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Addendum To "Overcrowding and Caught Slippn

Nikita — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:43:00 +0000

ADDENDUM TO THE BLOG, "Overcrowding".......................................

i made a slight mistake when i wrote this one. i wrote that allen two was initially designed to house 44 convicts. what i meant to write is that there are 44 cells in allen two originally designed to house 88 convicts. sorry about that. i don't usually make mistakes like that. additionally: i referred to counselor Bryant and acting unit manager Cameron as "puppets". this was not to be construed as a slur. it meant (and still means) that they are simply sent into our units to have town halls BY THE FCC OAK BIGSHOTS. they are simply doing what they're told. quite frankly, they both expressed a measured level of distaste when they explained that the forced overcrowding was going to take place , NO MATTER WHAT. in fact, Cameron said, "For the first time ever i agree w/ you guys. nor do i want an additional 18 convicts added to my already inflated caseload." this isn't an actual quote, but it reflects the words she DID say w/ a fair amount of accuracy. for the record, counselor Bryant and unit manager Cameron are both pretty laid back and do a difficult job daily. their caseloads ARE inflated and now it's going to go even higher. all because the fcc oak bigshots thinks it's better inre the budget they'll likely be allocated. but that's only my opinion, and i AM entitled to it....

ADDENDUM TO THE BLOG "Caught Slippin' ".................

first, it should be understood that when i wrote that blog, i was super pissed. the photos of my daughter, over 700 pages of the book i've spent the last 5 years handwriting, and a shitload of legal work and texts had been "vanished" while in the care of the poe. but that should not excuse my manners. i try to be polite at all times. thus this is an apology of sorts.

first, i have found out w/o a doubt that Brady is not responsible for the missing property. i have since discovered that even tho' she shirked her duty by NOT inventorying nor securing my property when i was taken to the hole, said property was inventoried at the hole. the paperwork i have clearly shows that the "missing" property was in the hole. why it's no longer there is a mystery. Lt Childress called me over to the Lt's office on the 17th of april, 2011, and he explained to me that he is yet looking for it. BIG props to Lt Childress. he'll look while all the other poe simply shrugged their shoulders unconcernedly and told me to file for "hush money" (tort claim), the warden inclusive. i admit that i made a mistake when i assumed brady had intentionally lost my shit. now i wonder if she'll EVER admit to her mistake about her silly eyeglasses......

Ever On....Katfish

(These were received last week and unfortunatly we perhaps put them up a day late and dollar short. See the notice below.)

We’ve recently been made aware of Katfish’s return to the Hole. Only this is like the super hole, aka SMU. Mysterious circumstances. Tales is going to do a little bit more investigating today and we will have a report for you Tuesday. Until that time, please keep him in your thoughts as he is most definitely suffering for utilizing his First Amendment Right. Tales welcomes any rebuttals from any and all who wish to make themselves heard. If you need a S.A.S.E. please let us know.

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Overcrowding

Katfish — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:06:00 +0000

We’re back yet again folks. We have a nice long stretch of material going out to you now, so we’ll be here, will you? Of course you will! We’d like to give great thanks to Senator Mike Flood for stopping in. Political influence seems to be what catches the Big Suits attention. It’s sad that the system they have in place no longer works to remedy bad situations, in that same regard it’s sad that the hiring process of Correctional Officers has drastically increased in rule breakers/punishment enforcers or perhaps we finally have a truth seeker willingly to tell you what's up. Prison IS the punishment folks, let’s remember that. The Judge did not bang his gavel and say, “No medical care that will actually help you, No amount of space to sleep or simply interact, No toilet time because there are just too many people and on and on…” Being away from family, loved ones, society, being taken away is the punishment, I can not enforce that to you enough. It is not the Correctional Officers, Lieutenants, or Wardens job to impart more punishment or create a living situation that is so volatile a violent fight will occur. It is their job to make sure the prison runs smoothly and that people do the paper work process that volatile situations are avoided. It’s not a daycare ladies and gentlemen, however, they should be allowed time to use the bathroom, to clean up, to have the little space their rule book allows. It’s the CO’s that delay or make the paper work disappear that is impart to messing up the entire world within a world. Take the time to read this one, I think even you dear reader, will be surprised to know what is happening inside.

Be Good and Be Well Dear Readers....Nikita~~

“Ah yes, the bad word, the concept word, the word that pretty much sums up all of Amerika’s Prison and Jailhouse problems. Well, here we are again, me w/my pencil in hand, blowing the whistle on the FEDS, D’Ya see, and this time it’s like thus: There are a couple of units here, in the Federal Correctional Complex in Oakdale, Louisiana (FCC OAK), where the FEDS are forcing 6 convicts to live in rooms designed to house only two. There are several of us who have written formal complaints (BP-8’s). Naturally we expect to be retaliated against; it’s the BOP way for handling legitimate objections from convicts: “Wanna cry? See how you like living in the Hole.” In any event, this unit, Allen 2, which also just happens to be the unit I’m currently housed in, was originally built to house 44 convicts. But now, when all is said and done, Allen 2 will house between 236 and 242 convicts (I say “between” because nobody seems to know if the Pigs are done moving extra bunk beds in or not)……………………

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Caught Slipping

Katfish — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:11:00 +0000

"There is a guard here, in FCC Oakdale. Her name is Brittany Brady. Most of my fellow convicts refer to her as "Skinny Minnie". She's in her mid-twenties, something like 5'4" more or less. Brady is a Karen Carpenter anorexic. She's a very weird looking female with a rather fat face. I call her "Freak Show". Brady worked in my Unit on Friday night, February 25th, 2011. For whatever reason she searched my locker and my locker alone. She confiscated my glue. I asked Brady later, outside, and asked for my glue back. After convincing her that I had not been "huffing" said glue, she agreed to return it to me, provided I could show her an example of the greeting cards I claimed I manufactured using the glue. (Who huffs Elmers flue in the first place, for Christ's sake? That suspicion on her part right there should've clued me in that her Happy Meal was lacking a few Mc Nuggets- I mean above and beyond being clearly anorexic is what I'm talking about.)

Ten minutes later I walked into the office where Brady was assigned. She was seated behind the desk which faces the doorway................................."

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SMU-The Black Hole of Prison

Katfish — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:19:00 +0000

It’s time to let our readers know what has been going on. Where is Katfish at? April 23, 2011 he was called to the Lieutenant’s Office. It was about 7:30pm and he was asleep. The events that transpired after this are certainly a mystery that we here at Tales have been trying to figure out, as well as his wife. After being informed by a anonymous source that her husband was in the hole, Mrs. Fish called up to FCC Oakdale. It’s difficult to describe her anguish at this, never knowing exactly what is happening with her husband, left in a tailspin until she can talk to him. This time it’s very different though. Frighteningly different. The switchboard operator confirmed he was taken to the Hole, that he was safe and unharmed to Mrs. Fish. Approximately a half an hour later Mr. Katfish called his Mrs. He described what I’ve explained above, and then began to describe where he was and the journey there. He was photographed, his hands, his head. He told the Mrs that he was taken to SMU, not SHU. The difference is explained in the following blog. Once showered in, Correctional Officer Brady was there. You all remember her right? Pink Glasses Lady is how we refer to her here in the office. She is the one that wrote a shot for the mistake of him picking up and wearing her glasses. We’d still like to know what her prescription is for those glasses. After realizing the mistake, he took them off, and apologized. Yes folks, apologized. Did not matter at this point, she was out for blood and she aims to get it we believe.

Alright, to the here and now. Correctional Officer Brady was in charge of the SHU/SMU we believe.No official will confirm or deny that. So was Katfish brought over because of her? The cell he was in at the time of that phone call was exactly as described in the below blog. Fast forward a half an hour after that phone call. Mrs. Fish called her sister, who promptly called the switchboard to find out what was going on for herself. The switchboard told her that her information was incorrect, he was fine and on the yard. Where was she getting her information. Why Mrs. Fish of course! Now if that doesn’t make ya go huh?, keep on reading. The two ladies talked about what to do next. It was decided that the Big Suits needed to be notified. A half an hour after THAT phone call, an “Unknown Caller” came through to Mrs. Fish, which is how phone calls from an institution come through on a caller id. Of course she answered. Much to her surprise it was an unrecognizable Southern female voice. “Leave it alone or things COULD happen.”CLICK! Panic. Fear. Her husband is in a box completely controlled,(temp, light, sense of time, everything) and at the mercy of the one person who is furious with him? That leaves the mind wide open. His poor wife was a wreck the rest of the night. After that she got angry and started making phone calls. Calls to anyone and everyone who would listen to her. She has not yet talked with her husband again, but if the rules are followed, he should have another call on Sunday. Since that Sunday Mrs. Fish has been assured by the unit counselor that he is fine and nothing bad will happen to him that he is in SHU, not SMU. Who are we to believe? This unit counselor has always shot straight, and followed the rules and yes, I believe it says in the computer system there he is in SHU, but he was in SMU or is still there and an error has been made in the computer. It’s 3 letters. Easy to confuse. And at this point the counselor had not physically seen him in either SHU or SMU. He had not made his rounds. So we want to know, where is Katfish? Who made that phone call? And for the love of God, why is he not in the district region he is supposed to be in. Colorado is home folks. So that would put him in the Northeastern Region. He’s way down South, and I think the ‘gaters are hungry. Let’s hope they don’t care for Katfish huh?

Stay tuned, and read on. Leave your thoughts, all are appreciated and acknowledged. Also we'd like to thank all of our NEW readers coming in from Twitter. That is an amazing way to read people, ~Tales From The Cells~

Pronounced, “The S-MOO”, an acronym for “Special Management Unit.” The S.M.U. The SMU is basically one step before the ADX (aka “The Supermax”) located in Florence, Colorado. Nearly everyone in Amerika has heard of ADX, mostly because it’s where the BOP keeps/kept convicts such as Kacyzinski(Unabomber), Nichols (OKC Bombing), the 1993 Twin Towers Bomber, Silverstein (going on 30 years in segregation), and the late John Gotti. Yet hardly anyone has even heard of Oakdale, Louisiana’s SMU. Essentially: SMU is reserved for the worst of the worst.

(this is a long blog, but considering the current circumstances, we believe it should be posted in full. please take the time to read it. and keep Katfish and his family in your thoughts!)

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First Impressions Of FCC Oakdale

Katfish — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:54:00 +0000

This is the first blog in our Oakdale Series brought to you from our Katfish!! Click the link and read, you are still with us, but we wanted to give this format a try! Tell us your thoughts!

"It was 3am in Oklahoma City when my cell door was opened, my name was called, and I was told I'd be leaving. I was given 30 minutes to get my shit together...."

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Sensitive BP-11

Katfish — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:21:00 +0000

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In Conclusion Of Yazoo City

Katfish — Sat, 29 May 2010 08:13:00 +0000

There are a lot of folks I need to thank. Now's as good a time as any. First and foremost, I want to express my deepest gratitude to the staff at T.F.T.C., and especially to Nikita, for furnishing me with the 9th edition of "Constitutional Rights of Prisoners." I'm amazed that the courts actually had to convene and re-convene over the last 50 years in order to come down on prison officials who continue to try and get away with doing some of the most outrageous shit to convicts. I love this book. Every day I learn a little bit more from it.

I'd like to thank the following correctional officers (C.O’s) for simply doing their jobs without power tripping and without stereotypical prejudice. In no particular order "thank yous” are dispensed to:

C.O.’s Tyler and Spearman for feeding me and for not being stingy with the coffee.
Thanks to C.O. Coleman who passes out razors. Thanks for not causing me any grief and busting those razors open so I could use the blade to sharpen the golf pencils I had to write letters, blogs and legal briefs with. Never an easy feat to begin with, yet even more difficult with golf pencils.

Thanks to C.O.’s Moore, Eschew and Ivory who also fed me and gave me what little mail the fuckers in the mail room didn't throw in the trash. Additional thanks to C.O. Jones who covered for everybody on vacation. A damn good youngster, that Kat.

A general thank you to all the SHU Poe who gave me flood blankets that I pressed against the walls to help stem the continuous seepage. I also appreciate all the good natured hard times we exchanged. Rock on.

Thanks to R.N. Ratliff. He was the only one at Medical who ever gave a damn. Ratliff also made sure that I got a second round of antibiotics when yet another bout of staph began in my opposite armpit (where does this shit keep coming from?) Because of Ratliff there were zero complications this time. Outta sight.

Thanks to Skipper Scott who came to my cell door here in the bucket. Looked over my "rejection notice" for Administrative Remedy, then explained to me how "misleading" it was while also letting me see in her eyes of resignation, that she too saw it as a deliberate "time expired" trick. The entire 5 minute conversation was enlightening as hell.

Thanks to Captain Dawson for always shooting straight with all of us Convicts. I thanked her personally for this; she responded by saying, "I always shoot straight with you men. It's the only sure way to win your respect." True that.

I especially want to thank all the Yazoo City guards who, over the course of the last 6 months (both in and out of SHU) filled me in on C.O. Craig’s extensive history of erratic behavior. As promised, all of your identities will forever remain confidential.

Here's a shout out to C.O. Bender: I hardly knew yuh. Lucky for you because what little that had been brought to my attention (thus brought to public's attention as well as legal teams) revealed a blatant 14 Amendment Rights Violations perpetrated by thee. Somebody, not me, will examine your motivations and prejudices. Count on it.

Look, this is the second Federal Prison I've been in where I discovered Black Guards ( only a couple, mind you) power tripping on white convicts. The White Convicts say it's because I'm in the south, baby..... that I better get used to it. Because it's the Black Poe getting even with Whitey for that whole slavery thing they've been taking out on White Convicts for years.

Not on me they won’t. Extra fuck that noise. Let me make something perfectly clear to one and all. I have never known a slave, nor have I ever known anyone who had a slave. Just because I'm whiter than a blizzard does not make me responsible for 150 year old slavery issues. No more than having German blood in my veins makes me responsible for the goddamned Holocaust! Am I coming through loud and clear here?

Here is a reality check for Bender and Craig: Tens of thousands of Yankees died while enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation. My ancestors were killed while fighting to set yours free. My home is the Rocky Mountains. I am a Yankee. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Be it known that I do not go looking for the kind of trouble I'm in now because of people who should have never been guards to begin with. I'm not on some fucking crusade here. However, I promise you that when this kind of crap is aimed at me, or if it's brought to my attention that it's happening to a fellow convict; I will confront it head on. I'm stupid like that. Believe me, there's enough goddamned racial hatred between Convicts as is. I don't want to have to keep looking over my shoulder because I need to worry about certain Guards freaking out on me too. Who can blame me? Nor do I want BOP big shots messing with me because I write out real life prison issues. Get off and stay off of my Amendment Rights. The Constitution backs me up on this 100%. All of our rights are our rights alike.

I've got to ask...we've ALL got to ask: WHY is the DOJ/BOP so uptight about the public knowing- I mean REALLY knowing- what goes on inside the Federal Prison System? Think about that.

Does anybody know who Jack Kerovac is? Check this quote out.

"The American police are involved in psychological warfare against those Americans who don't frighten them with imposing papers and threats. There's no defense. Poor people have to expect to have their lives interfered with ad infintium by these neurotic busy bodies. It's a Victorian police force; it peers out of musty windows and wants to inquire about everything, and can make crimes if the crimes don't exist to their satisfaction."

Jack Kerovac-1949
”On the Road"

True in 1949. True in 2010. Peace, respect, and gratitude to those in FCC Yaz that have it coming. A popped up middle finger to those who don't.
I'm so outta here.......

Katfish

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