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by myboidaedae 515 days ago
I was incarcerated in San Francisco's 850 Bryant St county jail. This office is inhabited by the city's Sheriff department, district attorney, and superior court. A blatant concentration of power. The county court and DA belong in the civic center, NOT the jail. Here is a short list of grievances against the jail with regard to abuse of inmates and security guards:

#1: A single guard watches over 100 prisoners at a given time. The main cells are located on the "7th" floor, meaning backup is a 7 floor elevator ride away. It's suicide for that one guard, and they do it on purpose. The reality of "F pod" is that it's complete anarchy controlled by the fear of solitary confinement and an extended sentence. Thus, the inmates don't dissent and are completely obedient.

#2: The water is full of iron. Why does the water taste bloody? Becausw there's either rust, or it's intentionally poisoned with metal. Either way, it is completely unethical, and is also the reason why people constantly vomit and cough. They also feed us milk. 90% of the prisoners are Black, and what digestive disorder do we tend to have? Lactose intolerance. They feed us that shit on purpose, so we shit our guts out. It's vomit or diahrrea.

#3 There's a fake dead lynched body in the pen window 25. And yeah I said pen, there's no bars. Only pens and solitary confiment cells. Except the solitary confinement isn't solitary because you can scream your lungs out and the rest of the F pod will hear you. It's a demonstration. It's meant to make you afraid. Normal prisons don't intentionally induce fear and terror.

What can you do?

Please, if you live in San Francisco or the Bay Area in general, please visit 850 Bryant St, SF. Please take a look at the art piece they have outside, and wonder; just what does that symbolize? What do these rusty old iron links symbolize? The architecture is Brutalism. BRUTAL-ism, for a reason. It's an ugly building.

If you can walk in the front door, ask the sheriffs and whoever else works there what the banity of evil is. If they can't define it, they are the BANE OF EVIL.