IN THE LIFE OF A CONNECTICUT PRISONER #2

Today I wonder, "What to do to keep my sanity?" I currently have no legal work to tend to. Access to the so-called library is sporadic at best. I've been unemployed since I was involuntarily transferred to this facility over a year ago. It's a part of their retaliation for filing a complaint with the Commission On Human Rights And Opportunities. What they don't get is that I won't give up.

One may wonder what is so hard about being in prison? Understand that in this state, unlike most others, rank and file staff actually WANT inmates locked up 24/7. So they spend most of their time making it happen. As a result, most prisoners in this state are locked in their cells 21-22 hour/day. So, both unit officers sit in their $800 ergonomically designed chairs kicking the willy-bobo with each other day after day, year after year scheming on how to get more money out of the state. Unless one can eventually get a job or luck up into a program he is stuck in a cell nearly all day. These people literally object to anything that causes them to have to get up off their hind-quarters to leave the O/M and its many vending machines of heart-attack snacks.

I just finished a book, "THE PLOT TO SEIZE THE WHITE HOUSE - The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR" by Jules Archer. I really liked it. I wish I had been taught about the heroic deeds of Major General Smedley D. Butler while in school.

Normally I'm reading up on various cases decided by the state and circuit courts and the U.S. Supreme court but I can hardly get to the library. Any suggestions on what other constructive activities I can do?

Rich.

P.S. J. Etheridge, please get in touch with me. I'm written several times but haven't heard from you since Hurricane Sandy hit. I'm still very worried about you. I'm no longer in Newtown:

RICHARD STEVENSON #156074
CHESHIRE C.I.
900 HIGHLAND AVENUE
CHESHIRE, CT 06410