Day 115: A Whole Lotta Nothing
- mainemoviepirate
- 5 days ago
- 2 min read
Original Entry: Friday, 10/15/21
Morning: Little sleep. Spent the time leading up to the "Big Inspection" in the Law Library working on copyright law and FOIA research.
Inspection: The Associate Warden (AW) and his team did a walk-through that lasted less than five minutes. They didn't even pass by the cubicells.
Lunch: Tuna Fish Friday, hummus, bean soup, and an orange.
Afternoon: Got cornered by A.K. for a photo shoot. Felt bad for him because he was universally disliked, but the photo was a setup to showcase his "friendship" with the downtrodden.
Supper: Chicken chunks, cheese, hot dog roll, and carrots.
Media: Bergman Island.
Four Years Later: The Retrospective
The Inspection Day farce was a perfect case study in how the system manages the "COVID era." While everyone was running around like headless chickens to meet CDC-adjacent rules, it was all for show. The moment the brass left, the camp snapped right back to being sloppy. That five-minute walk-through wasn't meant to inspect the facilities; it was meant to inspect our compliance.
The most frustrating part was the medical mismanagement—using the SHU (Special Housing Unit) for "quarantine" was a sick joke. From Devens to Brooklyn to Lewisburg, I saw a dozen different ways they failed to manage the pandemic. It’s why I started drafting the concept for "Incarcerated in the Age of COVID". I envisioned it as an anecdotal collection of stories and facts from that era, with the potential tagline, "We're Both Naked".
And then there was the photo shoot with A.K. It’s grimly hilarious that he used my prosthetic leg as a prop to signal his own virtue. He wanted the world to see him as a savior to the "downtrodden" for his own "wrongful" incarceration narrative. It’s a reminder that even in prison, people are still trying to perform for an audience that isn't there.
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