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| Daniel McBride |
I,
Daniel R. McBride, under 28 U.S.C. Section 1746 and penalty of perjury bring
this affidavit
in good faith and do sweat the following is
true and current to the best of my knowledge.
1.
I am presently confined in the Seg Unit of the
Wisconsin Correctional Institution at Waupun, WI 53963.
2.
On September 10, 2013, I was placed on
Administrative Confinement (AC) by the WCI Administrative Confinement
members. Ms. Bonis, Social Worker
Supervisor, Officer Gundy, COII, and Capt. Westra. Their decision reason was stated as: Inmate’s gang-related activities, Inmate’s
past conduct. Perhaps the most
disturbing incident or concern was taking a social worker hostage at WRC and
Group Resistance and Petitioning, attempt hostage, conspiracy, manufacture or
use of a weapon, aggravated assault, and endangering safety.
3.
Since being placed on AC I have been placed in
Observation Status on 2/1/14 for 6 days, 4/14/14 for 20 days, 7/9/14 for 9
days, 9/11/15 for 4 days, 9/29/15 for 3 days and 11/29/15 for 1 day.
4.
Each time I was placed in observation was
because of the fact of my being confined in a cell without any help from a
clinician (psychologist) for 24 hours a day, and people hollering and screaming
on the tier.
5.
Being on AC denies me access to some of my
religious books and groups due to the fact that the chaplain cannot send any
pagan books to seg, but yet other religions can.
6.
Ms. Baird, the former PSU Supervisor, who did
an evaluation of me and said that I’m a “Mtt2b” mental health class, meaning a
‘serious mental illness.” She told me to
get involved in PSU (Psychological Services Unit-conducted) groups, but there
are not any more PSU groups available, period.
These groups were stopped around February 11, 2015, but I did manage to
complete the CGIP program with the Social workers before the Seg Team stopped
that program from being available.
7.
Being confined to a cell 24 hours a day has
caused me stress because of the noise on the tier and nothing to do; no fresh air;
no access to clinical services, nor access to my religious books.
8. Ms. Bonnie Halder, the WCI crisis worker, has told me as well as my attorney that people with mental problems cannot get the treatment they need due to the lack of time with an inmate and lack of programs, and PSU are not around 24 hours a day.
9.
Being
an AC has caused me many mental problems.
Has caused me to overdose, writing poems about death, draw about
death. Being on medication makes me pace
back and forth, cut myself because I cannot talk to clinicians, and the noise,
lack of fresh air being in a cell, and lack of recreation, lack of treatment
groups, in a cell with a brighter light on 24 hours a day; lack of religious
books, not able to make group.
10. My mental health has gotten worse
due to the fact that I’m in AC and being placed in observation as a
consequence.
11. Many prisoners have been placed
in observation due to the fact that inmates on AC cannot get the help that they
need. In observation you get a green
smock, a black hard rubber mat, and a green security blanket with the light on
24 hours a day with an officer checking on you every 15 minutes.
12. In a regular cell there’s no
fresh air, no good air flow and the rooms are cold and loud.
13. I have talked to many clinicians
since I’ve been on AC because of my mental health getting worse due to being in
a room 24 hours a day; thoughts of self-harm, cutting myself, and overdosing a
few times. My diagnosis has gotten
worse, as well, as PSU has listed me for:
(A) Personality Disorder Mitch Type
(B) Poly = Substance Abuse
(C) Antisocial Personality Disorder
(D) Emotional Psypregulation (I don’t think that’s
right, but that’s what it says)
(E)
Emotional Disorder
(F)
Past Traumatic Stress Disorder
(G) Poly-Substance Dependence in Controlled
Environment
(H) Borderline Personality Disorder
(I)
Borderline Intellectual Functioning
(J)
Mtt2b (mental health classification)
14. My diagnosis and mental health
class have gotten worse and going to observation because of noise, being locked
in a cell 24 hours a day, because of noise on the tier, looking at the
hallways, thoughts of self-harm, and no access to the help that I need. PSU staff n longer stops by my cell to speak
with me.
I
am competent to testify to all of the above. Executed at Waupun, Wisconsin On
January 20, 2016
