Orientation here at Lancaster is physically and mentally exhausting. We wake up at 5 a.m. every morning. We get up and make our beds. There can’t be any wrinkles in the sheets or blankets. There must be an eight-inch fold at the head of the bed and at all corners of the blankets you have to have a perfect 45-degree angle.After we make our beds, we shave and brush our teeth. Then we line up and go to breakfast. On our way to breakfast (or any other meal), we have to march in step and sound off. It’s a pain! That’s why our shoes only last a week through this two-week orientation.
After breakfast, we come back and sit quietly on the floor until the first count time. When count time comes, we all have to get up and run to the wall and quickly line up in four rows facing the wall. During this count, shift change also occurs. After count time, we go outside and PT (physical training) for about 45 minutes. It’s not so bad right now since it’s starting to get cold outside.
After PT, we go back inside and sit on the floor all morning without talking until lunch. When lunch time comes, we march just like we did at breakfast. When we come back from lunch, we go right back to sitting on the floor.
For the rest of the day, up until lights out at 9:30 p.m., all we really do is sit on the floor. The only thing that even happens in the day is about 7:30 p.m. or 8 p.m., the CO will give you a clean set of blues (uniforms) and pass out mail. Also right before lights out, we get to take showers. So for the first two weeks, you can’t do anything and it’s so boring, but after being in the box [in Brevard] where I couldn’t do anything if I wanted to, this should be easy or at least easier.
Prisoners at GITMO are treated better than this.
ReplyDeleteIs just a shameful reflection on OUR State, when THIS has become tolerable.
What is served by doing this??
Let the young man learn a trade or skill, let him read - anything.
You BOZOS at FDOC got some kharma coming, if you've been a party to stuff like this, on our fellow citizens.
Some are ACTUALLY innocent, too. Was in the news today, ANOTHER Florida man, in for over 30 years - DNA fund him NOT to be guilty.
To ANY Honorable, Noble OR Respectable Officers, THAT ALONE should plant a seed of doubt and be reflected in how YOU treat these people, in YOUR CHARGE.
Even Al-Quaeda prisoners can read their Koran....
Unfortunately, many sociopathic people pick these professions (guards, wardens) to be able to inflict this kind of inhumane treatment on people with problems who end up incarcerated. In most cases, (except those of serious violence, not sure what you can do with them), rehabilitation needs to be the mode of treatment. Counseling, life skills, discipline-yes-contructive, respect, etc.. You don't accomplish that by this type of behavior. What the Florida DOC is accomplishing is even more angry, unskilled, unreformed young adults who many will likely end up back in the system. This is a disgrace.
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