Day 185
3/26/15
It’s been two
weeks since I saw my counselor and I’m still here, trying not to get
discouraged but it’s been 10 weeks and 71 days in receiving and I’m ready to
go. On the bright side it was so quiet all day in our room now that H-Bang is
gone. Silence is Golden!
The silence
didn’t last too long, as we were getting ready for dinner, the inmates from
housing unit 501 are starting to come out of the chow hall when the alarm goes
off. We notice the officers running so it’s a fight and a big one, because
next thing I know they have 8 women handcuffed and sitting in the grass outside
the chow hall. There are cops everywhere including one with a huge beanbag gun.
You don’t want to be shot with the bean bags because not only will you be “shot”
you will be charged $75 for the replacement of each bean bag that they shot at you. The officers have
moved the women that were outside of the chow hall when the alarm went off to
the side as they are giving medical care to the 8 handcuffed women due to the
pepper spray that was used to stop the fight.As they tend to the 8 the alarm goes off again and
they going running in and bring out two more women in handcuffs. They now empty
out the entire chow hall and have all the women sitting outside for crowd
control. After about 30 minutes the
officers escort everyone back to their unit 10-15 women at a time. Once everyone
is back in their housing unit the officer with the gun and her partner leave
our yard. The sergeant is now working on getting all the officers statements
and making sure everyone is finished being seen at medical. They release one of
the ladies back to her housing unit as they are finishing up processing this
mess, the alarm goes off again the cops go running to 501 it’s another fight. They
bring out two girls, one is the girl they just let go back to her unit. The
Officers lock up the two of them in the cages in the sergeant’s office while
they move the 8 from the chow hall riot to R&R (receiving and release) to finish processing the
incident. All 8 women are being charged with inciting a riot. The 8 are looking
at possible additional time and they will definitely be doing some time in Ad
Seg. (Administrative Segregation Unit). Finally over two hours later they
release unit 503 for dinner. By the time they release us for dinner its 8:15pm,
at dinner they had double the cops and they gave us two minutes to eat, they
wanted us in and out quickly.
There were
about 20 people fighting in the chow hall brawl, but most of them got away. The
cops only arrested 8 and out of the 8 only 5 went to Ad Seg. It was no surprise
that Peaches and Taya were two of the 5. The rumors on the yard started immediately
everyone wanted to know how and why the fight started. Some said it was a race riot, Blacks vs. Mexicans, others said it was just a big fight. Ducey one of the 8
that got arrested said it was not racial that is had to do with some issue
earlier in the day over in 501.
Story one was
a window got broken earlier in the day and the entire room got shot gunned (Shot
Gun: when the cops move all 8 women out of the room to new rooms and/or housing
units) and the fight was about the broken window. Story two was that a Mexican
girl was in Ad Seg. with Peaches and Ducey and she didn’t get along with them
and when she got released from Ad Seg. she put the word out to go after them
and that “hit” is what got the fight going. Story three was the fight was over
a girlfriend (90% of all fights are over girlfriends) and final story was the
fight was over some mascara.
"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting."
Day 186
3/27/15
After the “riot”
(in prison a fight involving 3 or more people is no longer a fight it is a
riot) last night we woke up to extra security and a full staff for breakfast. Everyone
got to and from breakfast without incident, but it didn’t last long as a fight
broke out this morning in B hall. Two girls got into an argument and one cupped
(Cupped-when an inmate uses their state issued cup and strikes another inmate
in the face or head) the other and it was so bad she had to be
taken in the ambulance. The fight delayed our program time (Program- the time
given to inmates daily outside of their cell) but at least we got to program as
C and D ( In receiving we are split up by the halls we live in A&B and
C&D) did not get to program today due to last nights incident.
After dinner
14 plus officers with gloves, bags, and metal detectors head towards 501, it
was a huge raid on the entire housing unit. When they were done they headed
into our housing unit but only raided C and D hall. It’s been an insane week,
never a dull moment in Chowchilla!
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