POSSIBLY ERRANT GUARDS
Col. Croy (sp?) for reports of unnecessary macing.
Superintendent Linda WIlliams,
who allegedly covers for Col. Croy

SHADY BENEFITS OF WORKING FOR THE DOC

Re: USE YOUR HANDS!

Hey Kaylee--

As before when something strikes me I will respond to you with my thoughts and feelings.

It has been a couple of years now since I personally experienced this, but the sad thing is that the young man who wrote you was probably telling 100% truth. The officers that I was exposed to gave one roll of toilet paper to a man a week. If you were sick in any form requiring additional toilet paper you were out of luck. There were no paper towels to blow your nose on so toilet paper is the only option. Believe it or not toilet paper became a commodity.

Additionally, should someone be able to have some left over at the end of the week and have an "extra" partial roll -- the officers would take it away and throw it in the trash despite the fact that there is a "shortage" of toilet paper. As for the soap....I have been places where they cut a small bar in half and expected that to last a week.

Where is all the money from inmate welfare going? No sporting equipment is being bought to speak of and no library books or law books (they keep downgrading the law libraries) even the chaplain does not get any of the money. Clothes for men going home is usually donated by a church group or perhaps confiscated as in original reception centers.

True story I personally was involved with. I was at DeSoto and a couple of men came to me and told me that the clothes for release was being bought from their hundred dollars release money and they would end up with about thirty dollars to go home with. I went to the Chaplain and made arrangements for a local church to donate the clothes to the men who had no family to send in the release clothes.

The Lt. whose sister was the release classification officer came to me and told me that I "had pissed off his sister" and she "wanted me dead." He said that he had to transfer me out of there as soon as he could. I ended up at River Junction. Come to find out that the release classification officer was going to a thrift shop and buying the clothes and creating a receipt for the clothes and taking the rest of the money difference from the actual cost of the clothes and her created price.

DeSoto Correctional, at that time was a "release facility" and there were as many as eight to ten men a day leaving to go home. If she was getting twenty dollars per man (conservative estimate), her take was $160 to $200 per day!!! Having that tax-free money taken from her corrupt hands certainly was not a happy moment for her.

Oh yes, this also was the time that a classification officer freaked out while smoking crack cocaine in his office striped off all his clothes and went so berserk that he had to be restrained with a straight jacket to be taken to a local hospital. After the 28 day detox he returned to his job as if nothing ever happened.

There are many more true stories from the inner world of the DOC. As I remember them I will write you and tell you what I witnessed. The cost of the toilet paper cannot be too much as it is probably the lowest grade that you could buy. But then Billy bob's second cousin or wife's brother maybe the vendor selling the toilet paper to the DOC and with kickbacks and payoffs involved maybe the cheapest quality paper is now the most expensive. As I have said all along Prison is big business!

Ex-prisoner, Gary Brooks Waid