Posts by sophieprisonerexpress
Robert Scherrer, September 2nd, 2013
Soccer yesterday. OK, here goes my day in a nutshell. 4:30 I wake-up, wash-up, brush teeth, put on water for coffee. Roll up my mattress, sit & drink my coffee, use toilet, pick up everything off the floor & sweep & mop the cell. If it’s the weekend I do this after breakfast and wipe…
Read MoreLawrence C. Smith, June 26th, 2013
… Upon the reflection of worldly events one has come to realize the shortcomings of labels and dogmatic belief systems. Flexibility, understanding and respect for all beings are the keys to harmony within society. Everyone matters as the smallest ripple within this world and one has the potential to affect millions. In thinking this way…
Read MoreGabriel Roberson, June 14th, 2013
Oh, new program, they’re walking through the pods checking us every 30 minutes. So far it’s really slowed the shower and yard program down. I’m really not looking forward to being woken up every half-hour when they unchain the pod doors, stomp up and down the stairs and shine a flashlight in my face. And…
Read MoreWilliam Miles, Summer 2013
5-3-13 I am now in textile, working as assistant weaver, 8 hour days busy-busy-busy, I work on towels, it is HUGE the weaver itself is 9’ wide 6’ deep and 7’ tall one 6 foot roll of cotton thread overhead, another at hip height, 3,310 threads meet but don’t touch, it is a big mass…
Read MoreMartin Gonzalez, July 10th, 2013
Time: 5:34 am It’s the third day of the hunger strike and last night I couldn’t sleep. This is the hump day once I get past today I should have more energy and not feel so sluggish. Every morning I do 150 push-ups to keep my muscles from getting lazy and get my heart rate…
Read MoreGabriel Roberson, May 2013
5/27/13 Latest I’ve heard is during the strike that is supposedly going to take place we’re going to be refused any type of medical care until we collapse then we’ll be force fed. So that’s something to look forward to. They’ve stepped up the pod raids too, they’ve hit two pods in the block in…
Read MoreMartin Gonzalez, July 9th, 2013
Time: 6:10am It’s day two of our hunger strike and once again we are being “cell fed” (for those of us accepting meals). Most of the building is still refusing their meals and I just seen on the news that 30,000 inmates are participating in this hunger strike. That’s more than I expected and probably…
Read MoreMartin Gonzalez, July 8th, 2013
Today is day one of the hunger strike and it is also my fifth day in Centinela State Prison. I’ve just been transferred from Calipatria’s level-4 prison to Centinela’s level- 3 prison, after spending almost five long years housed in Calipatria’s Administrative Segregation Unit (ASU), also known as “the hole.” I’ve been in prison for…
Read MoreGabriel Roberson, May 17th, 2013
I realized today I haven’t been out of this cell for more than a few hours in almost seven years. Well, I went to Corcoran for ten days during the first hunger strike and was locked in two different cells down there. If I take my full yard and come out to clean the tier…
Read MoreJames W. Lanegan, November 18th, 2012
Ok, then. Here I go. Without heed to any of the advance self-recrimination I customarily employ to freeze any further forward momentum, I SHALL embark upon this nebulous journey. Er… journal, that is. (I wonder if, as similar as those two words are, they’re related in any way?) “Now knock it off, Lanegan. There you…
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