Ronald W. Clark
May 10, 2017

I'm Back
Let's Address Sanitation

Today is Tuesday, May 10, 2017, 5:18 AM. Anyone who followed my blog has noticed my ten month absence. SO let me fill you in.

Ten months ago, a wonderful woman came into my life and, with her presence came a calm and soothing existence. Was the happiest ten months of my life. But as everything has a beginning, everything must come to an end. Peace and tranquility never has had a place in my life. I knew it was too good to be true. And at the end of April, it came to a screeching halt. Which brought me back to the blogmosphere.

For the past ten months, I've ignored a lot of stuff. I've let things slide that I normally wouldn't. I lost myself in the loving arms of a woman. The weekly embrace, passionate kiss, intelligent conversations, the laughing and joking, all made it easy to lay back and ignore the mold on the food trays, the grease, slime, and unsanitary conditions of these food trays for which we have to eat off of! Yes—I've ignored the mold and mildew in the showers, mold and mildew that's never cleaned up! No, they paint over it! So we have layers and layers of paint that are over layers and layers of mold! We have a pipe alley that has mold, mildew, loose wiring, and raw sewage that's been there for years.

We have serious health and safety issues that would condemn any public building in America. But hell, this isn't America; this is the Florida Department of Corruption where illegal and unethical activities run rapid!

But wait, we got a new secretary: Julie Jones. New logo and new staff uniforms. Yes, but we've got the same mindset, same piss poor excuses, and the same practices that have always been here. Julie Jones hasn't done anything other than put up a false facade of a different mindset of a new and improved Florida Department of Corruption. In my upcoming blog post, I'll further substitute that with her appointments to important positions and failure to weed out unethical employees who are rooted into this corrupt system.

Right now, my goal is to bring in the Florida Health Department and CDC (Center for Disease Control). We had an ACA (American Correctional Association) inspection/audit. That was a friggin' joke! The inspectors didn't even come up here on the floors, so I know they didn't go in the pipe alleys where the loose wiring and raw sewage is just blatantly evident!

No, we need a real inspector to come in here and do a mold test, scrapping away layers of paint and exposing the mold that is growing under there. We need the pipe alleys inspected, for our ventilation in these cells run into this area. When you look into the vent, you can see decades of dust, dirt, and build up back there on the vents, the pipes, and the wiring. This is not just unsanitary, this is insanely unsafe! Unsafe for the inmates housed in here! Unsafe for the staff who have to work here!

We have a rat living in the pipe alley here on G-Wing. Probably more than one. Staff said he bit into a wire and got electrocuted. All I know is we've got roaches, spiders, insects of all types, rats, and even had snakes come in here on the first floor.

We're eating off food trays that need to be replaced. In the food slots of these trays, there are deep gouges where inmates have carved out their names or messages. These trays can no longer be properly cleaned and sanitized! These trays need to be removed and replaced, for these trays that have scratches and gouges are housing the bacteria that is causing food poisoning. Last month, we had an inmate on the second floor get severe food poisoning. So many are constantly getting mild forms of it, resulting in diarrhea. 'Cause these food trays with gouges cannot be properly sanitized! They cannot remove the germs, the microorganisms that are buried deep in the crevices of those gouges. We don't even get properly sanitized trays without these defects. Our food trays are brought back here with grease and slime all over them! I've showed this to staff time and time again. I've run a Q-Tip over the tray lids showing them the back mold that's right next to the food that we're forced to eat.

It's time to bring in the Florida Department of Health and CDC to inspect and condemn this building. Until it can be properly cleaned, for the mold test alone, will be reason enough to temporarily condemn this building. Union Correctional Institutions D-Dorm was condemned on them some grounds. And that same violation is just one of many that is taking place here at Florida State Prison. Please help bring attention to these unsanitary, life-threatening conditions.

Ronald W. Clark Jr. 812974
Florida State Prison
P.O. Box 800
Raiford, FL 32083