December 05, 2015
Staff here at Madison has continued to restrict me from my right to study files and documents in the law library. This prison continues to break the rules set in place for them to follow in order to insure that we as inmates are treated as fair and humane as possible. What's even more frustrating is the fact that I continue to point out these violations of my rights and yet not a single person lifts a finger to help that is with the exception of another inmate and my only friend. From time to time I get a rare opportunity to communicate with him, but I did get a chance to voice some of my struggles, requesting his help in gathering some of the DRC rules in order to help me fight this injustice. Well today I finally got ahold of these rules and policies that I've so desperately been trying to acquire and as I read it I become even more frustrated. Over and over I'm reading paragraph after paragraph, rules that were set in place to help someone in my position and yet in my case these rules were blatantly disregarded. I'm so mad right now; this entire situation could have been avoided if this prison and its officials would have just followed their own procedures when dealing with my protest to a false urine screen that was created by my daily medications. What makes me even more upset is the money that my parents forked out to some useless attorney that has the resources to help me has done nothing for me but make a simple phone call that probably took less than five minutes of his time. I've accomplished so much more from this 5x9' cell, locked down 23 hours of each day, with prison officials breaking more rules to keep me from finding the truth and exposing their corrupt actions that result in wining my case and creating a possible uproar amongst all the other inmates wrongfully held in cell isolation for a false urine screening and poorly executed procedure made by this extremely shady prison. No matter how many people tell me to put this issue behind me and leave it alone, I will not stop until my record is cleared of this ridiculous accusation. I have busted my butt over these last few years to achieve the exact opposite when it comes to a reputation of trust, respect and sobriety, I'll be damned if I let some people who could care less about my life and future take away the very thing that I've worked so hard for, something that's so priceless, money can't buy trust, or respect, sobriety and it certainly can't be earned in a day.
Steven Dybvad
