I was sentenced to 41 months for possessing two antique rifles and sent to Big Sandy. It was horrible there; Everyone was smoking K2 and doing suboxone and trading sex for drugs. The staff was scarier than anybody else though. At USP Coleman 1, I sat in the SHU for eight months. I saw people who had been back there for over a year! They also locked us down in the units all the time due to staff shortages. And there are so few programs available at the USPs. There’s nothing to do but get high and get in trouble. When you’re released you go to halfway houses and probation that don’t offer any real help either. Everything I’ve accomplished I did on my own. The BOP needs to step it up; it’s inhumane!
July 2025