Wednesday, May 6:
Yesterday afternoon “captain” Mousseau came into the day room to tell us the boiler is broken, and there’s 1-80 gal. H/W heater for the entire jail. He told us the showers would be cold, and it wouldn’t be fixed for a day or two. He asked us to “bear with them” for a few days while they got this fixed.
At the last outside recreation, which we’re given a few times a week, Kelly Pouliot was talking with me. I forget how it came up, but she suggested that I now lived at the jail.
There’s another aspect to their system that I missed up this point. The jail superintendent Richard Van-Wickler does what he can to ensure the “inmates” are treated with courtesy and respect by the guards.
What did I miss? The people working in this governmental “justice” system are delusional.
I’m not an inmate, I’m a prisoner. I don’t live here, I’m being held captive here.
I won’t bear with them, we have no choice but to take it.
I was at a hotel in Scotland when the power went out one evening. It wasn’t their fault, a couple of blocks were affected and it would be out for the night. They ordered pizzas for guests in the lobby, bellhops carried guests up with flashlights, they rebooked anyone who requested it, and they were very accommodating to anyone who wanted to “bear with them.”
Of course, that’s in the private market where no single entity is granted a monopoly on providing hotel rooms for all their efforts. The jail is putting lipstick on a pig. The boiler, which suffered a ruptured tank is supposed to be fixed Friday.
There is a better way.
SamIAm
