Expired donut refund, your fired!

Expired Donut Refund, Your Fired! 8/1/2020 I am a prisoner at the Jameson Annex of the South Dakota State Penitentiary and I cannot believe I got fired for something as petty as asking for a refund on 3 packages of chocolate donuts that were sold to me that were one week past the sell by date. I have been working one day a week helping hand out commissary to prisoners for about a year. I enjoyed the job and the $10 to $12.50 every month helped me out. I never got into trouble or had any problems while working so I was suprised at being fired for asking for a refund. Earlier this week I did an informal resolution (grievance paperwork) to get a refund on the 3 packages of chocolate donuts that cost $3.57. I turned in the prison grievance and the next morning I was called to the unit coordinator's office. I went there where I was told by the unit coordinator: "I talked to commissary and they will refund the money from the expired donuts to your account." I said good. Then the unit coordinator also said that "They fired you, they don't want you to 1 over work at commissary for them anymore." When I stated this is clearly retaliation for asking for a refund for expired donuts that were stamped Sell By 07/17/2020, but I got on 7/26/2020 which tasted funny like wax and one package had mold in it, he said "You shouldn't have grievanced it." I am in prison so there is nothing I can do about this retaliation. Being fired for simply requesting a refund for expired donuts seems like a real petty reason to take my job that I have had for about a year. That is my story of losing my commissary job. So what do all your readers think? Do you think I should have lost my prison job earning 25 cents an hour for simply asking for a refund? Submitted by: Shane Bell P.O. Box 5911 Siuox Falls, SD 57117-5911 2