Hello my readers. Thanks for stranding by me while I fought this cancer.
I face treatment number twelve this Wednesday. Six months of a chemo double whammy treatment, every other week, finally comes to an end.
Continue reading “Last Cancer Treatment”From 2008 until April of 2016, I received a medical No-Soy diet. The IDOC industry meat substitutes made me sick. I proved this up. In 2016, my diet was denied. Danville C.C.’s staff saw that the other prisoners wanted the same medical diet I was given. The Health Care Unit administrator in the Danville Correctional Center saw their requests as a problem. The answer was to stop MY diet, and possibly silence the other prisoners. I was told I could eat the soy-laden prison food.
Continue reading “Soy Diet Colon Cancer”September 15, 2021
A man thinks he will live forever.
When one is young he acts in foolish ways; he does things to tempt death because in youth he feels invincible.
Continue reading “The Grim Reaper”I just wanted to share this update. It is not good news.
Everything the Weston A. Price Foundation did to get the soy removed from the Illinois Department of Correction diet was set aside with a change of governor.
Continue reading “Illinois Prison Diet Update”Today I want to update another fight I now face.
Continue reading “Colon Cancer History”I have been reporting on the commissary situation in the Illinois prisons. For many months now, the prisons are serving all soy meals and unless we can shop at the commissary, we either starve or are poisoned.
However, we had hope when we learned that on February 1st (2021), the Warden was supposed fill all commissary staff positions and start running the store right. So, she retaliated by removing 114 items off the store.
Continue reading “More Retaliation”Starting January 1st, 2012, Governor Pritzker is cutting the IDOC prisoner dietary budget by 2% statewide. Another cut to our already depleted dietary budget.
Continue reading “Budget Cuts”Hello Citizens. You may be wondering what is happening in the prisons during the Covid-19 crisis. We are being punished with a lockdown, which means we are in our cells all the time; our meals are brought to us and we can no longer visit the commissary—we must put in an order and have it brought to us. And the amount of money that we can spend at the commissary has been restricted to fifty dollars per visit—that’s just one hundred dollars per month, whereas before our limit was one hundred fifty per shop or about three hundred per month.
Continue reading “Prison Lockdown”I am now at the Illinois River Correctional Center in Canton, Illinois. I was transferred here to settle a point on the First Amendment Right case, which I won. (See U.S. Central District case in Peoria Division. Harris-vs-Warden Calloway, et al., 2:17-cv-02075-MMM. This case is still active and in damages trial phase.)
Continue reading “Prison Food Update”Well, the year is about over. I have won some of my cases, but lost the big one on the soy diet. Well, kinda lost. The Seventh Circuit court of Appeal denied my case. They stated that the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) dietary staff would not be held accountable for the soy diet being detrimental to my health. So there will be no compensation for the life-long disease of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis that I developed from eating the soy diet. The pacemaker in my chest due to the thyroid disease will not see compensation.
Continue reading “Dangerous Condition of Confinement”
