Part of a letter from 12 March 2011
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Timmy took a Pepsi and reiterated that he was just asking questions. He wasn't calling me a liar or anything!
Ryan has told me his story, now idling out with one week remaining until he goes to a halfway house until April. He said that while I'm here for being silly, he's here for being stupid. He got into it with the administration. They wanted him to act like he was in prison so he treated them like he does the prison guards and they didn't like it. Since 1974 he's been out of prison only seventeen months. A girl, a car and some cash await him on the outside. he's twice been picked up for violating parole, having moved addresses without giving notice. he says he wants to keep his head down and his butt out of trouble this time. At the same time that he wants to be a citizen, he says he just doesn't think like one. Heroin, it keeps him down. Half in the drug program are teens to 20, others are in their 50s, like him.
I don't disagree when he reams on the police, what we call the guards -- "I hate anybody making a cent off us," he says -- sort of, minus the vulgarity, minus the meaning. Oh, and Timmy has "alot to learn, you"...er, me...the politics on the inside.
Chris
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