We need a fire hose!
As we begin a new year, prison issues seem overwhelming! Re the Michigan prison mental health system, Chris says: It's a place where, if you go to try and talk about your problems, they put you in a camera-cell naked with a blanket 24 to 72 hours. All you wanted was someone to talk to. Re the Michigan prison culinary program, Doug describes the 2024 Christmas dinner : The meal was a mushy gray meat, an apple pie missing the apples and a crust so hard my spork bent in half, and what was supposed to be cheesy potatoes. I plucked a palm sized, uncooked, potato out of the soup, which had never seen cheese because it had been stolen and sold back in the units. Re the inability to get either the attention of healthcare or the Parole Board, Larry, age 71, says: One of my legs has been surgically removed, I’m struggling to get treatment for lung cancer, and I have heart disease. I have served over 40 years for a parolable offense, yet I cannot seem to attract suitable...