A BRIEF HISTORY OF SHIRLEYWORLD - The Madness Journals
Chapter XXVIII

BREAKING NEWS!!! BREAKING NEWS!!!

Lt. Urine (formerly Lt. Whirlwind) has been transferred over to the minimum security facility here (let's call it ShirleyWorld Light) as part of a misconduct investigation into her abusive and possibly sexual deviant behavior. I personally spoke to a prisoner who filed a formal PREA complaint against her. (PREA stands for "Prison Rape Elimination Act"). This prisoner claims that she entered his cell, while he was in it, (which in and of itself is a violation of policy) and addressed him with sexually suggestive words. Our information is that once this con reported this the crack investigation team here (some of whom we have been told are not fans of Lt. Urine as she has treated them like crap in the past) they confirmed on security camera footage that she did in fact enter this man's cell, again a violation of policy. Now, this video footage does not record sound so they cannot prove what was said, but I always take the word of a con over the word of a guard as usually the con has much more to lose by speaking out. Plus the fact is that we see each and every day just how abusive Lt. Urine is to prisoners. She hates cons, but maybe that gets her juices flowing: I don't know, but I would never put it past her to talk funky linguistics to some young man in his cell. Shame on her for forgetting she made enemies among cops as well and that some of those enemies may want to put a boot across her throat if they can. I feel real bad for the guys up at the minimum as she must be angry as a hornet and fit to be tied. The prison gossip mill has fast traveling information so there is no doubt that the men at ShirleyWorld Light know why Lt. Urine has been reassigned up there. There is also more to the story, but I am still working on getting that information, and when I know you will know.

One of Lt. Urine's last acts before she was transferred for deviant behavior allegations was to order that "holes" be drilled in the bottom of each and every trash barrel here at the prison. That means that about 720 trash barrels had to be drilled - the prison is falling down around us but they have time to drill hundreds of trash barrels. Now they falsely claim that the reason for doing this is because the prisoners make home brew in these barrels (can you blame them - the system has taken all the positive activities away) but as everyone knows, homebrew is made in plastic bags, not in these barrels. The real reason they poked holes in the barrels was because men use the barrels to do laundry. Lt. Urine and her degenerate captain friends are the Regional Clothesline Task Force and cannot tolerate the fact that men ignore their royal mandate against clotheslines and laundry. Is it too much to ask that a man clean his own clothing? The prison laundry ruins our clothes, clothes that our families pay for in a sort of unsanctioned tax against them. You see, the DOC cannot afford to supply us with proper clothing when they are shelling out $362,000,000.00 per year for salaries. These guards hate us so much that they would spend days going from cell to cell with a maintenance worker drilling holes in barrels just so we have to wear dirty clothes. Never mind that the gym roof leaks, the Voc Ed building roof leaks, the walls are pulling away from the floor in the chow hall, as well as there being a whole host of other structural defects that need immediate attention (and for which the facility promised the DPH they would repair in their last corrective plan after inspection). No, the top priority is to honor the needs of the Regional Clothesline Task Force and Middlesex County Anti-Laundry Initiative by drilling holes in 720 trash barrels. Typical DOC!

We almost cannot believe the fact that there is another class of guard recruits training across the street. As with typical DOC logic - jobs first, rehabilitation last - they have converted most of the minimum security facility (ShirleyWorld Light) into the DOC Training Academy. It perplexes me that the economy is in such a downturn but the DOC has been able to have four classes of new recruits in the short time I have been here at ShirleyWorld. You should see these kids when they walk through, a vastly white bread mixture of men and women, with a few brown skins thrown in. What these minorities don't know is that the DOC guard culture is one of the most racist work forces in the state. If they do take the job, and after forfeiting their souls, they will be treated only a little better than the cons. We hear these "cracker" guards make fun of the black guards as they walk away. True cowards, they are nice to their face but act like Archie Bunker when they are not around. There are do-nothing guards roaming all over this camp and no matter how many more they hire each year, they still claim understaffing. Just this weekend they had extra cops working in three units (there are two guards assigned to each unit and Saturday three units had three guards sitting on their duffs all day) and even with the extra staff they still closed the library. Remember, we already have the highest staff to prisoner ratio in the nation (1 guard for every 2.2 prisoners) but they continue to claim understaffing and produce a 47% recidivism rate. Who authorizes these additional recruit classes? Shouldn't the taxpayer have a say in this? Don't these new recruits know that they are going to have to sell their soul to join this workforce which has such high suicide, domestic violence, and drug & alcoholism rates? Don't they know that there is no more demeaning occupation than keeping a man (or woman) in a cage? You are now joining the "dregs of humanity" and "scum of the earth" which Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) described. Your money will have blood on it. When they swear you in, you are being sworn in as the devil's whore!

I always have the feelers out there with men here at the camp. They listen to guard conversations for me so that I can report the madness here on the blog. One of these covert operatives overheard Sgt. Messy-Her and CO Scumafia talking about the blog. I guess Sgt. Messy-Her was a bit upset that I referred to him as a "stalker" in one of the postings. He should not take it personal: it's just business. The funny thing is that I cannot take credit for that designation. One of his brothers in blue, a guard who loves to talk to cons, called him that and I thought it was funny (and appropriate). This con loving guard also told us about his domestic woes. These guys hate each other and are worse than the cons in so many regards. So many of these guards are already getting what they deserve, you can see it on their faces, and unless they change their ways life is going to continue to rob them of its real benefits. Just know that when you are talking here at ShirleyWorld, cons are listening and your conversations will become part of the ongoing discussion betweenthebars!

I'm still waiting to get some investigation results from an incident that happened here at the prison. I will report about it fully when I hear back from the superintendent's investigator as I had promised him I would hold off on the "free speech" concerning the act of cowardice until he gave me his results. I know they will rule it "unfounded" but that is not important as I have my own way of dealing with these matters. The point is that I gave my word and plan on keeping it: but I won't wait too long before I will contact the investigator and tell him that enough is enough. I have a U.S. District Court judge interested in the situation and I am rallying outside support for the efforts. I will keep you posted.

The Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Community Parish Council met with the superintendent here for an hour and fifty minutes last week. All in all it was a good meeting and the superintendent (The Boot) made some good points. We are hopeful that the Faith Community here can continue to good things with her support. One piece of interesting news that came out of the meeting was that The Boot is an avid reader of this blog. I was certain she read it but was impressed by just how much she retained from the Madness Journals. My hopes are that she understands that we need a voice to speak out about the foolishness here. I just want what I have coming: a meaningful opportunity to change. I also want to be able to afford my friends the same meaningful opportunity. Fake understaffing and the Lt. Urines get in the way!

More To Come...

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