Typical Shit

I got a response from the Regional Director on the appeal I filed concerning the excessive sanction I got for telling Unit Team staff that they were “pieces of shit” (for screwing me over to my face and then lying to make it look like I was screwing myself over [see: "Pieces of Shit"]. My appeal very specifically requested, not that the sanction be reduced (from 120 days, or four months, of no personal phone calls), but only that the excessiveness of the sanction be somehow justified (since the infraction was my first in the five years I've been here, and the behavior --- i.e. using the word, “shit” --- was barely an “offense” at all).

The Director “denied” my appeal, and instead “referred” the hypothetical circumstance that I used in the appeal itself (where I tried to point out that with no justification for the sanction then it could easily be retaliation) to the “appropriate office for review and appropriate action” as “allegations of staff misconduct”.

In other words, they turned my appeal into an “allegation” against staff, which it was not. I know from many years of experience in the System that staff allegations almost invariably get turned against the prisoner making the allegation unless the prisoner has solid proof (which all staff learn quickly how not to provide and/or conceal). So, I “implied” possible staff misconduct (to support my argument for a justification of the sanction), but I deliberately made no actual accusation.

And now Unit Team staff are already giving me an even colder shoulder than usual, no doubt because they think I “reported” them for “misconduct”, even though I didn't (at least, not officially --- because it's only the “official” reports that matter to them).

And because the Regional Director made my accusation “official” (even though it wasn't made that way by me), it can be used to “weaken” any
official allegations I make in the future, even if I have strong proof (such is the case with my allegations of unconstitutional conduct by the Disciplinary Hearing Officer for finding me guilty of having “child porn” in my cell even though there was no “porn” at all in my cell, and the picture he called “child porn” was issued to me in an opened and inspected letter and did not violate any laws or B.O.P. policies --- he only found me “guilty” and sanctioned me severely, including a $75 fine, because he personally found the picture “offensive” --- see: "Child Porn" Found In My Cell... Again). And “they” know this, which I'm sure is the only reason they made the “accusation” official at all. It's just another example of how the system does injustice in order to sustain the illusion of a need for justice.

[J.D. Dec 10, 2015]