Sam’s Jail Blog: Tuesday, May 12

May 18, 2009 by Sam Dodson
Filed under: Obscured Truth Network, Outreach, Personal Freedom, Update

Tuesday, May 12:
Sam
I was reclassified earlier in the week and sent down to the gymnasium, aptly renamed the MPR because housing prisoners in a gym is considered inhumane. There are 27 metal cots, 4-6 of which are typically empty. There’s one bathroom, no shower, a multi-function workout station, and a door that leads to a fenced-in yard. The door is opened sometime in the morning and closed sometime after dark.

The prisoners here don’t seem to care much about the room. They don’t bother cleaning the tables after eating, trash is often left lying around, and the bathroom 20+ guys use is pretty disgusting. The last group had a sense of community. Here the prisoners are primarily in their 20s, many are self-centered, immature, most hold a very negative outlook, and at least two can’t read. The guards (same people) are much more talkative and friendly down here compared to upstairs. The vast majority of their crimes stem from a drug problem exacerbated by the drug war and punitive government system.

This program is the jail’s idea of rehabilitating prisoners a few months before they are released. After spending a few days here, I’m appalled at what I’ve seen. It’s a strange cross between a chain gang, a slave plantation, and a pre-Industrial Revolution company-owned mining town.

Some prisoners request to be moved here so they can work, while others re drafted into working without their consultation. The jobs: prison laundry, night cleaning crew, kitchen duty, the farm, the nursing home, or with a laundry list of approvals, work release.

Let’s take the latter first. These are prisoners, so the jobs open to them are limited. One guy makes $9/hour or about $350/week. Out of that he has to pay $20/day of work to the jail. You can work up to 6 days a week. In his case that’s $100/week. The jail is outside of town so he spends $40-50/week on gas. He has to have a cell phone in case he’s late, the care breaks down or they want to check up on him. There goes another $15/week. Visiting residences is prohibited, so laundry must be done at the laundromat. No one may visit at work or bring lunch. Eating at restaurants is prohibited, so food must be bought at the grocery store in the morning and left in the car where he must also eat if not at work.

Everything he needs at the jail must be bought at the company store’s commissary inflated prices, which just went up. (2 weeks ago a box of saltines, 4 sleeves, cost $1.75, and now 1 sleeve costs $1.30) His car obviously has expenses associated with it, and some how he’s supposed to save money before he gets out. As if that’s not enough, they do site visits to check on people. The problem is, they show up in a Sheriff’s car wearing a correctional outfit. I’m sure it does wonders for his career and professional advancement.

In my opinion, that’s the best program they are offered. Of course my work requires odd hours, occasional travel, and I edit at home. This program is deisgned to put people in low skilled, low wage jobs that turn out good little obedient subjects who pay the government’s taxes and do as they are told. More to come…

Kelly Pouliot corrected me on a previous post maintaining that her cannabis use is part of her past. Last time we spoke on the subject I asked her how she felt about jailing (caging) peaceful drug users. her response was, “I didn’t put them here.” So this time I asked if she would feel the same if it were her or one of her 3 children? She told me “They’re not.” The fact that it’s a personal choice she’s made for herself didn’t seem to register. (nor did the idea of self ownership or victimless “crimes”)

Anyway, to my captors, welcome to FreeKeene.com, and thanks for reading. Check out the “new here” link, and the free audio book. The Market for Liberty does a great job of explaining our ideas and philosophy.

SamIAm

James

Thanks for keeping us posted Sam. Respect.
http://alongsidenight.ar.to/ Jim Davidson

Jailers always prey on their victims.

"Everything he needs at the jail must be bought at the company store’s commissary inflated prices, which just went up. (2 weeks ago a box of saltines, 4 sleeves, cost $1.75, and now 1 sleeve costs $1.30)"

The government of Keene is evil. From the comments on this site, it seems like the people of Keene deserve the government there.
Lpviper

No one who is a peaceful person deserves to have their rights violated by tyrants, Jim.

I'm starting to think you are the evil one. At the very least, you are vindictive and condescending.

What did they do to you to make you this way?
Markus

Thanks for telling like it is Sam.

A box of Saltines can be had for about a buck at Wal Mart and the state (who should get a discount for volume purchasing) is charging $5.20 for a box of Saltines (4 sleeves) to their captive audience, to those innocent, until proven guilty.

One thing the Government does seem to be very good at is charging people obscene prices for whatever the hell it wants.

Obey, and never forget to obey and you'll always get along just fine with your regional group of Public Masters, who you will serve for the rest of your life (or not).
Markus

As stated in some earlier posts, if a murderer suspect wouldn't say his name, he'd still be brought to some type of arraignment/hearing/bail release but this is about them teaching Sam a lesson. They want Sam to play Simon Sez but he's not playing.

And he's smarter then them because he knows the longer this story drags out, the more it gets out and the bigger the potential civil lawsuit case becomes.

I'd like to recommend people call the jailhouse, etc. more so this judge will finally change his stance (but he does seem to remind me of a jackass, i.e.; stubborn), I have known and rode many a good mule so no disrepect intended towards mules!
charley hardman

i'm sickened that sam is being held hostage, but glad he's publicizing something the obedient/lucky/elusive don't really ever hear about.

in my recent prison experience, the gem of the dirty tricks from the uniformed psychos was them taking my cash upon initial kidnapping — against my permission (naturally) — and installing it in their BS "commissary" account, from which i wasn't going to "buy" a damned thing. when the psychos were finally ordered to release me upon my extortion collateral payoff and cut to the bond collaborators, i was dumped onto the streets of a strange town, on a cold and windy december evening, broke ("you'll get a check in the mail for your commissary balance."), clothed in a t-shirt and windbreaker, with my cell phone 15 miles down the road in my stolen car (also held hostage and awaiting a $700 extortion courtesy of the crime collaborators posing innocently as "towing service").

the sociopaths live for that sort of sendoff. they thrive watching you getting pissed on by their bureaucracy. early on, sam correctly highlighted the systemic deception and rank cruelty practiced by these thugs with the authenticity of the snarliest junk SS guard you ever saw in a WWII movie.

the best people in the hostage cage warehouse were those in the cages. sam corroborates this with nearly every report. my continual thought when locked away — unlike sam, completely incommunicado — was that the "good germans" in that town could not know what was going on inside those chambers. they could not really know and still allow it.

having heard some of the keene statists calling in to the radio, that was an irrationally hopeful belief.

BTW, i was not surprised to find that the check for the money stolen from me was sent to the wrong address. got it months later, after wrangling overmuch in person while pointing to the correct address that was already on their form.

dunno about NH "law", but i recommend highly to all liberty advocates that you memorize crucial phone numbers (land line, as ian has stressed elsewhere), and execute a special power of attorney document so that your vehicle may be picked up by someone else if you're rotting in a cage. this of course leads to the happy conundrum invented by the state wherein you're supposed to have "vehicle registration" with you at all times on the road, but kept with you, not the car. the answer, of course, is to do the opposite of what the state blathers.
Zeus

That is by far the most cogent post I've seen you make yet, Charley.
RidleyReport

Jim Davidson I'm reluctant to judge you too quickly. But based on your angry vindictive posts thus far I think you may focused on the wrong website, on the wrong state, and the wrong movement.

Assuming you have not yet moved here…NH may not be the place for you, and the Free Stater movement may not be the movement for you.

Folks who come here with a vindictive approach, sometimes have their hearts in the right place but fare badly within the movement.