Prison Pete
Sunday, June 13, 2004
Electronic entertainment in prison.
My usual Sunday schedule involves the 8:30 AM Protestant worship and 1:30 PM Catholic Mass. Since the Protestant is a non-liturgical service, you mix with Catholic, and bingo (no pun intended) it feels like Lutheran. Today the Catholic priest left before Mass and picked a couple of religious videos to show in lieu of Mass. I suggested the one we have on Martin Luther and he said only if we surround the TV with a bonfire first Ha ha.
We have four TV’s in our day area and two small (15 persons max) TV rooms. One TV room is only Spanish. Then usually the other TV room plus one day area TV is on BET. Two more day areas, one is always on sports so that leaves only one that I might want to watch.
Thanks to some "great" Senator, we are only allowed to see PG movies, no R’s. We get approximately two movies a week that they broadcast over the TV’s in each unit.
To make matters worse, we get locked in our rooms at 9:30 PM until approximately 10:15 PM every night so that sort of screws up any 8PM network movie. Well, who needs to watch all these commercials for all the things we can't have such as pizza, burgers, cars, etc.
One used to be able to possess all kinds of electronic instruments here but now the Feds are bare bones. I am allowed one AM/FM radio, one SAT-type calculator, and five books.
I have this hi-tech Sony Walkman that eats AAA batteries at the rate of two every 3-4 days. But it is mostly tuned to the West Virginia Public Radio station that simulcasts in seven or eight WV cities.
Besides the real news programs in the morning, I love listening to Pipe Dreams each Sunday evening for great pipe organ music. Every once in a while they feature "Theatre Organs".
We have four TV’s in our day area and two small (15 persons max) TV rooms. One TV room is only Spanish. Then usually the other TV room plus one day area TV is on BET. Two more day areas, one is always on sports so that leaves only one that I might want to watch.
Thanks to some "great" Senator, we are only allowed to see PG movies, no R’s. We get approximately two movies a week that they broadcast over the TV’s in each unit.
To make matters worse, we get locked in our rooms at 9:30 PM until approximately 10:15 PM every night so that sort of screws up any 8PM network movie. Well, who needs to watch all these commercials for all the things we can't have such as pizza, burgers, cars, etc.
One used to be able to possess all kinds of electronic instruments here but now the Feds are bare bones. I am allowed one AM/FM radio, one SAT-type calculator, and five books.
I have this hi-tech Sony Walkman that eats AAA batteries at the rate of two every 3-4 days. But it is mostly tuned to the West Virginia Public Radio station that simulcasts in seven or eight WV cities.
Besides the real news programs in the morning, I love listening to Pipe Dreams each Sunday evening for great pipe organ music. Every once in a while they feature "Theatre Organs".
Comments:
Maybe I missed something. Do you have to go to all these church services or is that just how you choose to pass the time? I was wondering the separation of church and state still applied to convicted felons.
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