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

2/7/14
Friday AM

RE: Another Day in the SHU And Step Down Program Policies

Greetings.

Today is the 7th of February, and it's around 8:30 AM. I received a medical ducat last night so I'm waiting for them to come and get me for the doctor's line. It's been raining the last few days. With all the drought issues that have been going on in California, them cutting off our hot water has been kind of regular around here. Maybe now with the latest rain, they'll back off of us.

I went to see the doctor earlier, and the doctor told me that they are going to change my medication again. I take thyroid medication, which they are constantly changing to a higher and lower dosage. Between generic and name brand medication, I'm not a dictor so I don't know what to think about all of this. I just go along with the program, hoping that they are doing the right thing.

All day, we had to go without water. They kept telling us the pipes had broke when a worker using a backhoe to dig up a pipe broke it in half.This place is steadily having problems with the water and the electricity, and it's supposed to be state of the art. Yeah right!

I'm enclosing the next part of the step down program procedures. There are a lot of pages, but this is what they are going to use to control gang activity. Is this going to work? What would you think if you were sitting in a SHU cell?

I believe that there is no real way to control it nor to discourage inmates from gang activity. It usually takes its course and most will outgrow it. Others will end up in prison with long sentences, and others will end up dying out on the streets or in prison. Any SHU or step down program can only slow it down a little, kind of placing us in "still game": still in the game, only out of commission, which many of us have been all these years.

So what can prison staff do? For over 40 years, they've isolated us. Now they're forced to make modifications because of all the publicity.

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In response to Blue Lotus (9m3d)

Greetings. I like your name, and I'm wondering if you chose it because it just has a nice ring to it. Or is it because of what the lotus flower represents. Have you ever read The Golden Lotus?

Okay, to your post: No, I don't think any prisoner has ever heard all of what's in the flu vaccine. I think I read about the egg and some other stuff, but, like most medical and scientific terms, prisoners don't know what they mean. I doubt any of us would agree to take the shot if we knew what I know now. This is very serious. This could be very dangerous. Now or in the near future.

As it is every time they give the shot, a lot of prisoners come down with some flu symptoms and others. I won't be taking the flu shot anymore, and I'm going to tell everyone what I have learned. This could be a way to cause extermination and/or render prisoners and others from having kids. It's not new either. The prison system has done this to women prisoners in California several times, but under some medical term. But it was designed to cause infertility.

Thank you for the information. If you want to learn about the lotus flower, read that book. Though I can't remember who wrote it.

Much respect