Jan. 25, 2014

Step Down Journals

by Pablo Piña (author's profile)

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Pablo Piña D-28079
P.O. Box 7500 D-2 122# SHU
Crescent City, CA 95531

January 2, 2014

Re: Step Down Journals (Post)

This afternoon the unit counselor Ms. Russell called my nephew out to the pod door and gave him a journal and other paperwork that he has to fill out. It's kind of like school work. And each work he has to write his answer to a series of questions in the -onal. At the end of the week on Friday he checks his work and fills out a questionnaire that evaluates his work. And in his won work what we learned from it, how it can help him, and what he expects to do with this new knowledge.

It's not very difficult for someone who has a basic understanding and educational background.

I've been doing similar courses but with more questions work. My neighbor can fly through them. The course is 26 weeks, and covers a variety of topics these people want the SHU inmates to study. It's mandatory too. My neighbor was placed in step when he went to the DRB last month.

The problem is this: there are many SHU inmates that will have a hard time with this stuff because they can't read and write too good.

I plan to bring this up when I go to that hearing (DRB) because what they are doing is setting these guys up to fail. And if they don't do the work, they will be flunked each time. And they will never get out of the SHU. I am concerned for some of my friends especially.

It's a good thing that I saw what the journals look like, so I can't explain it to others.

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