Three Weeks in the Hole/Three Years in Hell

Micah has been in the hole for three weeks now. We were planning a trip to visit him, but it looks like we will be visiting him through glass once again. What a bummer!

He was taken into protective detention three weeks ago. It would not be so bad if it weren't over 90 degrees in his cell. The walls are so hot he has to sleep on the concrete floor. He is allowed out once a week to call us for 15 minutes and one half hour a day to walk around the cube.

I don't know how long he will be here, could be the next 15 months. In that case he could sure use lots of uplifting letters of encouragement and love. He is more discouraged than I have ever seen him in the last three years.

Three years ago today Micah was incarcerated. I know he is counting the days, hours and minutes until this hell is over for him.

We were on the phone all day with Warden, Deputy Warden as well as councelor. Our one request, please try to make him a little more comfortable. It is inhumane to keep a person in that kind of heat in any situation.

I don't know how many are following the happenings in Calif. at Pelican Bay prison. That is a solitary prison. There are inmates, people there that have been in solitary over 25 years! What kind of people are we that we could allow that kind of torture to go on among us? How can we stand silent while people are being held in cages with no human contact?

I remember when my kids were young they would do volunteer hours at the pound and no kill shelter. They would go to "walk the dogs and socialize the cats".

MISSING MICAH

We just returned from Grenada and I couldn't help thinking about how much Micah would have loved it there. Tons of parties, bars and tourists, not to mention kareoke at one of the bars, until three in the morning even.

While we were gone Micah called and chatted with his brother for awhile. He told him he is in solitary because of a "funny letter" he wrote to his friend. He was joking around and in detail told his buddy about how many times he had been, well I will not say it here, but something that happens frequently in jail to men.

So now he knows they really do read all his mail comming and going. So for his own protection they have isolated him from the other inmates. As you all know who know Micah this is true torture for him, being alone that is. I figure he just sings and talks louder to hear someone talking to him!

Lesson number 150 learned at Coconino County!