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My Experience as a Prisoner: Dear APWA, My experience as a prisoner in the state of Missouri has been nothing shy of humiliating and torturous. Upon my arrival to a permanent camp and within 6 months of my initial incarceration with the state of Missouri, I was tricked into "tying down" with another offender for safety reasons and raped as an ultimate consequence for not being in compliance with my attackers wishes. I was labeled a rat sometime after, once I got into an intensive therapeutic program and chose to do the right thing and report the incident through the Prison Rape Elimination Act. Around 2015 in the month of Feb. I began experiencing some skin irritations and odd occurrences from day to day. I began evaluating the situations and felt that my cell mates were placing bodily fluids on my property, clothing, bedding, in my soups, hygiene, and eating/drinking vessels. I ended up getting kicked out of I.T.C. for the allegations then had to seek protective custody at Jefferson City correctional center for being treated the same way in general population. In no time offenders in the P.C. unit began using the same tactics of torture toward me that was demonstrated in I.T.C. and G.P. at Jefferson City Correctional Center. I reported these issues as "bodily fluids" being placed on my property and not being able to wash it off my body so there were 2 separate investigations which concluded no bodily fluids present on my belongings. This resulted in me being written up for "making false statements" on the 2nd investigation. I realized whatever was going on the other offenders were winning against me so I changed my response. When I went back to P.C for the 3rd time at Jefferson City Correctional Center I ignored the torturous treatment I was sustaining. Ultimately my cellmate threw violent outbursts and complained about me being crazy causing more problems for me until the day that staff received information that "they better do something with me before something happened to me." At this point I was placed on administrative P.C. and transferred to South Central Correctional Center. Within one month of being at S.C.C.C. I started noticing the problems I had at Jefferson City followed me. I started paying closer attention and asking advice from other trusted offenders and this time I was able to conclude that it was floor wax being used against me. I reported this to staff and mental health only to find there were no testing methods for the chemical floor wax in D.O.C's Investigative Capacity. I filed and exhausted an I.R.R. Process numbered S.C.C.C. 17-1636. In which the end result was D.O.C. Central Offices blaming me for not providing enough evidence. I have networked with family, the K.C.I.W.O.C, Missouri C.U.R.E, Asst. Warden Conrad Sutton, and Prison Director for Missouri D.O.C. Anne Precythe, along with F.B.I. and Crime Lab in Webb City Missouri. This has all been in VAIN. I sough P.C. here at South Central Correctional Center to get away from the inhumane and potentially fatal treatment I was sustaining in the General Population, only to find it followed me into P.C. here!! Me cellies are exercising the same tactics, nonverbal criticism, and doing the exact same things I've dealt with for 3 1/2 years now. I'm fighting to have floor wax taken out of Missouri Prisons because we are killing each other with it. People often reference rupturing organs, mysterious deaths, heart attacks, breathing problems, chapped lips, dry mouth, scratchy throat and irritated nasal passages, coughs, and sticky feelings on your skin and everything it comes into contact with. No-one believes me because the truth is unheard of in prison and D.O.C. would rather have me medicated than to uncover a real potentially fatal threat that could cause a lawsuit to D.O.C. for failure to protect or fully investigate a serious risk of safety and security to their institutions. Anonymous
