John Berard

 7/29/25 to Peg Swan

Today during showers a corrections officer, in an attempt to subdue inmates who were fighting, did kick one of the inmates in the head repeatedly. This was witnessed by at least 10+ inmates. Further after the fight was stopped, one inmate in hand cuffs, one of the involved inmates was unsecured and allowed to attack the secured inmate. This happened with 6+ corrections officers present.

Secondly this is the 2nd week in a row that we have gone 5 or more days without a shower in very high heat and humidity. This leads to very unhygienic conditions. This also means our clothing,, underwear, shirts, pants and socks are very soiled with sweat and body oils as well as nasty smells as we exchange them at showers. This is very disgusting and tantamount to torture as well as being inhumane.

All inmates at WCI are being shown by staff, our front line example of how to act, is to treat people, especially those in our care as badly as we can.

How does any sane person in the community expect people releasing from this community creates environment to reintegrate in to society after any period of time surviving in an environment like I am currently in. All the current prison environment does is turn out hatred towards society and those that condone this type of treatment for people who have made mistakes and or are actually innocent of their crimes such as myself.

I ask staff regularly what they are teaching us and how this is making any of us better people for society reintegration. I never receive any type of answer from those tasked with having the answer by law. Yet we, being held at the many Wisconsin torture concentration camps are considered an offender and criminal.Shame on those that support the Wisconsin Mega Prison Money generation machine concentration camps. Hitler and those like him would be proud of the system in Wisconsin. Whats next, urbanization gas in the showers.

John Berard state slave #455358