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| Childeric Maxy |
My name is Childeric Maxy , I’ve been down ( locked up)
since feb. 2000. My first experience with the “hole” or (segregation) came at
about 6 months into my incarceration. I was in Dodge Corr. Inst when I got to
the seg building Unit ##20 . I believe female inmates were housed like next
door; space was scarce in these units. I was in a 5ft by 9 ft cell. The stench
in the window was great; the window is small 3 by 15 inches, a glass opening is
the same in most seg cells, under that glass window were a cluster of holes
drilled in the steel door through which we were allowed to communicate to the officers
and another way to communicate to each other, some through the same holes
drilled in the air vent, we communicate to other inmates
upstairs and next door. These openings in the door and windows ere reeked of a
squalid odor mixed emissions of spit, urine, feces, milk and every known body
fluids, that can be thrown, wiped against these holes; some holes were filled with
cheap, generic toothpaste, issued by the WDOC and old torn newspapers to block
the vent in the winter time, preventing cold air from blowing in the cell.
These cells have a light that shine perpetually in most DOC
holes; the light in the cell at Stanley Corr Inst has a switch to turn it on
and off. IN other institutions that I’ve been to ( GBCI, DOC, WCI) all these
let the light shine continually around the clock , in your face.
The toilet s and sink are made of aluminum alloy or stainless steel,
the sinks and toilets are a unit> and the water in the sinks are emitted like
the water in a water fountain; it will take up to two minutes for the water to
get hot in the sink.
To read entire essay, including descriptions of observation, click below.
https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/childeric-maxy-time-in-hole.pdf
