Conditions deteriorate at Kern Valley
What is the deal at Killa Kern Valley State prison here in California? Is it Amerikka’s society economic meltdown, or is it CDCR’s capitalist truly saying “buck the world, let’s get paid”. At the moment Kern Valley prisoners are experiencing some major difficulties with obtaining the things we have coming from the state. And it is becoming worse and worse with each day that goes by. They have come up with a new budget cut campaign, and they aren’t doing any playing, or half stepping.
Recently they came with a variety of snake tactics that will help them take from us to save funds, and not be seen doing it. It will be done in a manner that would make society respond with a “so what” attitude.
At this point administration has succeeded in limiting the general population’s usage of flushing toilets in order to cut back on the prison’s consumption of water. They’ve shortened the amount of toilet tissue from a small roll to an extra small one. Basically they’ve forced us (two prisoners per cell) to make what was used to last one person whole week, last two people a whole week. Not only can we not sit on the toilet and pass gas freely while the smell is flushed away to the pipes, keeping the scent out of the cell. We have to figure out a way to keep ourselves wiped properly without using up all of the tissue. It’s kind of barbaric if you ask me.
The prices of various canteen items are on the rise like gas prices. Top Ramen noodle soups are 25 cents, up from a recent 20 cents, and the price of rice, beans, and peanut butter is up as well. The dinner trays are ridiculously short, sometimes missing a whole part of the meal. And the nutrition sack lunch isn’t so nutritious at all. At the moment California prisoners who owe restitution fees are being taxed 55% of whatever funds their hard working families send them. Coffee is up $7.50 from $4.50, and they are planning to boost the restitution fee by 5%. That’s more than half of California prisoner’s money taken before they’ve even got the opportunity to shop at the overpriced shopping market.
They’ve let this yard off lockdown for the moment, but it seems to be something they’ve done on paper just to cover their asses and the asses of the California senate. Blacks can’t get the same working/education opportunities as other races. Nor can the convict population as a whole receive adequate access to the law library (or religion services).
This institution and its officials are foul. It’s as if we’re truly being physically attacked by the capitalistic forces, and no one of society is taking note.
