heard of price gauging? Sure you have. It's illegal on the street. Not here. And why not? Since it's our people's money we spend. Not ours! But, they think it's no big deal. Here is a fine example.....they sell Ramen Noodle Soups at canteen. Currently the women's prison canteen sells Ramen Noodle Soups for $.38, and the same exact package of dried noodles waiting to be microwaved is sold for $.58 here at the male's prison. Why?
If I leave a faucet running in the bathroom, or throw away a bar of soap or roll of tissue, I have an officer yelling at me how his tax money and my families taxes pay for that. OK...so you have a point!
But what about the other side of the story? Like canteen? It's all their [our families] money that buys our canteen items. When they confiscate my shoes because they are torn and I tried to sew them, my people's money bought those too. Or, what about when an officer gets pissed at an inmate in the chow hall. Want to know how they punish you? They tell you to go dump your tray of food into the trash can. A full tray of food....they make you dump it into the trash and leave the chow hall. All because you talked or were not in a perfect line. Some petty rule you broke and you are to waste food. So what about the taxes that pay to feed us then? Not to mention all the people who go without food all across the world. Forget the inmate you just made go without.
So yeah. This whole tax thing is only used when convenient. Whatever screws us [prisoners] more. Jack prices on canteen, limit or take away education, and take away the sewed sneakers when it stands to hurt the inmate and set him back And dump the tray of food too....should it prove to punish the inmate more. Where's the reason?
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