June 06, 2015

Reply ID: iigk

Thank you for trying to help us. God knows Pulaski State Prison needs a lot of help with a lot of things. Some people go to far with their authority. We know we are in prison. We are here for correction and rehabilitation. That does not mean [for them to] treat us inhumane. This week we have received two Emails on our JPay account from upper staff. One was ["]I am not going to have inmates cursing staff out["]. First of all it's not politically right to curse no one out. But you have staff members who are Sgt., Lt., and Co's cursing inmates out. Inmates get called b('s) and MF's all the time. You have upper staff calling inmates cock roaches etc. The mental abuse is real at Pulaski State Prison behind the warden's back. Then we receive another Email that says we gonna receive disciplinary report. If they see any lines in our uniforms. Here we go again getting threatened over foolishness. The upper staff stated that is what laundry is for. The truth of the matter about laundry. They suppose to press our clothes but instead our clothes come back wrinkled. So we take our hair flat iron and iron clothes. So we can look decent. Now you do have some people who put double lines in their clothes. That doesn't have nothing to do with the whole compound of inmate. That is nothing I don't like it when a few individual do some ruthless act. Everybody suffers, I feel that is not right. I feel they should suffer for their own choices. People like that will always do things to harm others. That is the same way with Georgia Law.

Many innocent parties get caught up. Because somebody who do something wrong drag innocent people in their mess. All I ever heard all my life [was that] you choose to be around such and such so and so. But that person might have done what they done in the dark. The other person had no idea. I hate when people make judgments or pass it without knowing someone else and all the facts behind the story. That is how our society is. They feel because we supposedly made the choice to come to prison we deserve to be treated inhumane. You shouldn't [have] came to prison. But it's a difference [between] correction for the right motive, rehabilitation for the right motive and giving authority for the right motives. What people fail to realize coming to prison in our society is not just for the guilty but also for the innocent. For [a] decade their has been innocent people [who] come to prison. It's just become more obvious these days because people are talking more and new technology DNA is causing a lot of freedom. I am not guilty. I am telling my story every time I get a chance. I am part of the victims of overcriminalization. What the Justice Department, DOC and County (government) needs to focus on [is] correcting their mistakes [that] they have created in Georgia (overly jealous government and the excessive power of the state of Georgia). Their are some inmate [who] are guilty. But they are still humans that made the wrong choices. I talk to my peers all the time. The worse things that hurt inmates is being away from their family members.

If they don't have no family [then it's] the [lack of] freedom to make choices for them selves. All this not feeding us healthy food, treating us inhuman because they [think we] made the choice to come to prison. For some people that is true, but they are still humans. [This is] the message I am trying to send to our society today. We have to stop being so judgmental and prejudiced against inmates. Our society needs to realize today could be their day to come to prison whether your guilty or not. It doesn't matter what's your status quo. The judges, lawyer and DA do not care anymore to do their job according to the law. They let the false witnesses do it for them. They do not care as long as they get a conviction. Especially (Georgia). The reason Georgia is in this bind [as] far as a lot of things [is because of] Wayne Gardner who was in office at one time and later committed a crime. [He] said the inmates was living to good. Take out the good food the inmates was eating, and exercise equipment etc. Also take out a lot of our education programs. Still to this day, especially the women at Pulaski State Prison far as education. Our education is we have business vocational technology, cosmetology, graphic arts / printing.

We use to have culinary arts. But they shut it down recently. Everybody trying to get transferred to Alto State Prison so they can get their education because it's hard to get into a trade at Pulaski State Prison because of limited space and because they try to get the ones who have a 7PM in first. So if the parole board just suddenly give you a date. Your out of gas because your going out without anything to work in society and $35.00 check. In Georgia men prison has more vocational trades in their prison than woman. The only reason Alto State Prison which is a woman prison now. The only reason they have many vocational because it was men prison. The women only have two transitional centers. The men have 8 transitional centers compared to women. In Georgia women do more time than men. Alto Women Prison believe in getting their women out back into society. Pulaski State Prison believe in holding their life and long-term sentences into prison. Just recently alto State Prison had 10 lifers to make parole to Pulaski State Prison's zero. Pulaski State Prison has elderly women who had been denied 6 and 8 times. So everybody is questioning what is being put on their parole summaries when the parole board sends them.

We need the people in society to help us at Pulaski State Prison. Medical, oh my God, is awful. We have a state doctor who has committed malpractice in another state. But Pulaski State is holding on to this doctor who is not taking care of the inmates like he's supposed [to]. Their have been inmates who died under his watch. This man has been all in the news about his malpractice. They have not removed him from Pulaski State Prison. I try not [to] get sick to keep from going to medical. Our dining hall is getting worse. We don't even have enough cups to drink out of. They run out of cups. So half of the inmates get a drink. The other ones don't get anything to drink. Yes we get fruit but the inmates are so hungry. Everybody eats their fruits. People don't make alcohol too quick but it has been done in the past. That happens like once every three years or more. Our minds are not like that. We are shook down as we enter out of the dining hall. People look at people who are big. They say they are eating good. Some people are big by hereditary. We need help at Pulaski State Prison.

Here are some contacts.

Policies and Procedures Administrator (Jim Allen)
1-404-656-0893
2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr.
870 Twin Towers East
Atlantic, GA 30334

Human Resources Division
Cindy Schweigart
1-404-656-4603
2 Martin Luther King Drive
Twin Tower East
Atlanta, Georgia 30334

Department of Correction Headquarters
Managers of Food and Farm
300 Patrol Road [?]
Forsyth, GA 31029

Same department
Laura Bains
Dietitian for the DOC

Thank you for all your help,
Jennifer Johnson