Illinois River Correctional Center is not doing well as a facility.  First, let’s talk about the bug problem.  My father explained that small, black ants have terrorized the prison for ten plus years.  Even the guards have said the same.  The ants are everywhere all the time.  My dad said he wakes up with ants in his hair and all over his body.  They infest his property box and ruin his commissary.

During meal times, inmate workers bring trays of food to 3-House, set them on a table, and walk away.  The workers cannot pass out the trays to the cells, unless a guard is with them.  You may be wondering why the guards are not on their wings when the trays arrive.  That, my friends, is an excellent question; one to which I do not have an answer.  On April 24th, my father watched the trays sit on a table for 42 minutes.

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Contact your Illinois Assemblymen here

Contact the US Congressmen LaHood, Durbin, and Duckworth, for Illinois here

Contact Illinois’ Constituent Affairs Department here

Contact IDOC Director Jeffreys and Deputy Director Hammers here

TRIGGER WARNING starting at 7:58
This is a long podcast in which I explain the injustice that my father received in court.  Ultimately his no-soy diet has been denied, legally-ish.

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My test confirming Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
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Hello Free Rocky Nation!  I apologize for being MIA.  I am working as much as I can to prepare for summer and for this channel.  I have a lot of content to put out, so expect several podcasts in June!

Today, I need you guys to take action on Illinois Senate Bill 2333.  What is Senate Bill 2333, you ask?  Let me tell you.  SB 2333 establishes a system called “Earned Discretionary Re-Entry.”  Earned Discretionary Re-Entry, or EDR, uses the existing Prisoner Review Board to evaluate an inmate’s readiness to return to society.  The goal is to release prisoners who have dramatically changed and whose long sentences serve no social purpose.  EDR saves taxpayers money and lots of it!  Parole Illinois reports that incarcerating people who are eligible for this program costs taxpayers $52.3 million per year.  Crime-survivors also support this legislation.  They favor mental-health treatment and rehabilitation over long-term incarceration.

We revisit the questions that I asked in my last episode.  Currently, all inmates at IRCC on court-writ and medical-writ are Illinois River Correctional Center residents.  When a new inmate enters the Illinois Department of Corrections.  Illinois River CC  puts new inmates into quarantine for two weeks on C-Wing in 2-House.   At meal time, staff wear gloves and open the cell doors.  Prison workers, wearing masks, hand out and collect food trays.

I discuss visiting my father in-person.

My father has a lawsuit against East Moline Correctional Center.  My father and I worked together to secure affidavits about the unsanitary living conditions and violence. 

My father is currently in a one-man cell in 2-House on D-wing.  Just to clarify, A-wing is still the COVID-19 quarantine wing in 2-House.  D-wing holds inmates waiting to go to court and waiting to have medical procedures.  My father is having two hernias repaired.  He will go to surgery any day now. 

2-House D-wing inmates are locked in their cells all day for two days straight.  On the third day, they are only allowed out for one hour to shower and use the phones.  When my father asked about this regimen, he was told it was due to COVID.  

I asked if the court-writ transfers are being tested for COVID prior to arriving at Illinois River, or if they are tested once they arrive.  Then I asked what happens after they are tested.  Are COVID-negative inmates still quarantined for two weeks on A-wing or sent straight to D-wing?  Are COVID-positive inmates sent to A-Wing?

When my father recovers from surgery, he has to go somewhere.  I don’t know if he is going to be in 4-House with the other Industry workers, or if he is going to be placed back in 3-House.  Either way, he needs a solid celly.

IDOC is resuming in-person visits!!

With the illegal $150 limits on the commissary, the stripped down inventory, and lack of medical care, I think my dad has grounds for another lawsuit.  So Free Rocky Nation, what do we do?  Do we petition our lawmakers to hold IDOC accountable for their actions and demand that my father’s medical diet be reinstated?  Or, do we watch another lawsuit in the making?  Personally, I think it’s easier if my dad just gets his diet.  But- how does that saying go?- Oh yes, it makes sense, so we can’t do it.

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Contact your incarcerated loved ones.  Sign the petition to get in-person visits again.  And as always, wash your hands.  Questions and feedback at email address [email protected]. 

Apparently, Director Jeffereys is working to implement this 2011 administrative directive to standardize the commissaries- like just now in 2021.  The administrative directive number is 05.06.110 for anyone that is curious.

You may remember that my dad arrived at Illinois River in February of 2020.  That feels like a long time ago.  When he arrived he was placed in 4-House, where other inmates that have jobs in Industry live.  He was moved from 4-House this past Tuesday, March 16th to 3-House.

We had a video visit today.  We were discussing this very issue when our visit was cut short.  While my dad has a right to his opinion, he wasn’t stating opinions.  He was just stating the facts.  Why is he being censored??  Where is his right to free speech? 

The Illinois National Guard made their rounds through Illinois River CC on March 4th to inoculate inmates with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

Ill will is brewing between the staff and the inmates at IRCC.  Morrill is the supervisory civilian employee over Illinois River’s Commissary.  According to the grievance that my father filed on February 5th, Mr. Morrill made the decision to strip down the commissary inventory. 

Remember how guys were popping out of their cells bogus?  The guards are writing tickets for guys who are not supposed to be out of their cells.   How could this go wrong, you ask?  Warden Hinthorne was questioned about why guys were allowed to pop out bogus.  When Warden Hinthorne is questioned, she is questioned by her superiors in Springfield Illinois.  She answered by blaming her correctional officers for allowing it to happen. 

Surprisingly, commissary went well this week.  Commissary arrived Tuesday February 23rd in the full $150 amount.  In two hours and forty minutes, the guards delivered commissary to the entire wing. 

My father did receive an answer to his grievance- the one in which he asked why the $150 limit is being imposed on the commissary when there's not supposed to be a limit at all.  Here is the answer that the Administrative Review Board from Springfield, Illinois gave him.

The inmates have an internal email system.  Internal Affairs reads all incoming and outgoing emails.  I have a ten-year-old son that loves his Grandpa Rocky.  My son is approved to visit in person and on the computer.  My son can talk to my dad on the phone.  My son has written letters and sent pictures to my dad.  Correctional Officer Reavley works the night shift and monitors the emails.  He has recently decided that my father cannot write about my son in any emails, or C/O Reavley will block them.