by Steven Dybvad | Nov 22, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
November 22, 104 Lately I've been struggling to deal with living day to day with my new, temporary cell mate. Surprisingly I'm able to handle it better than with my past cell mates, maybe it's because I know our stay together will end soon, maybe it's because my...
by Steven Dybvad | Nov 21, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
November 21, 2014 A part of the punishment that the prison officials handed down to me was taking away the good days I earned from being in horticulture. Good days are not at all the reason for me taking horticulture, I only qualify to earn one good day a month,...
by Steven Dybvad | Nov 20, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
November 20, 2014 Ever since the snow and the freezing cold temperatures blew through town, we inmates on cell isolation have been suffering tremendously. When the juveniles destroyed this unit before they left, they didn't just create problems for the prison as they...
by Steven Dybvad | Nov 19, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
November 19, 2014 Yesterday in horticulture class we switched subjects again. Now we're studying landscape and design. We started by moving around all the desks in the classroom, giving every student enough room to set a large wooden board, with T-squares for drawing...
by Steven Dybvad | Nov 18, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
November 18, 2014 The guards here in the isolation unit shake our cells down every single day, usually while we're at the chow hall so they can search through many of the cells quickly and efficiently. Due to the overwhelming number of isolation inmates overflowing...
by Steven Dybvad | Nov 17, 2014 | Steven Dybvad
November 17, 2014 Madison has an area of the prison that houses blind inmates. Every blind inmate is assigned a blind-aid worker; these workers escort the blind inmates to and from places in the compound, like the chow hall, recreation, the doctor, etc. These...
