A Year in The Life of An Innocent Inmate
2023 hasn’t been my year, 2024 isn’t looking much better.
Being an inmate isn’t a walk in the park — being an innocent man stuck in prison might be the worst type of hell. This isn’t my first year in prison, I’ve been here since October 2021, but it feels like this past year, and especially these last few months have been even more of a struggle.
Hope is one of the things you do your best to hold onto when you’re in prison.
I knew I had my yearly custody review coming up in November, and I had hoped this year, I would be approved for minimum custody. I qualify, but then again, I did qualify last year and wasn’t approved. Unfortunately, this year wasn’t any different, even though I more than qualified again.
No one will tell me definitively why I was denied, only that I was. But I know. This camp doesn’t want to let go of inmates. They get paid for keeping people here and earn money for being at capacity. I’m a model inmate, have never been in trouble, help others, and generally stay to myself when possible.
This year we’ve talked a lot about about GTL/Viapath, the monopoly that now runs everything financially in the prison system. As of today, there’s nothing money-related they don’t have a hand in. Phone calls, letters, messaging…
