May, 2002
San Francisco, CA
National Organization for
the Reform of Marijuana Laws Conference
Dale Gieringer (CA NORML) introduces Dr. Marion "Mollie" Fry
and her husband Dale Schafer.
POLITICS 83
Let your VOICE be heard! Contact your House of Representatives today.
Touch Here
Finaly we arrived at the Federal Detention Center (FDC) Hawaii. We could see the location on the airport tarmac where we had been loaded into the busses and all the security was to drive us around the airport on public roads. The local cops waited in large numbers until armed guards, wearing bullet-proof vests, deployed to form a perimeter. A door opened to an underground driveway and the first bus backed inside and the door closed. My bus was the second to enter the building.
We were told to get off the bus and proceed into the building. We were again identified, our shackles and cuffs were removed, and we were sent into a concrete room with wooden benches. There were no toilets so immediately, a guy began to loudly complain he was going to shit his pants if he didn’t get to a toilet, called a shitter. Apparently he was not willing to do his business on the plane with the door open. We were each taken out, several at a time, to be processed, picture taken, finger prints taken, stripped, given new clothing and back into the holding cell. We were each sent to talk to medical, psych, social services for country of origin and potential gang affiliation and security problems. I had the opportunity to speak with the medical staff about my hemophilia and I was removed to the medical SHU for my protection until the facility could obtain the medicine needed to stop me from bleeding should anything happen. I once again found myself alone in a cell with a bunk, a toilet and this time a shower. At least I could see outside and light could enter. My pineal was feeling better already, but the rest of me was very uneasy.
Next time: Vacation in Hawaii Pt. 2.5
Special thanks to:
Can-Do Clemency
The Leaf Online
Wikipedia
Bureau of Prisons