Prisoners Reach Out

Vances Hernandez Smith 61811 SCI https://ffupstuff.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/vances-hernandez-smith1.pdf birthdate 1955 ;62 Y.O.  County of residence before Inc/ Milwaukee Release date/length of time in prison Crime convicted of/date of crime convicted of/TIS or OL: 2051/ 28 years of current incarceration time/ 4 counts armed robbery, one count burglary Guilty as charged?Private lawyer/Public defender? Public defender/20 years each count-consecutive-total 90 years Add items: Viet Nam veteran /was help against me at sentencing hearing as judge said “you should know better then” why maximum sentence was given 2)Support from outside/Lost most family connections due to lack of transportation/DOC should reinstitute old policy of allowing banquets and picnics even in Max prison where needed most 3)support growing up: I’ve seen each generation become worse due to lack of role models due to mass incarceration. The blind now lead the blond. Solution is to conn...

Todd Hiivala 363687 GBCI , PO Box 19033 Green Bay, WI 54307    11 27 16 second offering on pdf : small Victories excellent series of letters and complaints that succeed in getting a destructive rule changed.  

Title You're Breaking Up Presented by: Todd E. Hiivala #363687 Green Bay Corr'l Institution P.O. Box 19033 Green Bay, WI 54307-9033 Subject            Complete refusal by GBCI staff--from maintenance, to supervisors, to the Warden himself--to repair or replace broken telephones inmates use to call and talk with family, friends and loved ones. Background: Between the end of 2015 and early 2016 GBCI installed phone jacks along the tiers, allowing inmates to request and place phone calls to family, friends and loved ones. Prior to this the only access to phones was at recreation, where there were, and still are, only a dozen phones that up to 100 or more inmates were/are expected to use within their one-hour recreation period. As one can imagine, between a lack of staff supervision, and no honor or courtesy among inmates monopolizing the phones, the whole process was/is chaotic and dysfunctional. The addition of phones on ...

“NEO SLAVERY” encroaches on WI DOC? TWO DISTURBING SYSTEM WIDE CHANGES   "NEO SLAVERY"  and "NEW Slavery" are terms I am beginning to read more and more in WI prisoner letters. Very important and disturbing stuff.   I will link this to some of the essays and here summarize. 1) The legislature enacted Act 355 last April , which directed the WI DOC to take 50% of incoming funds from prisoners jobs for “restitution”, the amount the court ordered the prisoner to pay to victims at their   sentencing. Previously to this, 25% was taken. The DOC however, is taking 50 % from all funds coming in including moneys from families and they are doing it retroactively- taking for years served before the Act was passed. This has a big impact on families and prisoners. They are already reeling under the weight of many fees and the wages made by the few who do work within the system are incredibly low   . Here is a chart from one of the writers of the articles b...