It don´t stop, want stop!

I like to add a few more points about the terrible living conditions here at Terrell.

Urinalysis Test (piss test): Randomly we are chosen (for the most part) to go take a piss test. I, myself doesn´t have no problem with it because I don´t use drugs. But I often questions myself, just how accurate are these test. Knowing that it is possiblity that, I can go take the test and my urine would come up dirty. Maybe stimulation from a faulty test or just breathing. This place has poor ventalation, very poor, and one many cells down from yours could be doing wrong, and it´ll enter your cell and smell it than you´ll end up dirty. Or an officer passes by your cell and smell it then you´ll end up dirty. Or an officer passes by your cell and smell it as the scent isn´t no longer infront of the one who was doing wrong cell. So then you is under suspicion, you is ask to take a piss test. Your cell is torn all up for nothing. If you ends up being dirty, you will be punish (level 2 or level 3) having nothing over a long period of time. And when in reality you hasn´t done nothing. You can refuse to take the test, but again if you do, you will be punish (level 2 or 3). I believe it is wrong to piss test with no evidence and for someone to be punish for nothing.
It don´t stop, want stop!

Hand washing: Many officers shakes an inmate down coming out of a cell, recreation area, shower etc. And they will touch all on people socks, drawls, T-shirts, clothes. They touches people hands and has to put a hand on someone when escorting them somewhere. The officers also goes to the restroom, picks at their nose, sneezes, messes with their hair, touch a trash can from time to time. Many of them also have sores, blisters and cuts on their hands. All exept for going to the restroom we has seen or sees those things happening. Many of these same officers has to put spoons (for the most part into the main course of food) on our trays and feed us (pass out trays and juice/tea). And when we ask them to wash they hands they is very quick to get an attitude, tells us to shut up, maybe curses at us, tell us they hands are clean, they haven´t done nothing, haven´t touch nothing, want be touching nothing but our trays, etc. etc. We are grown men, and isn´t just going to stand to be talked all crazy to for the most part, so we ask for a supervisor. The officers that working the cell block often refuses to call or go get a ranking officer, so we often has to shout, stump, beat or by any means necessary to get a sergeant, lieutenant, or someone who is above them, down here to address the problem and by this time, go get some new trays. When this happen, often we goes without eating because often a ranking officer never comes. Then we, with a little something will compensate for the ones would been and contaminated the trays, not everyone turns it down, for do care, just like many others here. And I believes that by these officers refusing to wash theirs hands before messing with the food is very unsanitary. Also lets me know what type of person they are and wonders what does they do after taking a shit.
It don´t stop, want stop!

Weather: We are allowed to rec. for 1 hour seven days a week alone. Two days out of the 7 a week, we are to go outside. In the summertime here in Texas it gets scorching hot and at 100 degree plus tempertures, it is too hot and dangerous for anyone to be out running around in the sun. And these folks know that but we still has to go out or no recreation at all. In the winter time here in Texas it don´t get very cold like most places. But at times it does get could and below 40 degree temperatures (and raining at times) it stoo cold for people to be out. But it´s the same with the heat, you either go rec. out there or not at all. Now we has seen these folks close down the outside rec. for a month to make it more secure (reason that benefit them). But when it comes to our benefits, they don´t give a damn. Everyone body reacts different to the heat and the cold, some can take it, some can´t. And with such a poor medical care or attention they gives us when we gets sick, I believes these folks shouldn´t try and make us go outside on bad days and then refuse our rec. because it´s to cold or hot. There are many other means they can compensate our recreation with it being too hot or too cold.
It don´t stop, want stop!

And it want stop, cause it don´t stop for the terrible living conditions, abuse and inhumane treatments here at Terrell, but I will, here for now. Hopefully someone, some way, some how, on the outside this stuff will be address to the prison officals or someone about all the things we are all constantly writing and telling folks that is wrong or happening with us or this place. And us here for the most, will continue try to do what we can from the inside..

Thank you for your time.