I have recently been housed inside of an ad-seg unit where they specifically house prisoners who are classified as CCCMS. This basically means that everyone over here is on psychopathic medication and needs to be monitored but nobody is straight up nuts.
But here is the problem, we receive yard for approximately 5 hours once every 2 weeks. The rest of the time we are confined to the cells for 24 hours a day. California Code of Regulations 3343 (h) states that inmates assigned to special purpose housing units will be permitted yard no less than 1 hour per day, 5 days a week. They started group yards for crips and bloods only and now while they receive their regular amount of yard, everyone else is stuck in these cells for 2 week stretches.
Not only that but there is no laundry exchange for our underclothes and we are forced to wash the same laundry by hand because there is no program for our laundry to be washed either. We have filed 602 after 602 and they are not being responded to.
We don't receive everything that is supposed to go inside of our lunches, the showers aren't cleaned, we don't receive cleaning supplies at all and we are ignored by the cops that work over here. I've heard men banging and screaming until they were exhausted only to be ignored while cops sit inside their office, play dominoes, eat chips and collect over there.
This prison is violating our human rights simply so that it can provide more overtime for corrections officers. We are being "stored" within this place while they label it "ad-seg over flows." And what makes it even worse is the fact that this building is 95% African American prisoners and there are no Black cops working over here what so ever. These people are taking pleasure in the mental torture they are inflicting on the inmates that are being housed in this place. Because there are primarily Black prisoners here, they don't want to do anything for us.
These pigs all come across as though they take great pleasure on mentally torturing these men in here. It seems as if they themselves are bitter. One of them walks around yelling at these prisoners that are so mentally broken that they can only smile and put their heads down while he yells at them and humiliates them.
I could go on telling you about the sick things and the blatant neglect for pages. None of these cops have any kind of training dealing with people that are part of this mental health program, and I can only see a person becoming worse after having spent time in this place. But the main issue I believe is the one about yard. Our voices are just not being heard and our rights are straight out being violated.
- a California prisoner, August 2005
MIM responds: We are under no illusion that Black cops would treat the people better than white cops. Black pigs are traitors to their nation and should not be seen as allies.