I really do appreciate your concerns since they do relate with mine on a daily basis. Myself and about 20 others suffer from mental abuse and discrimination by staff every day. They treat us worse than violent offenders and sex offenders because we don't want to be a part of the program they call HOPE, a residential intensive drug treatment program. I'm in prison for "failure to respond to a police officer's demand to stop" and I wasn't even on drugs when I committed my crime. They single us out and if we don't fit in with their scheme of things they lock us down. I'm locked down right now with no privileges and my out of cell time is three hours/week. I've never even had a write-up and I'm not a management problem now and never have been.
-- a Utah prisoner, 12 September, 2005