YO ERASMUS. GLAD TO BE BACK. HOPE EVERYONE MADE PROGRESS THIS YEAR.
1.) What were you in for?
formal charges were harassment by communications and stalking
2.) How has that year shaped YOU?
we were supposed to go to the weight room 90 minutes once a week however this would frequently get canceled because inmate count would not clear in time (or at all…Google: “10/12/10” “escape” “Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility”) or something else would go wrong like inmates would be ordered locked in on a loud speaker because they had a stabbing or fight elsewhere or the dreaded “shake down” where they tore our cells up and strip searched us looking for drugs and weapons or the lieutenant in charge of your block or building would be lazy and not want to run weight room for your housing area’s day…so you had to pick your exercises…
so ERASMUS: what would you choose?
90 minutes of weights
3 times a month
40 sessions total
My workout ended up being split jerk then dead lift almost every time.
All the body weight stuff did much less (yes I would do 150 pull ups a day sometimes hanging off the top tier on the block when our cells were opened for recreation or 600 dips but this did less than the 40 sessions of heavy weight exposure).
3.) Can you describe the general atmosphere in prison?
It was like nazis and jews treatment from the guards. And the other inmates were extremely racist towards whites (I am mostly slavic). There were tons a drugs and weapons. Guards smuggle in what ever you want for ridiculous prices. Steroids are every where upstate my friends said.
4.) How do inmates interact, is there a lot of violence?
Weapons are made from 6 inch bolts pulled out of light and sharpened. Stabbings and fights go almost unpunished so they are part of your week.
I had to physically defend myself about 10 times and people tried to stab me 3 times and I got away twice only. But I was threatened and everyone was almost weekly.
But your day was much like basketball camp otherwise. One to 4 times a day if everything went well you would sleep, eat, come out and play basketball (we had a little court yard in every housing area).
So it was like basketball camp when you were little…except the other campers stab you.