Soy Diet Colon Cancer

Common Sense is Not So Common

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. 

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Update on East Moline Correctional Center

Happy Fourth of July to my readers! I hope you had a great day on this one of independence. I thought I would give you an update on my situation here.

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Good News and Bad News at East Moline

Let me give you the good news first:

The commissary issues are being addressed. Change was brought by posting the current practice and discriminatory policy in place on social media outlets. The limit of one-hundred dollars per shop on food items was raised to one hundred fifty. I believe this was an act to pacify me so we would quit raising this issue for public review.

So let us review here…

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The Law Does Not Apply to Prison Staff

People are sent to prison for breaking the law. But prisons have laws also, and the prison staff is obligated to follow those laws. For example, the law has clearly established that prisoners are to get a minimum of five hours of out-of-cell exercise per week, in order to keep their bodies healthy. Exercise is one of the rights given under the Eighth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. This is to prevent cruel and unusual punishment where the conditions of confinement cause the body to deteriorate. Continue reading “The Law Does Not Apply to Prison Staff”