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Prison Double Binded [?] Minorities and Racial Inequality By Victor Andrew Apodaca Sr. [ID] L.C.C.F 6900 West Millen Drive Hobbs, New Mexico 88244 Summary: This is a subject that I have expertise on. As I am both a Prisoner and minority I understand the problem and not only on the two subjects, but I once was a law-abiding citizen. I believe the following pages will bring light to the problem America is facing. We must ask ourselves why is the U.S. imprisonment rate extremely high and why is the majority Brown or Black prisoners depending on where at you are in the U.S. Borders. This disparities in the punishment rates of Blacks and Hispanics and current penal regime is somewhat to the racial caste system of some third world countries. Our neighborhoods that are in large cities are at this time breeding grounds for gang memberships, and our prison system are the colleges for the future mass murders of America. Ask yourself why? It is cause and effect – this is well been acknowledge as a socioeconomic system. It was not so in the 30s 40s and 50s but since then the American dream has been destroyed the Family has been destroyed there are more single mothers and broken homes in America at this time then in the history of any other world power in known history. Shouldn’t you want to know why? As a current prisoner, it’s been truely hard on the inside. I’ve watched movies and then there are sitcom's that show someone’s idea of prison life, they don’t scratch the surface of what life is like. I lost a friend in 2003 to 2004 to a staph infection, there was someone who used that needle that had it. That’s when I knew YAH was with me, let me explain. I had gotten caught with tattoo items and then I was placed “in the Hole” segregation for a month and my friend Dizzy went a few weeks after myself. I spent all 30 days in the Hole, and then went to BPod House 1 at G.C.C.F. and Dizzy followed later and he came to me one day and bothered me to do a shot with him but I do not do drugs, “in prison, anyway,” well he wore me down and I said “yes,” he got all happy and said I’ll be back later, so we can party. Well when you do that stuff you don’t remember anything or anyone, he went a did a Big shot with an old school and that was that. He had gotten really sick in the span of 3 days, he was in a wheelchair and we knew he was dying. It was then Lorizon Medical Health Care, and the whole pod started kicking the doors and beating the windows so they came and took him but it was to late he passed away, on the way to the Hospital in Albuquerque. The Old School got saved but I got so upset that one of my friends had gotten sick and had died. I also got sick as it was my appendix that went bad. The very same nurse said I had “gas” by the third day I couldn’t eat or drink or even walk so I told the officer in charge that I need to see a doctor or I was calling my family to get a lawyer. “That was a bluff my family don’t really care,” but it worked and the took me to medical and took blood and it was ready to burst…. Now comes the hard part they rushed me to the Hospital at Santa Rosa New Mexico and they said they couldn’t help me so they made plans at Albuquerque St. Joseph Hospital for emergency surgery but they couldn’t find an ambulance to come take me and they weren’t going to pay to fly me… Now it took them about 18 hours and finally the captain at night said take the rover van chain him up and put him in and take him to the Hospital. That was the longest 2½ hours of my life! Now they took me in and the doctor said we’ve had your operation and doctor here for 15 hours, so they put me on the roll away and I believe my appendix ruptured there or in the van nonetheless; I stop breathing and died all I can remember is what the Bible say's is outer “darkness" which means without YHWH presence. It was an awful place absent of light, absent of everything, woke up with a bag and hose sticking out of my side. I then recovered and fast forward in 2005 I paroled to my sisters Home in Colorado. She made me violate and turned me into the police and that’s how we find ourself here in prison. This is w[h]ere the prison system changed in that year they locked down the “clicksters” prison gangs The L.C’s and the S.&M. So the whole face of the system changed and not for the better but I came back in February of 2006 I was what you may call insane as I was placed in the mental health treatment center newly built. This was an illegal thing as I have got new felonies... I should of gotten to see the judge and assigned a public "pretender" defender but in the state of New Mexico the judicial system does what it wants not what the law or constitution says it should do. Well at this so-called Hospital it was so awful from when the criminally insane. Woke up it was non-stop bang on the cell doors people screaming and yelling, cutting, rubbing feces all over themselves and their cells there was black water running of the tier as the would break the sprinkler where broken it was pure Hell as when you acted up they would strip you naked and stick a needle in your butt and you’d go to sleep and wake up in the rubber room naked and afraid with only a small hole in the middle of the padded cell. You had to pee in the hole and use the other in the corner until you 72 hours were up, that’s how long you could stay. Well I finally starting taking my medications and got better. They moved me from crazy lockdown to just lockdown at that time I was facing 59½ years at 85%. So I attempted to commit suicide by tying my shoe strings together and running them through the vent holes and hung myself. “A warning to anyone who tries this” it failed because as soon as the strings tightened up around my neck my eyeballs try to shot out of my eye sockets and the pain around my neck! Luckily the storage [bin?] was still there so I stood on it and broke the shoe strings off. Well in that place is 24 hour lockdown and fifteen minutes rounds for the officers to make sure your not dead. When he came to my cell he called me over to the cell door and asked what’s that bright red ring around my neck was. “I didn’t know I received a rope burn;” so I said quickly "o" it was my necklace I was allergic to the fake chain "he said Sure it is." It’s a perfect red ring around my neck, so after this I asked YHWH and Yeshua' if your really real show me come to me and set me free from these demons in me. It matters not to me if you believe or don’t believe I believe! That’s what matters. So after that experience I was a 180° from what I was to what I will become…. It was spoken I would become a preacher and preach the Gospel to the world. So this is where my life changed I only got 28½ years on paper 15 at 85% and 2½ at 50% and a 50% coming with my 15 years at 85%. Now I went back at the end of 2006 to Clovis Curry County. I was there almost 3 years I escaped and hit America’s Most Wanted, so now it’s a big case because of the television coverage. So when I’m sentenced to 15 years I get 2 1/12 for the escape and as soon as I hit the line I was once again locked down from 2006 to 2011 and again in 2013 to 2015 but its been hell for me and others as 24 hour lockdown takes a toll on you; but that’s were my life could of been for vengeance against the public or I could of used it for my own good. So my personal choice was to educate myself with what was prophesied over me in 2002 by a priest from the ranks of inmates; he had spoken over me in a morning prayer session then my experience in 2006 February or March. So that is what I did when I was released from lockdown due to a lawsuit by one of the other convicts I had escaped with, from Curry County detention center in 2008. I was sent to Santa Rosa, which is the worst prison for violence in the state of New Mexico. Violence is hourly at that time. I had a personal relationship with YHWH, Yeshua; and the Holy Spirit and it was “Elohim” that taught me the Holy Scriptures and my personal truth for 6 years it was 15 to 18 hours of study of the scripture and over 100 ministries Bible Studies, I still do this everyday. Not so many hours but I work towards the want for me to help my fellow man but for me I have fallen! I’ve hurt 3 people over the breaks of escaping lockdown. This last person was caused by the unit manager at Santa Fe South Facility when I began my civil tort claim filed against Lorizon Medical Health Care this is the same company that misdiagnose my appendix in 2003 and killed my good friend. So I filed two separate lawsuits against P.N.M. and Lorizon and that’s when my worst problem imaginable happened. It was then I wrote to my judge what was going to happen and that was 1½ months of it happening like a domino effect it happened word for word. So what happened was I was moved out of a “pod” that I was safe at and placed in “pods” where there were child molesters, rapist, criminal informants. When I did nothing there was a problem between two other inmates. I was also removed into a gang pod and gang members. When nothing happened, the[y] moved someone who I knew from Santa Rosa. He had told on me and another inmate that we were running a store he lost me over $200.00 dollars as inmates get between $0.20 to $0.75 an hour 2 to 8 hours a day. That is a crazy amount of money so they moved him in and they asked me if I [k]new him. I explained yes he was a piece of shit and Rat. I thought that was that but he had drugs and started selling it now that the prison gangs are in lockdown facility it’s “ok” to be a Rat Rapist, child molester etc. So I was told you don’t have paperwork to show it so he can stay. Well when he wanted his money for his drugs that’s when they started to find out who he was. Well he was a child rapists murder from another state so one day they the so-called gang members knocked on my wall as I was in level 4 “I only got 4 hours outside my cell” he asked me if I could help him what it was the[y] knew I had a piece of steel but they wanted to get rid of me and him as someone had tried to put a “jacket” on me. But I’ve never had any dealings with the guards or police or D.A. or even my own lawyer so that’s why they didn’t do anything so he said it was him and my next door neighbor who was order to do the hit. So I knew I was next on the list. So that next morning we attacked him we were shot 8 times had a [grenade?] thrown at us and tear gas used I still wear the scar on the shot gun bean bag rounds on my back. Well they tried to shot me in the back of the head but I heard them cock the shot gun and for some reason I moved my head the round nicked my ear but got the Inmate, I was attacking in the middle of his nose well when all was said and done we were taken outside and the prison has a kind of gravel that has points on them and they kneeled us in the gravel, the pain that comes from that I couldn’t explain it if I wanted. So while they had me and the Inmate who asked me to help... the guard Romero was slapping him on the back saying we’ve been waiting two weeks; for you to get that piece of crap shot gun and mask in hand every time we let you out. He is a child rapist and killer. You did good. I looked at him and said what the fuck is going on here, the the guard that had me said what’s that smell; it smells like shit I looked backwards and down sure enough that Inmate had shit his uniform and I was covered with shit and blood, then to top it off they charged us for the gas, bullets and grenades, so it cost almost $100.00 dollar plus 10 years of Good Time. But at least now I’m safer I’ll be locked down again but the system has changed so I was having a blessing from “YHWH” when I was at the North facility maximum security there were two Godly men named David and Fred and they asked me if I wanted to go to college and seminary. I said yes and here I find myself at LEA County Correctional Facility it started off good but the system changed once again and the people in charge believe we are the scum of the earth. So they have taken education and now we have to pay for each course which is $158.00 dollars to $250.00 dollars they have taken our T.V. channels and they have taken our Good Time reward and Medical is worst than ever. So as of right now prison is a powder keg. In the 1980's may happen again it’s luck that “YHWH” has trained me I hold a Bachelor(s) in Theology “Magna Cum Laude” and I just received my Masters Degree in Nouthetic Counseling “Summa Cum Laude.” And certified in Nouthetic Counselor and I hope I’m accepted into the Doctoral program for my Associates of Arts from N.M.J.C. I need 14 credits but YHWH has given me these Gifts like the knowledge of the law I know I have three federal 1983 Civil Rights Court hearing and 1 tort claim with another pending. It is the glory of Yeshua that I’ve been able to fight off the lawyers and medical staff and administration attacks but I don’t have these lawsuits for myself but for the whole prison population win, lose or draw. There are over 300 pending lawsuits against the state of New Mexico corrections department and Geo Group and Lorizon medical and now hopefully against Centurion Health Care. If you the people could understand that the torture and abuse inmates like myself are put through it would outrage most humane beings. The people must try to interact and change the minds of the Government that we are not throw-aways but people. We only survive by [sheer?] will if you would help us we could be retrained and become taxpaying citizens but without help we have no choice but to survive at the cost of your home, your children, and your very life. I don’t speak for all prisoners but some want change and a better life….the American dream! This is not the end of the story I will be sending more Essays also. “In Conclusion; The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received then as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: They purchased them for us with toil and dangers and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.” By Samuel Adams I believe you America need to put pressure on the elected officials as we are someone’s son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, and aunties, grandson, etc. I hope and pray that you read these essays and that they touch your hearts enough to move you into action... Sincerely an old soldier Victor Andrew Apodaca Sr. Masters Nouthetic Counselor, Bachelor(s) in Theology Minister of the Word of Truth Shalom 🙂
