The day goes on.

It has been some time since I posted on this blog. You would expect that much has happened. To the contrary, nothing has really changed. Derik Still sits at a medium security even though the program that he took has been completed for a couple of weeks, nearly a month actually. His transfer request is in, his passes have been approved since February, but nothing has really changed. He gets no passes for staff shortage reasons. He is not getting transferred yet because it will take about 6 months of paperwork. Not that it takes 6 months to do it, but it takes that long to encourage the staff to complete their obligatory paperwork. It can take even longer if the staff decides, as his last internal parole officer did, that she/he is not going to do anything at all for several months.
Can you hear my frustration? Multiply that by 100 and you get some sense of his frustration levels.