Strip search, just another day in the Big House. A fellow inmate just popped in to tell me that we are probably going to be locked down. They are strip-searching everyone as they exit the Rec yard. This wonderful procedure is done when some lucky inmate gets the Shinola kicked out of him and hopefully his attacker would have some sort of telltale scratches or other give-away marks. Then they will clear out all the other areas and lock us in our rooms while they individually question every one of the 1,600 plus inmates.

This wonderful procedure happened just two weeks ago. We ended up locked in until around 2:00 PM Monday. Although I never got questioned, my buddy Dave was awakened at 3:00 AM and asked if he knew anything about what happened. Since he was not even in the Rec yard that night, he asked the guy to tell him what happened. Well, just another day in the Big House.

I am listening to one of the best hours and a half on NPR - Pipe Dreams. It is all pipe organ music. Sometimes they do a whole show on just the theatre pipe organ.

Let me go and check what is up outside my nice quiet office.

Well, they are still exiting the Rec yard one at a time. This alone can take a while since we are talking several hundred people at Rec.

Since this is an unusual occurrence, I will not be able to leave Education until they figure out what they are doing with the Rec yard.

Normally (although that in itself is a tough word to use around here) I would have been heading back on the 7:30 PM move. The library is open from 5:30 to 8:30 on Sunday evenings. I was toying with just staying in the unit after that delicious dinner, but I took my dump while my roomie was out and then arrived here at Education at 6:30.  ¶ 12:09 AM