Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Jeremy Pompeneo, Arizona State Prison, May 18, 2011

May the most Holy and abundant blessings of Christ be upon you!  I pray this letter reaches you in a state of peace and trust in God’s mercy ad providence.  It was good to talk to you on Sunday.  Things have been a bit crazy here.  Remember how I told you that the Property Sergeant here is always disrespecting everyone’s stuff?  Well things came to a head and this whole cluster went off and all the C.O.’s were getting thrown on and there was a mini riot.  Don’t worry everything is calmed down and nobody got pepper sprayed.  They turned off our water, electricity, and lights and after going into negotiations we just got them turned on and a cease of fire is in effect. 

They ended up pulling us out and searching our houses and they pulled out my neighbor who is handicapped because he has horrible arthritis in his legs and threw him on the ground for no reason and stepped on his head.  Well I was drinking out of my water bottle at the time and I squirted water on all the cops and yelled at them for slamming an old handicapped man on his face.  I acted on instinct because what they did was dead wrong.  Don’t stress out but the Sergeant I squirted said he is writing me a ticket.  I didn’t  hurt anyone, all it was room temperature water.  I’ve done more damage to people in squirt gun fights when I was little.  I am waiting to see if they are even going to take the time to write the ticket.  So many cops were thrown on over the course of 2 days they might not even waste their time.  If they do give me a ticket it will probably be “assault on staff with weapon.”  They can take my visits for staff assaults and if that is what happens you have my apologies.  I really feel like I didn’t do anything seriously wrong.  Swearing  at people is in itself wrong but it was gut reaction to the excessive and unnecessary use of force.  Anyways, everything is back to normal in the cluster.  The Deputy Warden came through and we all spoke with him and all wrote out detailed complaint about Sgt. Sturm.  Hopefully she will be put in check.  Other than all the drama, things have resumed state of normalcy in this cluster […] Oh and I decided I am just gonna get my GED, not the High School thing.  I have been studying with my celly to take the mandatory literacy.  Love you!

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