August 17. 2024, Illinois–Anthony Gay, an associate of A Few Good Women, transcends his life and leaves a legacy of imprisonment, repression, racism, and black politics; he also leaves in his legacy a fight in victory against the American Justice System and its tactics to punish inmates.
His story is why we need to address civic and social history nationally and internationally for the sake of our rights not only as humans but as a Republic being ran as a democracy where we have hidden agendas, false promises, information, and power at play. We should be putting more focus into the betterment of our environment not just socially but nature itself.
This post is one of honor and duty as a Constitutional Republic’s active citizen to make sure the work continues to pay attention to the treatment of prisoners whether criminal or political because they are humans, living beings and they deserve to be protected with the exception of those who commit crimes or deeds that are unjust according to supreme law and power. It’s time to stand up for what is not just right but just in the name of truth, peace, freedom, justice, and love ❤️.
Former Prisoner Account
The hole” or solitary confinement for me was a horrible experience. First it’s a shock to the system because you are placed in a cell with nothing in it and the door is locked behind you. You kind of feel like an animal that’s just been caught in a trap! There is an immediate shock to your system that ignites your fight or flight adrenaline response.
That’s quickly replaced by suicidal thoughts because you understand there is nowhere to run and no one to fight. So you just want to alleviate the thoughts of going through the experience all together because you know it’s going to be a very difficult and daunting experience.
The days are slow and excruciatingly boring. Finding activities to occupy your mind is non existent outside of the Bible that may already be in there and the few reading materials you are allotted from your personal property. That material is typically utilized very quickly to get through your 24 hour day.
Obviously your circadian rhythm is off because access to light/sunlight from windows are no longer available to you. So your sleep, mood, appetite, and overall health is grossly affected. You lose the sense of time and you will constantly ask the guards “What time is it?”
You’re only allowed 1 shower per week and it’s usually the highlight of your day. The feeding schedule or cycle becomes a rhythm you have to use to occupy your days as well. The access to food is probably the most disheartening aspects of solitary confinement. You are given 3 meals a day of course but the time between the issuance of these meals is typically brutal. The mental brutality of not having anything to eat while being totally dependent on someone else to bring it to you is tormenting. The meals are portioned typically for your survival and not your satiation(to get you full). Then the fact is that most of the food is typically something you don’t like or not meant to be palatable.
Then the absolute worst part of solitary confinement is a lot of times they stick another human in there with you and you two are forced to get along inside of what amounts to be a closet for the duration of your time. All of his traumas, idiosyncrasies, mental illnesses and whims you are subjected to and forced to deal with and manage for your survival and his.
All of this in the name of “punishment”. This punishment is grossly inhumane, mental torture, and cruel in every aspect of the word. Those that experience this torture I’m sure like myself are never the same and the effects of this punishment overwhelmingly outweigh the error or rule violation you are being reprimanded for in the first place.Micheal Davis-Crayton
As A Few Good Woman associate myself, I am in support of its mission to not only connect but support our community in its true struggles of identity, theft, poverty, incorrect behavior, abuse, racism, food and other issues that we aren’t just facing as so called blacks but as humanity. As a collective we must take action against the decline and colonialism that has plagued our quality of life. It has now been proven it still lives and continues to thrive on the exploitation of humanity.
Please support our dearly beloved brother in continuing the fight to get his billed passed to help our men and women behind bars receive justice. Click here for more.
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