Monday, September 5, 2011

Another day...another ...?

I got a phone call last night from Lorne, of course, it is always nice to hear his voice. So a bit of an update for you.  At this point all of Lorne's grievances have been denied and he is appealing the denials.  I had to laugh when he was telling what was written on the denials...one of the denials has a statement from a CO that when they were doing the first alleged random cell search, the at no time did he damage any of Lorne's belongings.  I have a bit of information to you NDOC...if there are only two officers in a cell during a search and items become damaged...guess what...A NDOC OFFICER DAMAGED HIS STUFF!!  Not quite sure what is so hard about that bit of detective work but it apparently escapes the people that review the grievances.  I also received a letter from the NSP warden in response to my letter.  I write this guy a 3 page letter with a list of issues.  His response back to me was a single paragraph that basically said "he was pleased to hear that Inmate Richardson was using the grievance process".  Apparently he feels that the grievance process will exonerate the CO's of wrong doing in all the issues we have raised.  Perhaps someone should inform him that the only reason inmates file grievances is to preserve their right to sue at a later date! Silly warden...inmates don't file grievances because they expect the wrongs to be addressed...they know at some point they are going to have to sue so they want to preserve their ability to do so by using the NDOC grievance process first. 
NDOC will continue to violate their own policies and procedures and not even the Inspector General will hold these clowns accountable.  I get the fact that these guys are convicted criminals, but someone should tell NDOC that that does not make them liars.