Jovan Williams

Jovan Williams 575056 WCI (bd1993, 24yo)Jovan Williams was incarcerated at age 19 and has been in prison in restrictive Status housing for more than  2 years, approximately January 2016 until now. He believes he was originally put in restrictive housing Status for disobeying orders and was given 90 days. He is still there. He has not been giving outside of cell recreation nor allowed to go outside for long periods. Due to DAI policies and procedures he was given 45, 90 and 105 days of loss of rec.

         He is diagnosed as MH-1 and is continually put around prisoners with MH-2-A and 2-B and says there are no psychological treatment  given to any of them. “ I never thought I will have all of these scars on my body and mental, but look at the result of what I have gone through being incarcerated in these settings . I don’t know if I will be able to function in the community without help. I have reached out more than several times for help to get back to reality but get nothing. This setting is full of boredom, hostile ways from people. This is dangerous-which leads me to self destructive ways, suicidal thoughts, self harm and suicidal attempts which only make my psychological state worse than it was at the beginning.

          His history of self harm is extensive. He asks to be properly diagnosed at WRC and to be sent to WRC for  programs /groups for his diagnosis. He says there is one word for his environment: “ Unbearable!”

Luis Ramirez describes a bad cycle

After years in solitary, Luis was put into general population without transition or treatment and was okay for awhile when he was harassed, got scared, blacked out and attacked someone and now faces new charges.  His behavior was part of his mental illness and his blacking out was well know by staff.

In the past he helped FFUP understand Segregation conditions. Luis Ramirez here outlines well what mentally ill prisoners go through in prison. FFUP tries to help them keep healthy with encouraging letters and it does not take much to give people a sense that there is a kinder world outside and something to work for. Please send a friendly note.


Luis Ramirez
GBCI; PO Box 19033
Green Bay, WI 54307

First I’m sorry for the errors, I’m Dislexic and can’t follow directions to well

I’m bipolar and learning disabled but they want me to learn there rules I’ve been in segregation for 9 years because I get a conduct report and I get mad because they gave me so much time I cuss them all out then I get more conduct reports then I get mad about these new conduct report’s that I catch more conduct reports.
This becomes a never ending cycle but now I’m being placed on A.C. I was on A.C. in Waupun corr, inst. I get transferred to CCI and I was told that they would let me go in in CCI but CCI keeps me on A.C. I did l8 months and I just got fedup and I went off so now the cycle of catching C.R. has started back up sometimes I get so mad I want to just kill myself just to get out of this segregation. I’m tired of always walking around in handcuff’s I just need one try one chance and I’ll prove that I can behave but they won’t give it to me.
This same thing 12 other mentally unstable inmates are going through . Can you please help me because I’m only a day away from killing myself I can’t take this anymore. Can you please help us.

Respectfully Luis Ramirez

Here is a penpal post he filled out in hopes someone will be his friend:
BIRTHDATE:6-12-75
AGE: 35

RACE: Latino GENDER: male
HEIGHT: 5'8" WEIGHT: 185
EYE COLOR: brown HAIR COLOR: black

CONVICTED OF: Armed Robbery RELEASE DATE: M.R.2028


Description:
I was born in Guatama, Puerto Rico. I’m into the law. I’ve thought about becoming a paralegal and hopefully my dream will come true. My hobbies are sports, reading, dancing, and biking. My favorite food is lasagna. My favorite Dessert is German chocolate cake. My favorite music is salsa in Spanish and metalica in English.

I’m looking to have all the better things in life and I’m going to work hard in order to get them. If you think you could be one of these better things in my life, please don’t hesitate to write me.

Ali Mursal

Ali Mursal #541673
WRC PO Box 220

Winnebago, WI 54985

My name is Ali and I'm from Africa, born and raised. I came to the states to see how it is. Now that I am in prison they are trying to send me back to Africa. I nor my family wants that. If you are looking for a good, strong, honest friend and if you want to know more about me, Please write.

James Terry

James Terry

James Terry #373986
WSPF PO Box 1000
Boscobel, WI 53805
DB 1964 ;age 54
Wants a friend

James Terry is well known to FFUP-- For many years he has been trying to find reliable representation to prove his innocence. Someday we may have a group like Wisconsin Innocence Project to do preliminary investigation on the many many cases such as this.
But for right now FFUP's interest is why he is on AC and we hope he can find a friendly pen-pal

If there is any who would like to look into these AC cases with reform in mind, contact FFUP at pgswan3@aol.com

https://ffupstuff.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/james-terry-story.pdf

Michael Pietila

Michael Scott Pietila

10 20 20-Just out of solitary- trying to  make it in general

Introducing Heathen ( AKA Michael Scott Pietila #277076)

A good friend who is also an advocate for my rights along with many others felt some would appreciate my thoughts, feelings and understanding as a blog. I’ll honestly say I had and have, no idea anyone valued myself to such an extent. I guess we’ll see as this blog progresses. I’ve never read a blog, never wrote a blog, as a matter of fact the technology revolution of the 200’s I happened to miss on my first bid. I did 101/2 years for an Armed Robbery and a couple burglaries. Yes, I am a “violent” criminal who lives by a code of conduct, morals and principals that are foreign to most society. On the flip side, Society is an alien environment to me and many like me.

I’m not against punishment for those of us who break the law. On the contrary, I believe some of us deserve the punishment meted out by the courts. But there are some exceptions to the punishments that I believe deserving of alterations or transformations. It is ridiculous to believe that just housing us and throwing outdated and ineffectual programs and schooling at us while the DOC employees continue with their general outlooks that we are wayward children or even animals that they need to subdue and break is going to rehabilitate us, I’ll also speak out against the medieval psychological and psychiatric services for us who do suffer from mental illnesses.

 I am diagnosed as bipolar I, PTSD, paranoid personality and major depressive disorder. At times I’m in such a manic state ( such as this mild mania that is allowing me to pen this introduction) that I cannot get enough done. I know I need to seize these opportunities because in between my ‘manic episodes” I suffer debilitating depressive states where I’m like a robot going through the motions of existence  and let me travel deeper to my lowest levels of depression and I may end up in the hospital getting stitched up from my latest artistry with a razor blade. ON occasion I get too excitable and something may trigger my paranoid delusions or full blown psychosis where I believe everyone in the world can hear my thought, can communicate with me in depth and detail with a look or body language or that I’m being housed in a prion where all the employees are cannibals who want to suit up on us, spray us, with the SC can to spice upthe meat, rape us to tenderize our meat and eventually kill us, then feed us to each other and eat us themselves.

 Yeah that’s the short version of the story. I also happen to be a muslim of the caucasion persuasion which I’m pretty sure isn’t trending in the current societal circles. I’m not a very good muslim, but I am one and I’m proud of it despite the current vilification of my brethren by the American media and aristocracy.

 I’m currently housed at Waupun Correctional Institution and with this drastic lack of corrections officers that they have her this seems to be the black hole of the WI department of Corrections. The lack of employees is compounded by the draconian way we are treated by many employees. Granted we as Inmates, prisoners and convicts ( very distinct differences) do not help ourselves with our macho posturing , selfish needs, or alien personalities but in the end WE ARE STILL HUMAN, just like all of you. What’s sad is I’m currently in segregation (restrictive housing unit) by choice and I’m not getting out anytime soon. They shut down the institution and cancel everything while feeding us in our cells when we already expected to live our lives”22-23 hours a day in a 3X3 cell with another inmate. I’m running out of steam for this blog. when inspiration strikes. I ‘ll be back.

                                                                               I’M A HUMAN TOO!!



LATEST    Submission:                                                   

Children

Michael Pietila 355054, WCI

10 29 2019

My childhood was not the best but it was also not the worst. Perhaps if my mother and father had more “appropriate”  childhoods, mine would have been more “American-dreamish”. But who’s really is? Who cannot complain about some traumatic childhood experience. My mother had took after hers, and beat me as a toddler. She told me this herself one time in her life ( may Allah have mercy on the dead of the muslims)  and only one time. The more usual psychological abuse , as it became after ”treatment” that I want through about me being a liar, manipulator , etc. was repeated so many times I’m still peeling scabs off thirty years later at 35years old. Her mother beat her, how bad I’ll never know, for becoming “the other woman in her husband’s life as a child. But I was saying these “onetime only” sayings of mama’s are cherished memories. Now I had become the new Beau in my Grandfather’s sick world.( the really F-cked up thing was that he was a Golden Guernsey Ice cream truck driver)  “ History repeats itself” as they say. Gladly my mother, the saint of a woman, stopped the bleeding as best she could according to what she had to work with in the 1980’and 1990’s .My two brothers never went through what me and ma did, never understand my mother’s and mine relationship. Not trying to qualify or compare and contrast- just putting this in context. She did not engage in sexual deviation, and neither have I. But it doesn’t stop me from feeling like “one of them” myself.  I takes a lot of time around children to help the worst part of doing time, for me anyways- which is feeling and sometimes believing I am “one of them” because of all this foolishness create about how “they were abused”. So it’s not fully their fault”. But it is not an addiction, it is not a psychological or emotional mental illness”. Once action is taken the child is stolen from the garden of Eden or Innocenceland”. It is the worst crime imaginable to steal a child’s innocence. My early 20’s when I was doing 10 12/2 years straight I was “sneated” for giving these pedophiles such a hard time.  As if I Would have took their money to pay me off. I wanted to hurt them like I hurt.

I’ve grown up a lot since then. No, the kinship”feeling if anything makes me feel worse towards them. I’ve just learned, to the best of my ability, no to judge.

I apologize for taking you down this dark road. I’m sure we’ll travel these dark paths again. This blog entry was intended to be more upbeat if not inspirational. I’ll just have to be more creative in my next blog entry. Thank you for reading.

Heathen

 

more writings. 

https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/michael-pietila-angels-walk-this-realm.pdf

https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/michael-pietila-destitute-in-the-wi-doc.pdf\

https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/michael-pietila-questions.pdf

https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/michael-pietila-roughest-time.pdf

 

Gerald Easterling

Gerald Easterling 564618;WCI ;PO Box 351;Waupun ,WI 53963

From Within and beyond this 8” by 14” square  foot steel deprivation cell that is designed for my mental and physical and social dehumanization, I bring to you this letter  of concern regarding the adverse effects of long term segregation sensory deprivation<After spending 3 years in intensive solitary confinement ,deprived of human contact, I had become super-sensitive to the 5 basic human senses. This deliberate and intentional stripping of the ell down to a isolation cell, then the stripping of the individual down to the basic necessities and even down to the personal effects- then locked within this cell 24 hours a day with barely the bare essentials and where even this wall-mounted stainless steel mirror is the segregation cell is removed from the walls so that even the sight of one’s own image is denied. And no matter how strong a person is , sensory deprivation is depravity at its worst. All 5 basic human sense-sight, sound, smell, touch,  and taste-are severely suppressed-when one is slowly but surely and very subtly stripped of all common sentiments of humanity. So once again, I am force d to adapt to a Fucker of situation. Under these adverse conditions of confinement one tends to crave a change of scenery and location, and atmosphere, and environment just so s/he can see new sight instead of the same old everyday mind-deadening routine and faceless faces..hear new and different sounds other than the  quiet and indescribable silence that seems to speak louder than noise, smell different scents besides the foul stale and  contemptible odor so common to everyday existence in this bottomless pit..one seeks to touch base with and feel and embrace another human in an intimate and sensitive and humane and compassionate and personal way as opposed to the impersonal and inhumane and insensitive and degrading manner..one develops a strong, intense desire to taste various foods besides the same old tasteless and non variety and everyday, recycled meals. One is served just enough good to have a bowel movement and just enough to say alive. Where even one’s sense of taste and appetite, and taste buds is denied and deprived, Torture chambers where absent various forms of social stimuli , the human mind can become so debased and so dehumanized , and sink so low tha if one isn’t so careful , there is a tendency to adjust and conform and accustom oneself to a standard of living that is lower than that which exists within the animal kingdom.
After spending over three years in the intensive solitary confinement, I was transferred back to general population .I have not received, encouraged nor welcomed any outside contact by way of visits and emotional and spiritual and financial support from family members, loved ones or friends in the past 6 years. The most pain is knowing, the feeling of helplessness. The dark corner doesn’t lend much comfort-often the walls are closing in. It’s still dark and cloudy in the midst of the hell the call “the kingdom, of darkness” but with a little love and support, you can supply the sunshine I need to get me through this stormy weather when all else fails. Bring your light to my solitude heart and mind and soul. What you have for me will make my darkness all-light, I understand you help people in prison, can you please help me maintain myself and existence with emotional and spiritual and financial support. Can you please provide encouragement and help me overcome the challenges faced during incarceration and reintegration. Being ungrateful is not a character of mines, nor do I require a lot, I just ask that you provide me enough ,enough of what you honestly have to offer genuinely from a place where your feeling and heart may reside.
Can you please order me some envelopes? Item #8039 at  www.JL Marcuswisconsin.com ( 414-438-4999)
It si my heartfelt appreciation. You have my thanks. Hope to hear from you really soon.
Respectfully submitted, Gerald Easterling #564618

Read in original:https://ffupstuff.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/gerald-easterling.pdf

Joshua Scolman

Joshua Scolman 

Joshua Scolman 422508; Po Box 351; Waupun, WI 53963
  Birth year 1983; release date 4 23 2053

Joshua Scolman was placed on AC after his year of solitary time was up- he  was part of the food strike and ended up in the hospital after several tube feeding tries. Read of his ordeal here: His force feeding story on word: https://ffupstuff.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/joshua-scolman-forcefed7-16-1.pdf

Joshua’s story about forcefeeding handwritten original: https://ffupstuff.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/joshua-scolman-7-9-16all.pdf   

Joshua quit the hunger strike after the DOC attempted to force feed him and he nearly died. Story here:

No other state goes to force feeding except as last resort and it is condemned by AMA and many human rights organizations 

Description of Abuse

My name is Joshua Scolman. I’m 32 years old and have been incarcerated for 10 years.  I have been placed in solitary confinement on numerous occasions for from 3 months to a year, and am now serving a year of solitary time, at which point I will be placed on administrative confinement for defending myself against the abuse and conduct of staff. Each time I come to seg, I lose myself a little more. I have my religious freedoms completely denied,   I’m subject to psychological torture, which leads to continual deterioration of my mental faculties. I am denied human contact, which leads me to further anti-social behavior, which in turn causes me more problems. It is a slippery slope. I am currently held in a cell with a window facing a brick wall, no view of nature, the sky, sun or outside life. My religion of Odinism is a nature religion, and it’s through the outdoors I see my Gods so I am deprived of this as well. I have contracted many psychological “ticks” such as OCD, communication problems, and PTSD.  I’m continually stressed out over insignificant things. And it’s only getting worse. The mass hysteria these seg units infects men with is real, and very serious. The public needs to be aware of the damage being done to so many prisoners across the state, and nationwide, and to act to correct the problem of long term segregation sentences.

We are establishing contact with Joshua and have invited him to write regularly for this blog. 

If you would like to write him, here is his info: Joshua Scolman 422508; Po Box 351; Waupun, WI 53963

Joe turney

My Introduction from Being Up In Solitary So Long

	Joe Turney 466457;CCI PO Box 900, Portage, WI 53901; BD 1981 (31Y.O.) Joe Turney

 

My name is Joe Turney 466457 Im housed at CCI

My Story- Ay- anyone is okay to write me

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Everything I am about to tell you readers are things that I myself been through or witness  with my own two eyes but before I go any further let me say this:

        “if we the people let the DOC tell it, all the inmates are either over- exaggerating or lying”

I been in prison since 9 25-2013 and since I been locked down I been in solitary for at least five years. Alot of this have to do with my mentally ill issue. For years I have been a “MH-2A inmate” and for those of you that don’t know what that is,, it means my mental health code is very high and I need treatment . And out of nowhere just a few months ago CCI just drop everyone MH- code down to a “MH-1” so that the DOC-CCI can benefit from it. I was sent for WCI to CCI in 2017 and since I been here I been in solitary 22 months and on top of that I have been beaten by staff members, I myself have been dragged down the hallway naked. I had my head slammed in the doorway! I had staff put their fingers up in my butt, I been refused meds and refused mental health treatment. I been thrown in control because I told staff I wanted to kill myself! I have been put in a room for days, weeks , without any clothes to until i told staff I wasn’t going to try to kill myself. To this day i’m in seg-solitary in a building- they call it “DS-1” where they don’t give no inmates anything to drink with we can’t get milk we get chesse( cheese?) three times a day with our meals. We can’t get anything out our personal property but paper. No soap, no toothpaste, no hairfood for your hair, no deto , no shampoo. And on top of everything else their not even allowing us inmate to order it! But they call there self giving us little packets that only last 30 minutes to an hour. And were only allowed to use them once maybe twice a week max! Were getting feed on the floor which staff call a “lower trap”- all three meal tray come to us cold and not enough food on the tray. Were being refused phone calls to our family with nothing we can do about it! OH and please don’t let me talk to you people about the inmate complaint system they have here at CCI. Just let me say this its no winning with these people there never wrong-and its(.i.e.; the answer to any problem) always give them more time. And 99% of the chance one or two thing happen you’ll get in the mail( 99% of the time the response to your  complaint is:)-

1)a return to sender giving you the  run around

2) dismissal

CCI Institution Complaint Examiner: “let’s just say they take good care of their own.”

outline of liquid SOAP PACKET given to  prisoners in solitary confinement in CCI a few  times a week, not enough for one good wash up,  submitted by Joe Turney ( discussed above)

   One thing I have learned here about CCI its not such a thing as a cry for help! because they don’t give a damn about you! And I’m about to end this letter real soon but this is what’s messed up about the DOC –CCI the same people that we the inmate write up a complaint on 6 months or a year later are being promoted to Sgt. LT or Capts. There being rewarded instead of discipline!

sent and wrote from Joe Turney

Thank you for reading this may you all be blessed!