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ACTIONS AND REACTIONS (Part 2)
By Derrick Jackson, Texas Death Row
Since my first start article of Actions
and Reactions I wondered if I’d
do another for reasons but good old
3rd shift Sgt. Duff made this one
possible!
Actions and Reactions. On 1/28/02 at
about 3:30 am breakfast time Sgt.
Duff is on F Pod serving cold trays
for breakfast! He asked me if I
wanted coffee and why I had a cup as
well! (don’t ask me, ask him). I
tell him that I did want a cup and
that my cup was returned to me after
being illegally confiscated for a short
period of days as a result of
something done by another inmate! Now
although I’ve been ordered by Sgt.
Duff to go and sit on my bunk if I
want to be served breakfast, I notice
that Sgt. Duff is operating „the box“
at my door improberly; I just
laugh. Good at Sgt. Duff – the next
day he obviously has been trained to
do it properly „I thought“ until he
shot my hand in the slot! When I
brought this to his attention after
he did it a second time that my hand
was the reason it wasn’t closing, he
gets mad and tells me that he
didn’t mean to do it on purpose and
asked me if I needed to go to
medical! Sgt. Duff has been simply
amazing me since I met him over a
year and a half ago, but I guess it
is not his fault, some people are
just born that way – but these are
the type of people that are in
positions of authority.
Today is the 4th of Feb. and Sgt. Duff
actually frightened me in this
meaning, he’s up at my cell door to
serve breakfast with a big riot
shield (and I am waking up wondering
what’s going on) asking me if I
want to eat. I’m almost afraid to say
yes. I’m noticing the female with
the coffee (pouring it) doesn’t have
on a hairnet nor does the inmate
carrying the trays on the tray carrier
but Sgt. Duff is serving another
breakfast tray and has this big riot
shild up at my cell door.
Now on Thurs 1-31-02 there were 3 inmates
gassed and I know that one
specifically was because of his reaction
(refusal to be served cold
food) to the cold trays. One guy was
gassed and bet up by guards
(because the way most celldoors were
designed he was able to prevent the
guards from enterin his cell). When
they finally were able to run in his
cell the 5 man team (embarrassed frustrated
or whatever) took it out on
him and the guy suffered multiple injuries;
dislocted shoulder and on
elbow injury and many extensive visible
bruises – we heard him screaming
out in pain over in the next section
that I live in – he was moved out
of the cell and moved upstairs here
where I live. Although the guards
had just struggled for nearly an hour
removing one inmate from this
cell, another was immediately moved
in! Don’t ask me – it has to make
sense to someone! These inncidents
are occuring because inmates want hot
food or want to be in cells where the
lights work. One inmate in F 58
has been without a working light and
is unable to do his legal work and
reasearch unless in the daylight hours
– the Sgts are writing him
disciplinary cases (for not complying)
to get or in efforts toget his
light fixed!
Funny thing happened just before the
end of Jan. the guards (rumor
has it) ran out of gass! I can’t confirm
this but I do know that late in Jan.
the guards ran in on two inmates for
the first time ever (I’ve known
since I’ve been here) without spraying
the chemical agents. The
chemical agents are generally the first
course of actions by guards
even when it’s obviously not necessary!
I’ll now tell of these boxes – I lough,
they are a joke for me and
definately a hazzard and obsticle to
the guards – they don’t prevent the
guards from being thrown on and truly
increase the chances for injury to
them! But – as I say I just laugh ...
It slows the level of intelligence
of those who are in charge – like good
old Sgt. Duff.
Lastely a note from last weeks article
about the thermals being picked
up before the winter months are gone
– well Major Lester told Roy Pippin
that he did in direct retaliation to
a grievance filed by Mr. Pippin.
I guess this was done so that all of
us would turn against Mr. Pippin,
well that will never happen!
Actions and Reactions
Death Row Chronicles
Derrick Jackson
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