Sunday, September 29, 2024

Bernard Kretlow tells of programming problems and efforfs to keep low bunk

Bernard Kretlow 340419 OSCI

Bernard introduces himself and tells his story

 Peggy, I want to start out by telling some things about myself:

1. my full name is Bernard Edward Kretlow

2.  I'm at Oshkosh Correctional Institution

3.  I'm 44 years old, will be 45 on February 24th.

4. I have one brother who is 40 will be 41 on Wednesday August 28th.

5. I have no sisters

6. I'm in prison for a second degree sexual assault of a child. I got 10 years with 9 months hoc time if I mess up on probation. I was given two ATRs  messed. Got revoked cases open due to additional information. I came out charged with first degree sexual assault of a child and got 25 years concurrent to the 10 so I'm doing 45 years my PMR is 5-7-2026 my maximum discharge is 423 37 that is when I'm off paper

7. I grew up in Milwaukee in a home where there was fights, arguments, drinking, abuse of all types and Mom and her several boyfriends.

8. My mom played both the mother and father for me and my brother till we had to Be taken out of the home by child protective services.

9 I'm single

10. now as to placements I've been since 1990:2 foster homes= a child /8treatment centers= juvenile/ several adult jails, prisons=adult

11. I've taken many non-essential and essential group programs, classes.

  Names 12, see original)

    one group of note- spiritual program which is a wonderful program  It's an incentive based mental health program for inmates with mental health issues to give them tools to help them from continuing to misbehave, get tickets leading to segregation placements, possibly ending up back in maximum Security setting Within the DOC they use phases 345 to earn more freedom as you progress and you get points for participating in groups. 

  SRTU  stands for secure residential treatment unit. Then they have a section here for mental health segregation area called  DU which stands for diversion unit  It's for inmates with mental health issues to make their disciplinary separation time more doable.

18. SOTis a sexual offender treatment program adaptive which is a sex offender treatment program for inmates who have a learning disability/ mental health issues and is less of a difficulty to get through and better broken down. details Hands-On less work to do more discussion time and visualizations. 

  Any information you want about sptu and s o t Adaptive group ,you can contact our Warden and/ or Dr J a n n o n it had a PSU Department.


 Well in closing I'll say take care thank you for your assistance with much needed supplies


 and add to my blog:

 I was given a 30-day restriction by medical not to work and my program sergeant Which is? removed me from my job giving it to someone else which I feel is wrong cuz I did nothing to lose my position so I should have not had the job taken. They could have had someone fill in for me while I was on medical restriction then I'd still have my job and wouldn't have to worry about getting a new different one.

 Complaint: on 8924 at 10:25pm- I went to the office desk to let officer Cook  know that I feel hot sweaty clammy as my pressure is high and he told me to write a slip so I can be seen on sick call tomorrow. I did and I gave it to him via protocol. I should have been evaluated tonight feeling this, cuz tomorrow I’ll feel better blood pressure will be normal and I won't feel sweaty clammy anymore so I won't be seen This is unprofessional. 


in original: 


Bernard's first issue is to preserve his low bunk restriction

. Here we present some of the ins and outs of the  SNC or "Special Needs Committee" which has the authority to override the outside Doctor's recommendations and causes much undue suffering and pain. 

transcription of Bernards april statement on low bunk:

Bernard  Kretlow  340419 Osci  4/22/24

 reasons I should have an indefinite lower bunk restriction

1. I am at risk of falling out of bed as a result of tossing and turning at night while asleep which occurs nightly

2. I'm at risk of falling as a result of my lower back locking up on me which happened on 418/24 or41924.

3.I am at risk of falling out of bed as a result of my nightmares which I have.

4 I am at risk of injury to my left ankle having to go on the top on cuz it's injured already. 

5.Nowhere to put sleep apnea machine or cause if I put it on the TV stand at foot of bed it's at risk of falling cuz I toss and turn and it can't sit on the floor cuz the hose won't reach to the top bunk ,not long enough would need two hoses.

6.At risk of seizure if I've become stressed which happens quite a bit with my cell Vance Adduci and


Bernard's July 20th 2024 statement stating reasons why he needs a low bunk (original)   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t_yWwW-M4aEb6Cfu85cl1DQsH1oVmURm/view?usp=sharing

My letter to the powers:

OSCI Warden Cheryl Eplett

HSU Director

Dr. Murphy

1730 W. Snell Road ​

PO Box 3530

Oshkosh, WI 54903-3530 

RE: Low bunk for Bernard Kretlow  340419

April 22, 2024

 

Hello,

I am concerned for the well being of Bernard Kretlow, He has been recently denied the low bunk designation because he has not had seizures in a few months. I ask that you applaud yourselves and him for this improvement in his health and keep the low bunk restriction . Bernard is afraid of falling from the top bunk. Such a fall would have serious consequences. He has fallen from the low bunk and this fear of falling increases his risk for seizures and falling.

 

The DAI 500.30.07 Special Needs rule on Lower bunk restriction states:

“A person should be restricted from the upper bunk if they have a medical condition that represents a higher than average likely hood of severe injury if that person fell from the upper bunk or if there is an uncontrolled medical condition that places them at increased risk of a sudden unpredictable loss of mobility, balance or cognition.”

 

Bernard Kretlow certainly qualifies here- Please do not jeopardize your success with helping him control his seizures- Allow Bernard Kretlow to  keep his low bunk restriction.

 

Thankyou for your attention:

Peg Swan

Founder and Co- Director  Forum for Understanding Prisons ( FFUP)

608-536-3993/pgswan3@aol.com

29631 Wild Rose Drive, Blue River, WI 53518

 

Cc.Melissa Roberts

Assistant Deputy Secretary WIDOC

3099 E Washington Ave

Madison, WI 53704


Bernard's second post lists other concerns, including program group problems , lack of rec (recreation) due to staff shortages and no vending machines in visiting rooms. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OeKsrelZ-mQCjH28cTrz0osYSrssLOcZ/view?usp=sharing

THis is Bernard's latest update:

Bernard Kretlow  health 924

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zsQYhEt7sMINbm8EOQPACkPXO2ekzHcU/view?usp=sharing


Bernard Kretlow 724 health

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t_yWwW-M4aEb6Cfu85cl1DQsH1oVmURm/view?usp=sharing


Bernard Kretlow  health 81424

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1syPqgpNgywLmjGQvfSykDdweP9lHridN/view?usp=sharing

 

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Michael Leppert , litigator, was at WCI for many years and wants to help.

 Michael Leppert 444868 OSCI

Michael Leppert
BD 1963, 61 yo

Michael was at WCI from 2008 til 2024 and saw the deterioration. Here is his 
first letter. He will work with us.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Oua1K3fZg9OkFK-kxT7i9efZEIDu1XBK/view?usp=sharing


Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Fabian Zepeda 231081 WRC poems here, more coming

Fabien Zepeda



Fabien Zepeda 231081 
Wisconsin Resource Center (WRC)


  every time

 i

 see the light i

 turn around

&

 see the darkness about

 to engulf

 me again, where i  am

 the true

 Me

 the liar, The Deceiver

 the sexual deviant,& the

 Destroyer of Souls, where

i

 choose to be hateful &

 Vindictive

 only enjoying the

 World

 When  every being on

  earth

 feels just like me

  why

 do you let me dwell

 so freely

Z

2)

To whom it may concern

 my name is Human

Being (B.I.C.A.)A worthless

 useless, lowlife, crackhead

& and list goes on and on.

 it's gotten to a

 point it's not even insult-

 ing to be called a loser,

 to be truthful i dwell in the

 misery Ii created.

i  know what you the

 reader of these words is th-

Inking  what a warped & twi’

sted  mind he has.

I  beg you to under-

 stand that I'm not making

 excuses for who i Am,

 I'm just trying to  get 

Understanding  to  why

 I am

Z

 

 

 

 

Alphonso Lamont Willis has severe fish allergies, WIDOC has no solution

 Alphonso Lamont Willis

Alphonso Lamont Willis  360596 NLCI
BD 1983, 41YO

360596 NLCI 

at issue - severe fish allergies that send him to hospital. He has severe reactions even when around fish. the one clue is that he is fine in NLCI seg, where there is plenty of ventilation- other places in the institution are closed. Requests to be moved etc are not honored. Everyone cooks fish in microwave. He request and denies full medical workup.

Alphonso's story:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VeKPpa1HE76DaNNMsDMzRc38wESPmtxH/view?usp=sharing


WIDOC documents

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p3BDTOApDsUPxVN6nXcpZ6DhQaeaYr4h/view?usp=sharing

Lene Cespedes -Torres juvenile came with Mariel Boatlift, still here looking for some justice

 This post is  under constructions-below is link to Lene's blog which also needs work. All will be done soon:  https://lenescespedes.blogspot.com/

Lene Cespedes -Torres 122605
Kettle Moraine Correction Institution
PO Box 189
Phoenix, MD 21131




Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Todd Thorud, astute observer, now in need of "Sedation Dentistry"

Todd thorud, astute observer, victim of assault
 and prime plaintiff in suit to force 
   DOC to build mental health treatment facility
BD 1976, 48YO
in since 1998-old law prisoner

Most urgent is his health care need- he needs dental surgery and needs to be sedated to have it and is denied: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K4-ZR_LJxsFPPxsO52vSmkXtq0I7Xfl1/view?usp=sharing



what is here so far:
1)two frauds/scams described
vendor scam
Keefe Commissary Network

2)how the DOC health care does not work
3) slave labor

  the vendors- SCAM ONE 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16PJ17z Carr and allR0QMf70VppG1rBc2sfXfqvl_RW/view?usp=sharing

transcribed below:

Todd Thorud  206723  osci

 DOC- v e n d o r s ( criminally predatory)

  Our incarcerated inmate population must use only DOC contracted/ approved vendors to purchase canteen, hobby, property, etc. items!  Inmate population cannot use an outside vendor! In theory we can only use an outside vendor if we cannot find something better from our DOC's vendors  but in practice such a purchase is never approved.

   The Contracting system for all DLC inmates is extremely corrupt and predatory towards all inmates and anyone else who tries to help our inmate population.

    The Wisconsin DOC Administration uses NASPD( the National Association of State procurement officials) to select and contact all of its vendors. DOC does this in secret and behind Closed doors. 

    We need this practice to be brought into the light and under public scrutiny. This process should be monitored by the Wisconsin Attorney General's office.  The contacts should be open to our inmate population also. We are intended customers and we should have a say in what we are being sold and for how much. Also,every inmate should have the opportunity to submit questions concerns and so on to any potential vendor.

    The DOC Administration and its co-conspirator NASPO are fully legally and financially liable for the actions of all contracted vendors that are allowed to operate within the DOC system. The DOC allows these contracted vendors to behave in criminally- predatory in egregiously contemptible ways. They continue to increase the prices of all goods and merchandise and so on that is sold to our inmate population and everyone else who wants to help the inmate population by sending items from the DOC vendors.

     This is outrageously criminal extortion and fraud etc.It also is ethically and morally repugnant to say the least.

    The DOC should have to allow loved ones, family, friends and so on and others who wish to send us items from the doc approved vendor to pay the price every other citizen pays.

This outrageous fraud by the doc has cost ordinary innocent taxpayer citizens of Wisconsin millions of. Dollars.

     By charging our inmate population so much for everything we need, DOC and its corrupt predatory vendors ensure that our inmate population has to ask someone outside  the DOC system to buy items we can't afford ourselves. The Wisconsin Administration knows fully well that our intimate population can't afford most items in our vendor catalogs..This is deliberate extortion and fraud by the doc and its vendors.

     This causes significant hardship on our inmate population and others who try to help us survive this increasingly predatory and abusive incarceration.

    Someone needs to stop this. 

Sincerely concerned Todd l Thorud  226723


   SCAM TWO

Todd  t h o r u d 226723  osci

 The  k e e f e  commissary Network (KCN) 

   Sunday August 11th 2024

     The Keefe commissary Network(KCN) is the devil! it is evil in all its forms, such as its subsidiaries Access Corrections, IC Solutions,etc.

      KCN and its subsidiaries have engaged in campaign/ criminal Enterprises and etc to criminally, predatorily prey etc upon the inmate population of Wisconsin Department of Corrections, city and county jails etc.

.     KCN has done this in 39 other states etc with the full complicity/ authority of the correction system in 40 + States, cities, counties, and other localities throughout the US. These states,, cities, counties and other localities have given KCN their complete permission to act, and behave as they wish with complete autonomy and impunity.

       As long as each state, city, County locality, gets its commissions and sales taxes and etc,they don't care what happens to the inmate population, our loved ones, friends , etc or any person who wants to help our inmate population Survive the increasingly difficult incarceration Within the correction system Nationwide.

       KCN and other similar- criminally predatory companies such as Union Supply  Group,  have preyed upon our inmate population and others who are trying to help us for Decades. (30plus years). They have violated our constitutional rights,,Our civil rights and our human rights. They've knowingly and purposefully extorted and defrauded our inmate population, costing us billions of dollars and  and have caused our population to suffer in pain and misery for decades. 

      While  we have suffered these decades, we have asked for help from the DOC, the state government, the state court system, the State Legislative  officials, the State Attorney General office etc, We have been dismissed, ignored, threatened, and punitively- harassed, antagonized intimidated and bullied to dissuade and deter us from challenging the DOC/ States failure protect us from any abuse or being taken advantage of by anyone, including the DOC and its employees, the state and its employees.etc.

    When the Wisconsin -DOC Administration and the state of Wisconsin  decided to switch to a different tablet, they knew and were fully aware that our population would be losing all access and use of our ATG tablets and our media content. They knew that we would  lose our significant investment in the tablet and media content that we owned. KCN had no intention of refunding our inmate population for the cost of the tablet or the media content that we owned 

     Yet the DOC Administration kept lying to our inmate population, telling us that they were still working on the issue. They also allowed ATG(access-keefe) to keep selling the inmate population tablets and more media content  even though they had no intention of refunding or reimbursing our inmate population for either the cost of our tablets or the media content that we purchased. They continue to do so to this date. This is egregious: fraud and extortion.

    We  cannot use other vendors, we are forced to use these criminally predatory vendors no matter how they. treat us. Even though there is plenty of proof showing that Keiffe, KCN and Union Supply are abusing the inmate population throughout the US, the Wisconsin DOC Administration still chose to award KCN yet another contract.

      This so they can continue to exert and defraud our inmate population and our loved ones. We need help to stop this cycle of abuse and mistreatment; still forcing us to buy criminally overpriced Goods and merchandise; for decades more to come!

 

 sincerely disgusted and frustrated, Todd l T h o r u d  226723

 

2)not yet transcribed but originals linked here:  



                                                   

Sunday, September 8, 2024

Lonny Mayer has big case, looking for lawyer

Lonny Mayer kept from contact the outside for 408 days;  
                                                              looking for attorney for big case

was allowed no communication with outside for 408 days while case going on.


 Lonny A Mayer   167104 CCI

        My case involves the prison violating my 6 th amendment right to an Attorney.  Greenbay kept me from my attorney for 408 days while I was fighting criminal charges. They denied me all telephone use to communicate with him. All my mail was intercepted and turned over to the District Attorney, and they even told my Attorney that they would not allow him to speak to me.           

        And he will testify to such!! Greenbay Correctional and the Milwaukee county jail, denied me all telephone use from Feb 2020 through July 2023. Absolutely no outside communication what so ever, no support network, no psychological resources, no trends and family. I was denied any ability to get my affairs in order upon my arrest nor make arrangements to hire counsel, contact the media or newspaper . Denied any ability to gather evidence, contact witnesses, make open records requests etc, etc, etc. And that directly denied me my 1st amendment rights of Freedom of Speech, Free Assemble and the right to protest the charges against me in any way shape or form. 

      My lawsuit has already passed the Screening stage and currently on Discovery (interrogatories, requests for documents and admissions etc). There are many and I have case law supporting how prisons and jails CANNOT deny inmate these rights because they are FUNDAMENTAL. Meaning, that the accused must be afforded them no matter the circumstances..

      I'm looking for someone on the streets that is already in the field of law, that will do the leg-work that I can't do because I'm incarcerated but a paralegal will do if need be . The 7th Cir. Court of appeals ruled that an inmate whom is denied counsel for 4 days, is entitled to damages. My case lasted 408 days, meaning I have a winner  but the person helping me must be thorough and aggressive, someone whom will put their heart into it.

Lonny Mayer 167104

Columbia Correctional Institution

PO Box 189

Phoenix, Md 21131


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Sunday, September 1, 2024

Kuan Barnett enduring LGBT harrassment

 

Kuan Barnett

Kuan Barnett 650427 CCI

 his story part one in/update coming, now out of segregation

 original:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tejw0Di_Q_3cBVM1qKd6FQaRLtoWOZZS/view?usp=sharing

transcription 8 2824

    My name is Kuan Barnett but I prefer to be called “ k i a r a h” instead. I am a trans -woman, incarcerated at Columbia Correctional Institution serving 3 years while fighting other cases as well. We spoke on the phone a couple of days ago and you asked me to send you my story and  here is a brief of it below.

   My preferred name is Kiara n Barnett and I'm 24 years old, from Milwaukee Wisconsin, with no family or friends to support me through these tormenting times that I am  facing. ..My mother passed away when I was 16 years old and my father is considered a no-show. so my guidance has been very faulty. lately, I've been feeling alone and worried for my safety especially after being sexually assaulted by three different inmates while prison staff placed the blame on me because of my preferred gender and punish me by telling me that as long as I keep refusing to leave segregation I will not be eligible for my sex reassignment surgery.,.

 

   Please provide me with any legal material such as books, civil or Criminal, newspapers, lgbtq information as well as any other information to further my practice of the law.

 Sincerely,

 MS Kiarah  Barnett

 

 Information:

 Kuan Barnett,#650427

 

 regular mail:

 Columbia Correctional Institution

 PO Box 189

 Phoenix, Maryland  21131

 

 to send books:

 Columbia Correctional Institution

 PO Box 900

 Portage, Wisconsin  53901

 

 

Jermel Robertson sues on illegal sentencing

Jermel Robertson wishes to expose corruption in his case
Jermel Robertson 373072 MSDF

transpositions and summary coming soon

Jermel Robertson case 924

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15viw4q4miTvaBAnwr9f8xjOBc95N7B_s/view?usp=sharing

Jermel robertson letter 924

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10SQ-Rj2TXexxitXvGVIJ9_WEIGcfjvMR/view?usp=sharing

 


 

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