Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

So here it is just gone 9AM and I’m at the desk in my room writing to you.
I really feel the infection has gone from my chest but the cough and flem
continue to give me grief.
I will not go working when I’m coughing that much that I go dizzy and
can’t seem to catch my breath. Not good to drive the tractor either. I have
no idea how long this will hang around for and neither do the medics.
They know for sure I’m sick because I never go to the medics unless there
is some thing really wrong with me.
Every time I went to go see the medics the waiting room just kept filling up
with the hoards of liquid handcuff gang. I just couldn’t get in there for at
least half an hour.
But I waited and waited and finally got in there. They know I am sick so I
got a slip to rest in my cell today. This thing just seems to come and go at
will.I do feel a lot better but when the tickling of the lung happens I just
can’t stop coughing. And little babies get this and sometimes die from it. I
won’t die from it but I was pretty sick, my friend.
As I said to you on the phone, some of the new heads here shouldn’t even
be here. Mental health places are needed to help some of these poor
souls.
But as you know, all are pushed and pulled and all put in with each other.
Some even talk to themselves. I feel sorry for the staff but even more sad
for the people I see in this here situation.
The courts are backlogged so all is rushed and no checks are done. The
jails are full as you know and the sick and lost souls just keep coming.
And I still sit at the barrier table and see the tide just come and go. People
from yesteryear keep coming back. I know what the problem is.
The judges that sentence, give high tops like 5 years and then set a nonparole
period of 8 months, so when that person does his non-parole
period, he’s thrown out with 4 years 4 months on parole, and any little slip
and they are sent back. For a breach of parole usually it’s 3 to 6 months,
then they are let out on parole again. But if they do another offence, all
parole is withdrawn until court is finished with. So, say for stealing a
pushbike and parole is breached, the judge sentences the person to two
years jail on the theft on top of his 4 years 8 months parole, which gives
him 6 years 8 months to look at.
But then the judge will set a non-parole period, say of 2 years 8 months.
So when that is done the bloke is thrown out again, this time with 4 years
parole. And really what hope has he got?
My solution is, what one is sentenced to one does. So, say two years – do
two years, no home Detention. Anyone who does murder has to do the
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