AIDS: The Lost Voices - Brian Carmichael 'This All Actually Happened' 2/2

While you await the outcome of motions and petitions tied to your appeal of the parole revocation based on the unfounded allegations of that complete twat Trevor Petrowski, the Bay Area Reporter reported on the 4th of November 1996 that you had been charged with resisting staff by uttering an expletive after guards inspected your legal mail, an allegation that led to an extra 90 days being added on to your time.

Do you recall precisely what you said that reportedly warranted such a severe punishment?

I told him, like, hey, you're violating my rights, can't read my legal mail.

But he said something along the lines of, shut up, faggot.

And I told him, fuck you.

Which is like, that's like, good morning and how are you doing? Yeah.

But I guess it's clear with any prisoner, especially yourself, though, being an activist, that they were out to get you.

So the smallest of reason to them to wield their power became a threat in itself.

Oh, it's just ridiculous.

Whatever that ticket was he wrote me, I got thrown out of.

And they reduced the charges just to cover their ass.

But when I got to Corcoran, everything's like word of mouth in prison, right? So they heard that I had access to politicians and the news media, right? So people were writing me kites, like notes in prison, right? They're writing me kites saying like, hey, can you let people know about some outrageous thing that was going on? A lot of the times I would forward their letters to the attorneys at the prison law office in San Quentin or to Judy Greenspan, this big activist in the Bay Area.

In the months and years that followed, if you Google Corcoran prison gladiator matches, it will shock you to your core what was going on there.

Most of the fighting and the shooting of prisoners has occurred in Corcoran's special security housing unit, the SHU, a prison within the prison that is set aside for difficult inmates, violent inmates, from throughout the California prison system.

Lieutenant Steve Rigg was a supervisor at Corcoran.

We've

had inmates killed when it could have been avoided, and now I think it's just a cover-up.

Since Corcoran Prison opened in 1988, guards there have killed eight inmates and wounded scores of others, more than any other prison in the country.

According to both prison guards and inmates, staged battles, gladiator fights, complete with betting, became a regular entertainment at Corcoran.

Matches were set up by selecting inmates from rival gangs from a shoe cell block like this one, and then releasing them one by one into the shoe yard.

at least one corcoran supervisor reportedly amused himself by calling the fights like a ring announcer and that's where most of the shootings took place also officer richard

caruso worked at corcoran with lieutenant steve rigg my superiors sometimes called down to the control booth and asked, are you going to have a yard fight? And the staff told them, yes, we are.

And they were told, the staff were told, hold the yard up.

I have a new secretary that just got on board here at Corcoran.

I want to bring her down and show her the Corcoran way.