March 2, 2011
Dear Anne:
It felt like 7:30 when in fact it was 10pm lockdown and I had procrastinated from calling. The day went fast, Crow was right: "This is easy time." I sat with him and Buddy to watch Moose and Stan play stratego, since both had beaten me. Buddy and Moose both arrived with me yesterday to the Seattle Federal Transfer Center. Crow and Buddy were talking of Spokane and I asked if, like Buddy, Crow was also from there. No, they knew each other from the Spokane County jail. Each had for their public defender Katie. "If she at least said something [during the trial] I would have felt better," said Crow. He got caught again for re-entry from Canada and this is his first charge. "You're the first person I've met her with re-entry," I said. In fact, he was the first white person I had met, let alone conceived of, who had a re-entry charge. "I know...all the cops were like, 'what?' and the Federal Marshalls, too." Before he had gotten off with warnings but the judge at the trial seemed out to get him. "The recommended sentence [by the prosecuting attorney] was 0-6 months. The judge didn't care. He wanted to give me more until I got on my knees and said 'I've got a family and I'm self-employed. It will never happen again.'"
"After you left," said Buddy, "we got out for a total of three hours in three weeks" and those recreation breaks were fifteen minute bites. "They said the elevators were broken." "There's such a thing as stairs." "They said they couldn't cover them in case fights broke out." "Not that they could do anything to stop them anyway, remember that one?" "Yeah it was over and done with by the time they came," said Buddy. "I don't know how anyone could not learn their lesson. Jail sucks," said Crow.
Chris
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