California prisoners: no yard time, no medical care, plenty of guard brutality

Received your form letter on May 14, 2003, just got more indigent envelopes this month or I would have written sooner. In your form letter it says you'd like to donate books/publications to the library. We prisoners here in SHU do not have access to the regular library so I wrote a request to Captain R. Vella and asked him if and how you could donate them to the SHU here at CSP Corcoran. So far I've got no response and most likely will not get one either.

Enclosed you'll find the latest rules they have come up with here in the SHU at CSP Corcoran. I read some old issues of MIM Notes and a lot has changed here. There have been no fights staged but I have seen with my own eyes Sergeant Bear and Sergeant Anderson beat down prisoners. I have seen other C.O. officers and heard them brag about it later, beat and kick a prisoner. As for the yards cages, they are running every ay now except Wednesday and Thursday. In May I got cage yard one time, May 4th, and concrete yard seven times, May 9,11,15,18,22,27,31. They do run concrete yard on Thursdays. Depends on who is working at the time. We all prisoners in SHU MA yard are getting more yard time of the chance for more yard time at least. But things are not all roses yet. The 602 appeal system sucks. The medical treatment under Dr. Julian Kim MD and RN Edmond is close to non-existent. I know several people have and are continuing to file on Dr. Kim and/or RN Edmond. RN Edmond receives a pay check for coming by once a week when she feels like it with her 3 famous statements. "I don't know", "I can't do anything for you," "you need to see the doctor". She does nothing else but still gets paid for being a registered nurse. No matter your medical problem or what question you ask you'll get one of the 3 above statements!

Hopefully you'll get this letter and new set of rules but with me mentioning the employee's names of CDC it may be doubtful. Oh well, won't be the first time mail has disappeared here at CSP Corcoran. I've filed on it with no response. I'm now filing on the library/education CCR policy. SHU is supposed to have access to these programs. The magic words "supposed to".

I'm just waiting my turn to be beat down by CDC employees right now. I've been threatened by Sergeant Bear, falsely accused, and wrote a CDC 115 by Sergeant Anderson, threatened by the Senior Hearing Office. I've had my cell destroyed several times. They are looking for a signed receipt for a 602 I wrote on a female employee, a psych employee gave me a signed receipt for the 602 I turned in. The 602 has not been responded to as of yet. They are supposed to have 10 working days to respond. But...the first one was turned in 4-7-03. The second one (5-3-03, signed receipt).

--California prisoner, June 2003