Shackled, Chris writes a letter to the prison.
You tell me who I have injured, maimed, raped, molested or killed to justify being treated in this manner.
Yes, it is true I have used a gun in obtaining a financial advantage in the commission of a crime in the past. This may be due to lacking ability in seeking a financial benefit with the ease of a stroke of a pen, like so many others, or the gift or the qualities that amount to becoming a politician.
Yes, some may have suffered during bouts of terror associated during the act of armed robbery by verbal threats, for which I apologise, yet does anyone shed a tear for the suffering, trauma and torment inflicted upon me by a number of aggressive, abusive staff assigned to cater and handle my care. No.
I do not seek forgiveness or sympathy by any but only to remind others that I too am human.
I shall enter back into the community one day as a member of society and hopefully a productive member in the workforce. I have done wrong and have paid the ultimate price with the loss of my liberty, amongst other things, but surely I don’t need to suffer to this extent at the hands of my keepers and to be treated far worse than an animal, being trussed up and placed in chains in this day and age.