In forming this new blog I am inserting older reports from Jason, before posting his latest report. Also, Jason's book is ready for publishing. If anyone is interested in a copy please send $5 for shipping and printing to: Mary-Ellen Pecci, 211 Campbells Pond Road, West Bath, ME 04530.


FIRST ANNUAL REPORT

2005 / Four facilities, four years. It's probably just bad Karmic timing that I put off writing this until later in this week and get to it on the 4th anniversary of "catching my case," in prison par­lance. What happened to get here is a confluence of bad events that are not the intent of this blog. I feel that criminal justice ex­periences of the past four years and the unique perspective of an inside view are more appropriate.

Prison is a self-perpetuating system and western culture sucks, to be concise. Here is a quick time line to show where those sent­iments developed: April->Nov 2001 (7 months) County detention center for trial/judgement/sentencing; one month inprocessing to the peni-tentary system; late Dec 2001->July 2003 (20 months) Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility in eastern plains of Colorado; Aug 2003->Oct 2004 (15 months) Bent County Correntional Facility, further east into the remote plains; Nov 2004->present Fremont CF, Canon City prison complex, out of the plains into moderate mountains about 30 miles east of Pueblo.

I started to type, then handwrote after about 2000 words, the story of transition from normal to prison life. Approximately 22,000 tell of the initial period. To be minimum novel length the story will have to be double that, starting with my arrival at the first facility (AVCF). While there is environment and story worth 25 k-words, my involuntary move to the second facility (BCCF) - a priv­ately owned and operated trick bag of greasers and shysters that would make you want to vomit and renounce US citizenship - forced a more political bent and I wrote a dozen op-eds while there, which I hope to staple together and make available. This is where I dev­eloped animus for the criminal justice system and western culture obsession with out-sourcing (abdicating responsibility for) penology.

Now I reside back under state auspices (FCF) and am, in very relative terms, content; as I was under state auspices at AVCF, after an initial adjustment period.
I hope that suffices as an introduction to current circumstances and encourages you out there to respond or query at will. I am good for 600->1000 words of monologue on almost any topic but prefer dialog. Look forward to hearing from you.

PEACE, Jason