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Friday, January 28, 2005
  "Live" From NY State Prison.
Well, I have been inspected, questioned, swabbed, injected, and siphoned. I spent the first three hours in a cell by myself. It really was a bare cell, just a room with no toilet and no water. They eventually pulled me out and had me sit on a bench in the center of the room.

This "special treatment" went on as I was told to strip down to my underwear and forced to throw out my clothes, even though supposedly if you had money, you could have sent them home. I was put in a COLD shower and then got the bald hair cut.

The damn shame is that my size 11 EEEEEE boots were also thrown out. They were only a few months old and cost about $200. As it turns out, they did not have any shoes to fit me, so I am wearing size 14 low-cut "Keds" lace up sneakers.

I am feeling a little better writing this to you now. I still have the damned clogged sinuses and my sleep cycles are screwed up. I have a headache that may be partially from the clogged sinuses, plus partly from lunch.

Lunch was egg salad and packaged macaroni salad, and I think it had MSG in it. MSG is the only thing that I found brings on wicked headaches when I eat processed foods. My oatmeal and mackerel diet left little room for such stuff and one wonders if you build up resistance to it or what?

But hey, I am also experiencing major league stress and loneliness, so do you think that might have an effect on me too?

They will provide me with free paper and five stamps a week for the first thirty days here. But they are only giving out three sheets of this paper at a time and I can only get it twice a day. I will try to get a few extra sheets tonight so I can write more.

I should have your address burned into my brain, but for some reason your zip code escapes me! I had your address written on the inside of my brown folder that was holding my legal work, but this time the CO at the county jail tossed it out and put my seventy-five pages of case research in a paper bag. Another perfectly good plan shot to hell!

My letters to you do go out from my cell sealed, but I am not sure about incoming mail. I know they open them, but they do not specify if that is just to check for contraband or if they also read incoming mail.

One point for all blog postings in the short term: I have decided to not rant about any staff. I would like to commend those staff that offer the cup of kindness, but as far as any negatives, I will confine those reports to my letters to you for historical purposes only.
 
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