Nate's Nate's 16 Nov. 2014

Here's the latest photo, taken mid October. Figured I'd grow a short goatee for it, just for some variety. Usually I just have a thin 'stache + soulpatch.

Been in the SHU for 30+ days, so may've lost my tan. But it's FL so I'll be able to get it back, even in November :)

Should be getting out of SHU soon, with no discipline. The S.I.S. investigator told me I'll be going to the North side of the prison, for a "fresh start", after some jokers on my unit informed them I was gonna stab someone. (Think I already explained this...)

While I've been here I knocked out some novels + am perusing Viktor Frankel's 'Man's Search for Meaning' which depressed me with memories of the harsh conditions in LUI's seg. units. To a less intense degree the prison system in the US (+ all over the world) chronically deprives its captives of their (typically little) human dignity, and, as in the concentration camps, the prisoners often abet their own degradation. The novel King Rat, by James Clavell (I think), is a good depiction of a prisoner (of war) preying on his fellow captives Such infuriates me + that's why I'm in SHU.

Prisoners prey on prisoners all over + the staff turn a blind eye to it, from the black prisoners (men+women) in the Maryland state prison who gang rape all incoming white prisoners who fail to viciously fight back every day. This despicable predation is rampant in the W. Virginia state system where the two notorious homosexual predators with tattoos on their shoulders saying "The Mad Rapist" and "The Predator (above depictions of "boys" (frailer men) being raped by them) prowl the yard, looking for the physically weaker to prey on. It happens in every state, to a greater or lesser degree, because staff let it happen, enjoy it.

Here the prisoners are mostly strung out on suboxone, an easily smuggled opioid (it comes in a thin strap that can fit under a postage stamp), which turns them into the walking dead. Staff know this, but can't snuff out the practically open drug trade, if they even want to.

Then there are a bunch of tore-up homosexuals, most of whom have Hep. C. +/or H.I.V Etc.

Combine that with the sadistic guards/staff, most of whom are Black +/or Hispanic + racist towards white prisoners + I'm feeling pretty lonely.

Nate A. Lindell
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