A Support System Special Report
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Robert A. Bartlett, Sr. J. D.“ Yankee Lawyer”
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I write it’ s what I do. Some prisoners gamble; some do drugs; some shore tattoo needles, I write. The guards don’ t like it. Shortly after I was transferred to my current prison. Labor correctional institution, Tabor Correctional Institution.( I was removed from Pasquotank C, J, after I caused a major state audit of the sewing plant there). I was locked up in the hole( administrative segregation) and some of my legal papers and correspondence were seized. I was told by a captain that the purpose of the prison was to isolate people like me( whoever we are) from society, I told him I didn’ t know that.
I’ m still not sure he was correct, Oh, I’ m sure isolation was one of this goals; but the courts do not agree with him.
They think prisons are to restrict our movements. Court decisions uphold our retained rights( subject to regulation deemed reasonable) of speech, press, association and visitation, among others. Furthermore, although“ disappearing” and isolation were common tools of oppression in Nazi Germany and the former Soviet Union. I know of no government in the world today openly approving of mass isolation.
Nevertheless, the prisoner industrial complex has had a devastating effect upon the American family. Studies have shown that most long-term prisoners lose almost all contact with family and friends in seven( 07) years or less.
So called“ friends” and“ homeboys” fall