This is the second day of our lockdown...
I awoke at about 6 o'clock this morning to find a Styrofoam food tray parked on the "feed-up" slot that’s in the middle of my cell door. There was a cup's worth of dry corn flakes in the main compartment, and a small apple and several sugar packets in the smaller compartments. An 8-ounce Styrofoam cup of lukewarm milk sat beside the tray. My breakfast.
When a prisoner suddenly finds a Styrofoam food tray placed in the food slot of his cell door, this is a sign that his door is not going to be opening. Thus, having to face the rest of the day in this confinement, I spent virtually all morning and afternoon reading and praying. I needed this rest anyhow.
I have also been listening to the local news station on the radio. And this was when I heard the report that my prison was under a lockdown, not only because of this state-wide "Code Orange" alert (as I mentioned in yesterday’s journal entry), but also because a corrections officer found a thick law book in the law library which had what looked like a bullet hole in it.
On the news reports, which were coming on every hour, it was mentioned that the New York State Police's crime lab confirmed that the hole in the book was made by a bullet. And if there was a bullet hole, then there had to be some kind of gun to fire the bullet.
Back in October of last year, this facility was closed for a lockdown and search because three bullets were found inside the hollow tubing of a mop handle. A thorough search was made for more bullets, and even for a gun. But after three days the prison was reopened and things went back to normal, until now.
D.B.
When a prisoner suddenly finds a Styrofoam food tray placed in the food slot of his cell door, this is a sign that his door is not going to be opening. Thus, having to face the rest of the day in this confinement, I spent virtually all morning and afternoon reading and praying. I needed this rest anyhow.
I have also been listening to the local news station on the radio. And this was when I heard the report that my prison was under a lockdown, not only because of this state-wide "Code Orange" alert (as I mentioned in yesterday’s journal entry), but also because a corrections officer found a thick law book in the law library which had what looked like a bullet hole in it.
On the news reports, which were coming on every hour, it was mentioned that the New York State Police's crime lab confirmed that the hole in the book was made by a bullet. And if there was a bullet hole, then there had to be some kind of gun to fire the bullet.
Back in October of last year, this facility was closed for a lockdown and search because three bullets were found inside the hollow tubing of a mop handle. A thorough search was made for more bullets, and even for a gun. But after three days the prison was reopened and things went back to normal, until now.
D.B.
