Latest / Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison / ROR 165: Some Good News

Transcript

ROR 165: Some Good News · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

0:02
Speaker 1: Hello, this is a prebate call from and if the
0:06
Speaker 1: present Department of Correction read an in state prison to
0:10
Speaker 1: accept this call, crass zero.
0:17
Speaker 2: This is Randall bob Aka read on you, Randy. I'm
0:22
Speaker 2: currently serving one thousand, two hundred and fourteen years for
0:25
Speaker 2: capital murder and arm robbery now and finally at a
0:32
Speaker 2: level three fucking Air Correctional Center sowa's throw from where
0:37
Speaker 2: I grew up. If you have any questions or comments
0:41
Speaker 2: and want to leave a message or whatever, I've got
0:43
Speaker 2: a voicemail line. That number is one eight eight eight
0:49
Speaker 2: five Zuit four one nine three suit. You can also
0:53
Speaker 2: visit my website which is new and improved and got
0:57
Speaker 2: different features and whatnot at deput debut red on your
1:01
Speaker 2: Randy dot com. I hope you do. Let's get started
1:06
Speaker 2: with the podcast. Well, I guess this might be called
1:12
Speaker 2: the good News episode because I actually, uh, before change, man,
1:18
Speaker 2: I have some I have some damn good news. Actually
1:21
Speaker 2: a couple of pieces of good news to share with y'all.
1:25
Speaker 2: The first one actually impacts y'all and myself, and that's
1:31
Speaker 2: read on your Randy's not Gonna Die. We kind of
1:35
Speaker 2: thought for a little bit that it might and we've
1:38
Speaker 2: been scrambling, so all of my listeners who actually went
1:43
Speaker 2: online and did research and you know, Janine, Sarah, David
1:49
Speaker 2: Cupcake and you know, just too many more to mention.
1:54
Speaker 2: Thank y'all. We actually did find a new service that
1:59
Speaker 2: will provide me international phone calls, so I can continue
2:02
Speaker 2: to record red Onion Randy, I can continue to talk
2:06
Speaker 2: to my wife and you know, the friends that you know,
2:08
Speaker 2: God has blessed me with overseas, and I'm really happy
2:13
Speaker 2: about that. The second piece of news is this, you
2:22
Speaker 2: know I've talked about in previous episodes, where I was
2:27
Speaker 2: being transferred finally out of Keene Mountain, out of the
2:30
Speaker 2: mountains the Western region, coming back to Lowlands, you know,
2:35
Speaker 2: and I had to go through hell to get here,
2:37
Speaker 2: as my longtime listeners already know. But I had applied
2:45
Speaker 2: for Lawrence Though. That was my first choice. Because you're
2:48
Speaker 2: when you go up for your annimal view, when you
2:50
Speaker 2: go up for transfer, they give you three choices. You
2:53
Speaker 2: get to pick your prisons you want to go to
2:55
Speaker 2: when the order you want to go. And I picked Lawrenceville,
2:58
Speaker 2: which is the incentive prison because I've been nineteen years
3:01
Speaker 2: charge free and it is my idea. I actually created Lawrenceville,
3:06
Speaker 2: and if you go back and listen to one of
3:07
Speaker 2: my earlier podcast episodes, you will see what I'm talking about. Secondly,
3:14
Speaker 2: I picked Buckingham, which is where I'm at right now,
3:17
Speaker 2: because it's so close to home. I could literally walk
3:20
Speaker 2: home from here if they opened the front gates for me.
3:23
Speaker 2: And my second choice was Beaumont, which was my old
3:27
Speaker 2: juvenile prison I spent so many years at. They actually
3:31
Speaker 2: moved the juveniles out and converted that into an adult
3:36
Speaker 2: prison and it's like a work camp now. Wanted to
3:42
Speaker 2: go there because, you know, still it's only it's only
3:45
Speaker 2: you know, maybe fifteen to twenty miles up the road
3:48
Speaker 2: from where I'm at here in Buckingham, so it's still
3:50
Speaker 2: close to home, though it's closer to Richmond than it
3:53
Speaker 2: is to charlotte Sville. So those were my three choices.
3:56
Speaker 2: And as we all know, I got sent to Buckingham,
3:59
Speaker 2: so got screwed out of my first choice, the incentive prison.
4:04
Speaker 2: And I wanted to go to the incentive prison simply
4:06
Speaker 2: because it's an incentive prison. Like I've earned my rights
4:10
Speaker 2: to extra privileges, I've earned my right through good behavior.
4:14
Speaker 2: Through this I've had to put up with the crow
4:17
Speaker 2: I've had to eat, the times I've had to bite
4:19
Speaker 2: my tongue, the times I've had to just like talk
4:23
Speaker 2: to myself out to just hurting somebody. I think I
4:28
Speaker 2: deserved the incentive prison. However, Department of Corrections they thought differently.
4:38
Speaker 2: They said no, so they sent me to Buckingham. Oh.
4:43
Speaker 2: I love vengeance, especially when it's not me that has
4:47
Speaker 2: to go out and get it. I will say this,
4:51
Speaker 2: God has avenged me people, because now they are turning
4:58
Speaker 2: Buckingham and Green Rock into a cent of prisons. And
5:05
Speaker 2: let me tell you, there are so many dudes on
5:09
Speaker 2: this compound that are panicking. I mean they are straight
5:15
Speaker 2: panicking because you've got about eleven hundred inmates on this
5:20
Speaker 2: compound and about seven hundred of them, give or take
5:26
Speaker 2: a few, are being transferred out of here. Because the
5:29
Speaker 2: first thing you have to be to, you know, to
5:31
Speaker 2: go to an ascentate prison now, is you have to
5:33
Speaker 2: be four years charge thrue. You cannot have a charge
5:37
Speaker 2: in that time. If you do, your ass is up
5:41
Speaker 2: off of here. So and they're also they said they
5:45
Speaker 2: want to around June fifteenth, that's when the transfers are
5:48
Speaker 2: going to take place, and it's going to be just
5:49
Speaker 2: one week. Those seven hundred individuals will be transferred off
5:54
Speaker 2: this compound throughout wherever, and all of those guys that
5:59
Speaker 2: actually qualify if to come to this prison are going
6:04
Speaker 2: to be transferred to this prison. They're shutting down some
6:08
Speaker 2: of the pods they have, like the sampod, which is
6:10
Speaker 2: you know, the mental health pod, which is I'm currently
6:13
Speaker 2: in right now, not because I'm a mental health in May,
6:16
Speaker 2: but because of my single cell status. You know, they
6:19
Speaker 2: felt it was the best place to put me. So
6:21
Speaker 2: it doesn't really set precedent of other people asking and
6:26
Speaker 2: trying to get single cells in general population down here
6:29
Speaker 2: in Lowlands, because normally that's an upper level kind of thing.
6:35
Speaker 2: I don't care, you know, pods are pod to me.
6:38
Speaker 2: Long as I have my single cell, I don't give
6:39
Speaker 2: a damn word you put me on a roof as
6:41
Speaker 2: far as I care. In the basement now, the good
6:48
Speaker 2: thing is one as you know, people know I'm filing
6:53
Speaker 2: for a party. You know, my wife really really stepped
6:56
Speaker 2: up to the plate and she spent her life saving
6:59
Speaker 2: thirty five hundred dollars to pay a guy to help
7:03
Speaker 2: me apply for a party. You know, this is this
7:08
Speaker 2: is a guy who is he's official. He has gotten
7:13
Speaker 2: several people part if he doesn't guarantee nothing, I'm not
7:16
Speaker 2: gonna sit here and say that nothing is guaranteed. But
7:19
Speaker 2: he is pretty good. You know. He knows how to
7:23
Speaker 2: work the system. He knows the angles, he knows how
7:25
Speaker 2: it needs to be written, he knows what they're looking for,
7:29
Speaker 2: and so on and so forth. So the fact that
7:32
Speaker 2: I can now add, hey, look, I'm not only nineteen
7:36
Speaker 2: years charged for your honorable Governor. I'm also in the
7:42
Speaker 2: Department's incentive prison. That's just one more feather in my cat.
7:47
Speaker 2: You know, I've got the books coming out. As a
7:50
Speaker 2: matter of fact, I just dropped the new children's novel
7:53
Speaker 2: on Amazon, The Adventure of Patches and Hissy. Really really
7:58
Speaker 2: cool story. This is actually a story boy way back
8:01
Speaker 2: in the day, when I was still in long term
8:03
Speaker 2: solitary confinement that red onion. You know, I was sitting
8:08
Speaker 2: there uppacing the floor one day and I was just
8:10
Speaker 2: kind of daydreaming about going home and being married and
8:14
Speaker 2: having kids, and you know, I just you know, I
8:17
Speaker 2: was just daydreaming about having a daughter and you know
8:20
Speaker 2: her one day coming up daddy, Daddy, tell me a story,
8:22
Speaker 2: And I just started thinking about what kind of story
8:26
Speaker 2: would I tell her? And I came up with Patches
8:29
Speaker 2: in Hissy. Patches is a bunny rabbit, Hissy is a
8:34
Speaker 2: weasel with an O patch. And it's cold story, cold story.
8:38
Speaker 2: But if you have young kids, go check it out.
8:41
Speaker 2: What no, Like I said, it is on Amazon and
8:42
Speaker 2: it's print and ebook. But back to the incentive prisons,
8:49
Speaker 2: like this is just it's one more thing that just
8:52
Speaker 2: helps me, and not only you know, helps me with
8:55
Speaker 2: the party, but it helps me in here being in prison.
8:58
Speaker 2: Because one of the things that they're doing is obviously
9:02
Speaker 2: we're getting better mattresses. They already said as soon as
9:05
Speaker 2: everybody's transferred off of here and we got all the
9:08
Speaker 2: new guys coming on and whatnot, and it's those who
9:12
Speaker 2: are here are here. Those who are not going to
9:14
Speaker 2: be here there ass it's gone. You get six inch
9:16
Speaker 2: thick mattresses, and like they're supposed to be really comfortable.
9:20
Speaker 2: It's supposed to be really really nice mattresses. Oh my god,
9:24
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to that. You're going to get every launch,
9:28
Speaker 2: every dinner they have a salad bar. Not quite sure
9:32
Speaker 2: how they're going to do that. I don't know if
9:35
Speaker 2: they're gonna like it's, you know, like a buffet style.
9:38
Speaker 2: You just you get your train and then you go
9:39
Speaker 2: to the salad bar and you know, you make your
9:42
Speaker 2: own salad. I don't know if it's just going to
9:45
Speaker 2: be like an open table with stuff sitting there. I
9:47
Speaker 2: don't know if it's going to have like an inmate
9:49
Speaker 2: worker and you just tell them, hey, I want this,
9:51
Speaker 2: this and this sneeze guard. We don't know what it's
9:54
Speaker 2: gonna be. Oh, but I mean it's a freaking salad bar,
9:58
Speaker 2: like I am looking forward to that. I guarantee as
10:01
Speaker 2: long as it's sanitary, as long as it's clean, and
10:05
Speaker 2: you know, I don't have to worry about some stupid
10:08
Speaker 2: you know, because you know, you've got some dirty guys
10:10
Speaker 2: in here. Like I've got two neighbors. They genuinely are
10:14
Speaker 2: mental health individuals. Actually I don't talk to one, but
10:17
Speaker 2: I do talk to the young one, Frankie. He's freaking cool.
10:20
Speaker 2: He's autistic, but like that's a funny little bum for cruyt.
10:23
Speaker 2: Let me tell you. You know, they don't take showers,
10:26
Speaker 2: so you know, I don't I don't want to be
10:31
Speaker 2: eating out of a salad bar where you got guys
10:33
Speaker 2: that you know ain't been in the shower in three months,
10:35
Speaker 2: and they're sitting there picking up things, and man, I
10:37
Speaker 2: don't know if I want that and setting it back
10:39
Speaker 2: down and you screw all that. I don't want salad
10:43
Speaker 2: that bag, but if it's clean, man, salad every launch
10:46
Speaker 2: and every dinner, just to get those extra veggiesus extra
10:50
Speaker 2: vitamins and minerals, and oh my god, I'm looking forward
10:54
Speaker 2: to that right there. And the food is already good here,
10:56
Speaker 2: like I'm genuine I don't outside have been mixing it
11:00
Speaker 2: peanut butter and jelly crap that they do once a week.
11:04
Speaker 2: Like the food is great here. I genuinely I don't
11:08
Speaker 2: have much to complain about it. You know, it sucks
11:10
Speaker 2: that we keep having to go on freaking lockdown for
11:13
Speaker 2: what somebody stupid does. But hopefully now that this is
11:18
Speaker 2: going to be in your center prison and you've got
11:20
Speaker 2: to be four years charge, tree, that lockdown crap will stop,
11:24
Speaker 2: at least you would think so. Anyway, they're thinking about
11:29
Speaker 2: doing a potato bar. Now, I'm assuming the potato bar
11:31
Speaker 2: is like a salad bar. You got different types of
11:34
Speaker 2: potatoes with different types of toppings. Now that would be cool.
11:37
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's going to happen or not
11:39
Speaker 2: to Warden said, he's trying to get it, but he
11:41
Speaker 2: doesn't know if he's going to be able to pull
11:43
Speaker 2: it off. It's going to be a lot more outside wreck.
11:48
Speaker 2: They're going to do that a little bit differently. You
11:52
Speaker 2: should be allowed to order coffee pots, institutional coffee pots
11:56
Speaker 2: for your own cell so when we do have to
11:59
Speaker 2: go on lockdown, I don't got to worry about, you know,
12:02
Speaker 2: paying the damn houseman out there. Hey, put this in
12:05
Speaker 2: the microwave for me, just so I can get a
12:06
Speaker 2: decent cup of coffee. I've got my own damn machine.
12:11
Speaker 2: They're supposed to be uh. I think they're talking about
12:15
Speaker 2: allowing us because right now I can buy shoes, watch
12:20
Speaker 2: I can buy t shirts and underwear and socks, and
12:22
Speaker 2: I can even buy a Levi Favo one jeans and
12:27
Speaker 2: a Levi Favo one jean jacket. I can buy denim
12:31
Speaker 2: shirts and stuff like that. You know what they're thinking
12:35
Speaker 2: about saying, because y'all are in incentive prison, you can
12:39
Speaker 2: actually order your clothes now from either kifie or Access
12:45
Speaker 2: Secure Path company, and they have a catalog out just
12:49
Speaker 2: got all kinds of shoes and clothes and you know,
12:52
Speaker 2: different things in there, and they're actually cheaper than what
12:55
Speaker 2: you can buy them more commissary. So I think one
12:58
Speaker 2: pair of jeans in my size is like fifty four
13:02
Speaker 2: dollars and some change, and we'll say fifty five bucks,
13:05
Speaker 2: you know. But I might be able to go into
13:07
Speaker 2: the access catalog and actually bumb for like thirty five dollars,
13:12
Speaker 2: you know, which would be a general help because I
13:14
Speaker 2: do want to get these, you know, some real damn
13:16
Speaker 2: genes here very shortly. So it's just a lot of
13:21
Speaker 2: different privileges that you're going to get. And this is
13:25
Speaker 2: just the stuff that they're kind of talking about. There's
13:27
Speaker 2: there's more things that they're not sure if we're going
13:29
Speaker 2: to get or now that they're trying to get, it's
13:31
Speaker 2: supposed to be a lot more programs. And one of
13:36
Speaker 2: the things that I'm going to do, and I've already
13:38
Speaker 2: talked to the Chap about and the Chap is the
13:42
Speaker 2: chief of Housing and Programs, that's the acronym for his title.
13:47
Speaker 2: I spoke to him about putting me in front of
13:50
Speaker 2: a camera and allowing me to address the juvenile population
13:54
Speaker 2: in the Virginia Department of Corrections, you know, and like
13:58
Speaker 2: doing a program for just where I just talked to them,
14:01
Speaker 2: just I'm not really going to be sitting there. Hey,
14:03
Speaker 2: you know, try these exercises or this or that. I
14:06
Speaker 2: wouldn't mind doing something like that if we can get
14:09
Speaker 2: it up and running and so on and so forth. However
14:12
Speaker 2: that might take a little bit more planning, and just
14:15
Speaker 2: I just want to like reach out to them. Just
14:17
Speaker 2: do something, man, let them know that you really don't
14:19
Speaker 2: want to come down this path. Like I know, I
14:22
Speaker 2: did seven years in the juvenile prison system. I've done
14:24
Speaker 2: twenty seven years in the adult system. I've slipped two
14:27
Speaker 2: people's throats, I've fault the police, I've robbed dudes, I've
14:30
Speaker 2: kicked in their cells. You know, I've done all this stuff.
14:34
Speaker 2: Like they're going to respect that from me, and the
14:37
Speaker 2: fact that not only have I done it, I've got
14:41
Speaker 2: the paperwork to actually prove it. And that's big when
14:45
Speaker 2: it comes to the juveniles because they man, talk is cheap.
14:48
Speaker 2: They hear talk all the time. They want to see proof.
14:51
Speaker 2: So when you have someone like me addressing them and
14:55
Speaker 2: telling them that and I can show them the proof.
14:58
Speaker 2: I can show them the prison charges. I can you know,
15:01
Speaker 2: they can actually have their counselor log into course because
15:04
Speaker 2: it's all their adult system and the juvenile system is
15:08
Speaker 2: all under the Virginia Department of Corrections headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.
15:12
Speaker 2: It's you know, it's all under the same exact umbrella,
15:16
Speaker 2: you know, so they have the same computer system. They
15:18
Speaker 2: can actually find out through their counselor or what not,
15:22
Speaker 2: like is this do legitimate? And I will actually tell
15:25
Speaker 2: them then that hey, look, I mean, have your counselor
15:27
Speaker 2: go look it up on course and I'll give them
15:30
Speaker 2: my name and state number and everything. Make it easy
15:32
Speaker 2: for me because they're going to listen. That doesn't mean
15:36
Speaker 2: I'm going to actually reach every single one of them.
15:38
Speaker 2: And some people are just too hurt. Some people have
15:40
Speaker 2: got too much trauma to be reached, you know, through
15:43
Speaker 2: a video. But some of them will it will reach
15:47
Speaker 2: some of them might not reach it now, but it
15:49
Speaker 2: will plant seeds and eventually those seeds will sprout grow,
15:55
Speaker 2: you know. So this might give me the opportunity to
16:00
Speaker 2: build one of my dreams, and that's actually meant for
16:03
Speaker 2: and reach the juvenile correctional system, because that's all I know.
16:10
Speaker 2: This is prison locked up, sells, guard tires, guns pointed
16:15
Speaker 2: at me, you know, Caden, I was trying to rip
16:18
Speaker 2: my throat out, like this is all I've ever known
16:20
Speaker 2: since I was a kid, you know, and even when
16:23
Speaker 2: I was on the street, I don't have a lot
16:25
Speaker 2: of warm, fuzzy you know, drinking hot cocoa on a
16:28
Speaker 2: snowy night while the family reached stories and play games together,
16:32
Speaker 2: Like if we wasn't that kind of family, trust me,
16:35
Speaker 2: it was more along the lines of dad getting drunk
16:37
Speaker 2: out of his mind and chasing us around with a
16:39
Speaker 2: damn stick. Good times. This right here could be a
16:49
Speaker 2: game trinks, this right here, you know, it's just I mean,
16:52
Speaker 2: let's face it, when you're around, there's going to be
16:54
Speaker 2: no game members here, you know, and if they are,
16:59
Speaker 2: they're retired game membs. I mean, you have to be
17:01
Speaker 2: four years tar tree. Do you know how hard that
17:04
Speaker 2: is to do? In the Virginia Department of Corrections, and
17:07
Speaker 2: you're going to have a whole compound full of guys,
17:11
Speaker 2: you know, and supposedly like they don't even have enough
17:15
Speaker 2: to fill the prison up, you know, so they they
17:19
Speaker 2: might actually have a couple of empty pods here simply
17:22
Speaker 2: because they don't have people to put in them yet.
17:30
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to you know,
17:33
Speaker 2: the food is supposed to get better, the property is
17:37
Speaker 2: supposed to get better, the programming, the jobs. They're even
17:41
Speaker 2: supposed supposedly they said they're even going to raise the
17:44
Speaker 2: pay rate. I don't know by how much. Maybe, like
17:48
Speaker 2: because right now you got twenty seven cent, thirty five cent,
17:52
Speaker 2: and forty five cent jobs. So maybe the twenty seven
17:55
Speaker 2: cent jobs will go to forty five cent, the thirty
17:58
Speaker 2: five will go to sixty five cent, forty five will
18:01
Speaker 2: go to like maybe seventy five cents an hour, you know,
18:05
Speaker 2: thirty forty hours a week or something like that. Another
18:09
Speaker 2: thing you'll be able to do is once a month
18:12
Speaker 2: thing you can order like pizza, hamburgers, tacos or you know,
18:17
Speaker 2: chicken or whatnot from like Pizza hud KFC, McDonald's or
18:22
Speaker 2: or whatever the case may be. You know, maybe like
18:24
Speaker 2: you can order a subway sub or something. That's another
18:28
Speaker 2: thing they're talking about. I'm definitely looking forward to this.
18:35
Speaker 2: Like I have paid my dues people, you know, and
18:38
Speaker 2: that's the last couple of days, I've just been sitting
18:41
Speaker 2: back and just thinking about my journey, thinking about where
18:45
Speaker 2: I come from. You know, I was here on Buckingham
18:50
Speaker 2: when Buckingham was wide open. You know, I was here
18:55
Speaker 2: when dudes were just I mean, it was crazy and wild.
18:59
Speaker 2: Went to Wallace, It's got kicked off the Ridge, went
19:01
Speaker 2: to rich you have one minute remaining, worked my way
19:06
Speaker 2: out the whole, went to Sussex. One dropped the child
19:10
Speaker 2: molester in his tracks, got sent back to red Onion
19:12
Speaker 2: and no left. Red Onion was supposed to go to
19:15
Speaker 2: King Mountain, but they sent me back to freaking the
19:17
Speaker 2: Ridge instead, and I had to do another eighteen months
19:19
Speaker 2: there and then finally making the Keen mount and now
19:22
Speaker 2: I'm down here. Got screwed out of my centate prison,
19:25
Speaker 2: but since they didn't want to do that, God brought
19:28
Speaker 2: the incentered prison to me. I'm doing pretty good right now.
19:35
Speaker 2: I know, you know, trials and test ahead of me,
19:37
Speaker 2: and I'll deal with it the way I always do,
19:40
Speaker 2: on my feet with my hands up. But it's nice
19:44
Speaker 2: to have some peace and quiet right now. And I'm
19:46
Speaker 2: definitely looking forward to this. So thank you for keeping
19:50
Speaker 2: me in your prayers for those who have all Right,
19:53
Speaker 2: that's that's all the time we have for now. I
19:56
Speaker 2: appreciate you listening to me more than you'll you'll probably
20:00
Speaker 2: ever know. I just want to let you know, you know,
20:04
Speaker 2: don't forget to check out my website right on your
20:06
Speaker 2: Randy dot com. And for those of you who want
20:11
Speaker 2: to hear more, or you want to listen to the
20:14
Speaker 2: episodes commercial free, or hear me and my editor discuss
20:20
Speaker 2: a little bit further into the episodes, please go to Patreon,
20:25
Speaker 2: Join me, support me. You know, it's only five bucks
20:29
Speaker 2: a month. And just a reminder, I have a cookbook
20:34
Speaker 2: out you're going to eat that you can find it
20:38
Speaker 2: on our website or Amazon Kindle or Amazon Print. Thank
21:10
Speaker 2: you for using the GTL