More Petty Retribution in Pelican Bay Following Ashker Settlement

I have been unable to respond promptly due to various things happening here in the SHU. For example, based on the settlement agreement a lot of people are going up for committee and getting kicked back out to the mainline.

Well it seems these pigs aren’t liking the settlement and have instituted a mass search from block to block. Mines was hit a few weeks back and to appease their anger/or retribution almost all radios and CD players were confiscated with the excuse of gluing shut the battery console or the security tape/seal is in the wrong place or tampered with therefore rules violation reports (RVRs) were issued out! The same with certain TVs!

Yeah things took a turn where petty nit-picking was given a new meaning. My circumstances were just as bad. After my whole pod was pulled out and placed in visiting rooms to await our pod search for nearly 5 hours. We were escorted back only for some to find total disarray in our cells, confiscated radios for similar reasons as explained above and I noticed my TV was damaged I brought to the supervising sgt attention who was willing to have my TV repaired until I mention the pig who searched my cell must of did something foul for which he immediately flipped the script and attempted to accuse me of damaging my own TV to gain something from CDCR. This blatant denial of the obvious was in attempts to have me react negatively to get sprayed out. For which I didn’t, due to my placement that same day for transfer it didn’t seem like a wise decision.

This just goes to show how CDCR behaves when pressure is put on them to change their policies of unconstitutional practices. Recently I have mentioned that while people have been getting kicked out the SHU their cells have been left vacant. This still holds true as of me writing this. The pigs are beginning to fill up empty cells on the lower tier with prisoners from upper tier whether it’s same pod or not, my pod is currently full because of people form other pods moving in. We inquired as to when more people will drive up and we were told until whole tiers are left vacant. An ambiguous response as there’s at least 3 pods with up to 5 or less people. 2 pods have no one on upper tier. So I’m not sure in what direction the SHU is heading or what purpose it will serve in the near future? While the big search on our block the sergeant actually told a whole pod that this will become common practice due to training COs and maintaining their employment for our releases will make their jobs obsolete in the SHU. The veracity of this pig’s tirade is plausible yet we’ve heard other rumors for our blocks search/raid the underlying issue is the pigs are seeking retribution and looking for anything to write us up for.

I didn’t get hit with a RVR as the pigs raiding my cell damaged my TV (intentionally or accidentally) is questionable, although I had to file a 602 and the outcome is yet to come at my new facility.