November
26, 2013
In:
SF Bay View
We
prisoners are being told that as long as we are mentally healthy or not
succumbing to CDCr’s debriefing policy, we will not be eligible for release
from solitary confinement. Despite all the hype promising change, CDCr is still
claiming that our placement inside solitary confinement is justified, despite
the clear injustice of holding us here indefinitely, to no end, for nothing.
Because
many of us have maintained our mental stability under such a barbaric system,
we do not meet the criteria for release, but as soon as we begin to exemplify
any signs of mental illness, we immediately qualify for release. Does this not
suggest that our placement inside solitary confinement is for the sole purpose
of driving us to become mentally ill patients?
CDCr
simply waits for us to begin to suffer from the effects of mental illness like
so many before us. They’re looking for us to put fecal matter all over our
bodies, talk to ourselves, beat on the cell door, holler at the top of our
lungs until we fall asleep from exhaustion, throw urine and fecal matter on
staff and prisoners, commit suicide or attempt suicide, become anti-social
etc., only to be taken out of our cell by force and placed in four corner
restraints and heavily sedated and neutralized into a zombie state.
This has
been the pattern for all of those we have seen driven into mental illness, due
directly to their placement in solitary confinement. Why does CDCr even wait
for any of us to succumb to mental illness when we are, for the most part,
normal – unless being normal is not OK.
Many of
us have kept our mental stability or capacity to some degree throughout all the
years we’ve been in solitary confinement. Wouldn’t it be only right for the
state – for CDCr – to prevent prisoners from eventually succumbing to such a
fate, because we all know the longer you’re here, the greater your mental and
physical deterioration.
Hasn’t
CDCr created enough mentally ill prisoners through the use of solitary
confinement? Hasn’t CDCr caused enough suicides through the use of solitary
confinement? Hasn’t CDCr emasculated enough prisoners through its de-briefing
policy? Why can’t we – normal, functioning human beings – remain as such?
END LONG
TERM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT NOW!
