«Child Porn» Update: Children Have Breasts?

I got a response back from the B.O.P. Regional Director, Sara M. Revell, on the appeal I filed over being accused of (and harshly punished for) having “child porn” in my cell because a friend sent me a picture from Vogue magazine's website of a famous French child model wearing pants but no shirt in a perfume advertisement. The girl, Thylane Blondeau, is only ten years old, and as flat-chested as any boy her age. But the B.O.P.'s official response to my appeal claims, “The child's breasts do not have to be developed to be considered breasts.” (A direct quote.)

The director also now (out of the blue) claims that I did not receive the pictures in the mail, despite the fact that I have provided a clear copy of the letter I received with the pictures that speficially refers to and describes the pictures enclosed. The reason the director makes this claim (that I didn't get the pictures in the mail) is because according to B.O.P. policy I can't be found guilty if the “contraband” was issued to me through “regular institutional channels”.

So the director is not only redefining “breasts”, but she is also reinventing the facts of the matter in order to justify punishing me for doing nothing wrong except “offending staff's sensibilities” by being a “sex offender who is not authorized to possess sexually suggestive pictures of children”. (Another direct quote from an earlier DHO report concerning this same incident.) Nevermind that B.O.P. policy also does not allow “special restrictions for sex offenders” unless they are at an SOMP institution and have been informed of said restrictions (which I never have).

So now I am forced to appeal, again, to the Central Office in Washington, D.C. The last time I appealed this same incident to the D.C. office I never got a response. Since D.C. is the last chance for “remedy” in the B.O.P., if they deny my appeal I can take my complaint to a judge (which you can't do until after you have exhausted all other “remedies”). So not responding now allows them to respond later, after I file a lawsuit. And if they dismiss the incident then that lawsuit must also be dismissed. So not responding is a tactic they use to avoid trouble in court, and hence get away with violating their own policies if an inmate chooses not to file a new lawsuit (which takes a lot of time and money).

I don't know if they will respond this time or not (they're supposed to respond within two months, but technically they can take as long as they “need”). But if they don't then my attorney has already promised to help me file a lawsuit since this so-called “child porn” can have a devastating effect on any future hearings in my death penalty cases (which is the only reason I am spending so much time and effort on all these appeals).

This is a very typical example of how “The System” maintains the “appearance of justice” while acting arbitrarily and according to its own distorted “sensibilities” (where prepubescent children have breasts, and “sex offenders” can be punished just for being a “sex offender”). If you think, like many do, that I have no call to complain (or otherwise expose the truth) because of my “crimes against children”, then you are like “them”, who see only the small picture in front of them (the one they spend so much time painting to look like “justice”). In the big picture – and in reality – this kind of distortion of the truth leads more directly than those obsessed with the small picture can imagine to the continued manifestation of child murder and rape. No, I will never get out, and hence never rape or kill children again. But, I'm not the only one this kind of “justice” is being “painted” on.

I was in prison once before, remember, and I was treated the same then as I am being treated now. Except, last time I did get out, and I couldn't wait to “set things straight” when I did. And now when the guards here spit in my food, or threaten to kill me if I request recreation time, or punish me for having a picture of a girl with no shirt and calling it “child porn”, I just think to myself, sadly, how the cycle continues, and wonder how many more children must be raped and murdered before it ends.

[J.D. September 26, 2016]