Fredrick Morris on long term solitary and losing hope

 Fredrick Morris 579941 GBCI

1992,32/out date:4 7 33

Fredrick Morris today

Fredrick is a strong person, maintaining his sanity thru learning the law and litigating, the only real resources available to those in segregation . He is on administrative Confinement(AC), which is long term segregation, supposed to be nonpunitive . But nothing in the DOC is non punitive and conditions are harsh in the  extreme. He is on Ac because he assaulted a guard who was assaulting him, Fredrick says. He is from Chicago and He will not tolerate that abuse.

Recently he went on hunger strike and was going to stay on hunger strike till he got out of there. He was convinced, I think, by nursing staff, to abandon the effort and FFUP will be working with him on our upcoming suit aimed at getting a mental health treatment center up and running. 

My mail into the prison now takes three weeks due to the use of TextBehind, a third person mailing system . It was supposed to curtail drugs but instead makes communication between prisoner and their families nearly impossible. FFUP is mightily hindered. Fredrick will eventually get my blog invite and start contributing himself. I have a zoom visit with him soon. Drugs, in the meantime, have never been so plentiful in our prison system- we all know they come in thru the front door. Also reports are that self harm in these solitary units is at an all  time high. Our destress tools are not allowed where they are needed most and  there is NO treatment or training for the majority of the mentally ill in the WIdoc- they end of in solitary and are ejected at release with little or no support.

update 11 24

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Fredrick Morris 2018