Sept. 11, 2013

First Week of August 2013

by Jeremy Pinson (author's profile)

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First Week of August 2013

On Monday at 4:30 am, my nose began to bleed and I bled profusely for an hour. When staff arrived, I was removed to a holding cell where I remained for 10 hours. By the time a doctor arrived, I was tired, irritated, and not at all concerned with my nose.

On Tuesday, an inmate broke the fire sprinkler in his cell, flooding our my cell. I had to clean up this mess, all several hundred gallons, with a towel. A single towel.

On Wednesday, an inmate set his cell on fire and staff emptied 2 tanks of fire retardant powder into his cell, but not before the heat set off his sprinklers. Guess who got to clean up the mess? Me, of course. A new pen-pal wrote me from Russia.

Today, the psychologist came to hear me vent my depression and frustration at being housed at ADX Florence, the 9th circle of Hell. She could only agree at how miserable this place is and vowed to keep working to get me transferred.

So this was my week. Crazy as usual.

Jeremy Pinson
8/8/13

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