Well it's been a while and I thought I would update you on what is going on with Lorne on the inside. June 29th, Lorne's person and cell were searched. During the course of these alleged "routine" searches, many items of Lorne were either damaged or removed from his possession. I can't go into alot of detail (and I am sorry for that) because there is the potential of litigation against the state of Nevada. What I can say is this...Lorne's banking information has still not been returned to him. The response letter that I got back from warden Smith stated that "he was concerned about Lorne having personal financial information around hundred of convicted felons." Ok...I'd accept that if it weren't for the fact that hundred of correctional officers and free staff bring their wallets to work everyday and they have the same exposure to inmates as Lorne does. It would also be believable but for the fact that it now appears that Lorne's information is being passed around to other correctional officers under the guise of "investigating" the legitimacy of the information. Apparently keeping that stuff in your wallet is creating a problem but allowing officers to hand it off to others isn't. Right. I got it now.
Lorne is also still waiting for the return of his religious materials that were removed from the box he was mailing out to me for safekeeping. No one can find it. It disappeared off the face of the earth. Being a Wiccan inside prison is not easy. We draw wisdom from everywhere and everyone we can. Our paths continually shift and grow as we shift and grow. Nine years of Lorne's Wiccan journey is missing and no one knows where it is.
He also appears to be on the receiving end of retaliatory actions from the officer who originally singled him out. Today, this same officer denied him access to pill call...this is where inmates are sent to the dispensary to pick up prescribed medications. In an ironic twist, it was the actions of this same officer that forced Lorne back to picking up his pills in the dispensary instead of keeping his prescription in his cell. So...Lorne has to go get his pills from the dispensary...but the officer won't let him get to the dispensary because his is too busy making life miserable for Lorne. So, as a result of today's actions, Lorne is filing yet another internal grievance. Given that last year, about this time, the ACLU,NDOC and the state of NV finally reached as agreement regarding the appropriateness of medical care inmates receive, one would think that correctional officers from the state of NV would be hypersensitive about how they deny/grant access to medications.
As for me, another round of letters to the warden at NSP, the NDOC Director, the NV ACLU and the NV Inspector Generals office...dang I'm tired!
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