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I spent a month in the hole. It wasn't pleasant.

- I stayed asleep for as long as I could, whenever I could. Chlorpheniramine was readily distributed to prisoners.

- Exercise was difficult for me after the first week, as was motivation for basically anything.

- I read anything they would bring down there.

- We didn't have a choice in the books we had, so picking something to study wasn't really an option. Outside of the hole, I eventually had an outside person send me a biochemistry textbook though. However, being autodidactic is difficult with a single reference.

- No one talked to me in the segregated housing unit, except for correction officers and during the 5-10 minutes I was able to use the phone a day.

- I didn't experience any prison administrators attempting to provoke any inmates. Although, the grievance system was basically a journaling activity.

- I found it very difficult to write anything longer than a paragraph to anyone my whole time in prison.

- I was a known atheist in prison, due to some reading material I received in the mail. Outside of the SHU, people often tried to engage me about my beliefs, which I avoided.



> I was a known atheist in prison, due to some reading material I received in the mail. Outside of the SHU, people often tried to engage me about my beliefs, which I avoided.

Did this cause any issues other than attempted conversions?


Definitely -- bullying, off the cuff insults, etc. However, that seemed pretty common for most inmates regardless of what they did.




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