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JB: How could you tell?


JW: A month ago, Stephanie was able to visit Gary in prison.  On August 11th, she saw him for the first time this year.  Not that it has been her choice not to see him, as it has been the abusive actions of BOPers that have wrongfully banned all of us from visiting Gary.  He was so excited when I told him she would be able to come with me.  We were all looking forward to being together, at least to the extent the BOP allows.


JB: How did it go?


JW: We got a late start on our four-state journey, drove through some rainy weather, then checked into a hotel just before midnight, only to be up before 6:00 a.m. to get to the prison to line up around 7:30.  After visitors were allowed to park and exit their cars, we were standing on the sidewalk at the distance away from the building required by the BOPers, about 40 yards away.  There were a lot of children up early and excited to be going to see their daddies.  Some just beamed great big smiles.  Several were dressed up, with one in particular wearing a pretty floor-length "princess" dress, coral with a light green sash and bow.  While waiting in line to be allowed into the building, I smiled, listening to the chatter of excited children, being so thankful that ours -- even though not "little" -- would at long last get to see Gary, and he would get to see his "little girl."


JB: Nice!


JW: Something else caught my attention:  atop the flagpole, a new American flag waved in the breeze.  The first visit after you and I had discussed the worn and tattered flag , SOMEONE must have been reading OpEdNews and had the flag replaced!  Kind of Big Brotherish, but at least the flag was replaced.


JB: Yes, an encouraging sign, whatever the motivation. Did this spill over in the way the BOPers treated all of you?


JW: Not in a positive way, unfortunately.  As a prison employee came out of the building, some of the children began talking about being yelled at by prison guards, with one little boy sharing that on a previous visit, he had stepped on the grass, only to hear a loud voice yell, "HEY!!! GET OFF THE GRASS!"  The mothers were talking among themselves about how they and their children have been treated, as a little girl took the opportunity to dare the boy to step on the grass.  Not surprisingly, he did, only to have his mother jerk him back onto the sidewalk and scold him.  Right on cue, another BOPer exited the building and walked straight through the grass to the employee parking lot.  


Seeing the prison employee walking on the grass, the scolded little boy said to his mother, "Hey! How come HE's walking on the grass?"  "Because he works here," the mother responded, as I wondered whether she recognized the hypocrisy her son saw, the do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do mentality of prison employees, with their arrogant attitude that the rules apply only to "others" -- prisoners and prisoners' families -- NOT to them.  "That's not fair--  Out of the mouths of babes.  By then, I had seen three prison employees walk across the grass.


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JB: Sigh.

JW: Around 8:00, a prison employee opened the door and yelled for the visitors to approach the building.  As we entered, he gave each adult a numbered visitor form to complete.  Stephanie's form was number 6; mine was number 7. The forms were then collected in numbered order, along with photo IDs.  A visitor was ordered to remove her blazer and return it to her car, even though there is no rule against blazers or jackets.  The prison employees talked among themselves at the desk until around 8:30, when they began yelling last names, first three names, then two.

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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