MIM updates from prison struggles

Starvation in prison
When I brought it to the medical staff's attention, the response of the day was, I had to have AIDS or Hep C and be under 150 lbs to receive anything.


Trumped up gaing validation
More than enough time, as I'd spent 3 years in the county in single occupancy cells, a year and a half on Solano's level three facility I on lockdown and I've spent over six months now in Administrative Segregation (the hole), where I'm facing a "gang validation." As is well known, the State applies social Judo tactics, so to speak, in order to keep the masses off balance and misdirected. In these divide and conquer scenarios social organizations and movements for resisting oppression and exploitation, and in furtherance of equality, empowerment, and dignity, find their focus degenerated and misdirected towards other members of their own backgrounds.

This is nothing new, and we still don't make it difficult for them to do. These tactics have literally been perfected to a science: within the confines of the CDCR. The technical aspects of these tactics are ever evolving, seemingly made up as they go, as well as laid out in a long winded maze of words (which seem really to only be there for show or manipulation) in the California code of Regulations Title 15 and the Department Operations Manual.

Getting a kick out of sniveling
It's not uncommon to hear of prisoners alleging fear, intimidation and retaliation for filing grievances against those who have custody over them. Save for the particularly egregious cases of abuse, where prisoners have suffered obvious and "provable" physical or other injury, such complaints are often rebuffed by prison guard supervisors, the media and the public.

Prisoners who submit such complaints are often labeled trouble makers, rabble-rousers or snivelers. They are generally described and dismissed as disgruntled.

However, it may surprise some to find that officers can, and sometimes do, file more complaints and grievances than those they have charge over. Here in California, a former minion of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation gives a seldom seen view into the usually impenetrable world of the inner workings of prison personnel politics.