Although it’s been a rough time going at this new institution where the correctional officers or I should say the new warden have constantly tried to push us inmates over the edge by instituting new unnecessary rules and constantly shaking us down taking our possessions. I recently had a watch taken during a facility-wide shakedown that I had since 2009. I carried it through five different prisons from high to low security and cherished it. now it’s gone. it was given to me by another prisoner when he went home, he got it from his friend who bought it when Iron Man watches first became available to inmates back in 1983. the watch was the same age as me. Everyone who owned the watch had gone home with no holes in them and not missing any parts. and this administration took it from me with no confiscation form or any given reason for doing so. And I’m not the only one who they have done wrong at this place. and the officers here just go along with the orders they are given without out showing any remorse. thats the environment I’m currently living in right now. but I keep my head up and I have about five more years to go. the programs of the first step act which I qualify for have given me hope that I too can make it out and become another success story regardless of how these country bumpkin correctional officers with no conscience think of me. I see myself as above them. I am a higher being on a higher plane of existence. That’s how I keep going everyday.
