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Miriam Van Waters Papers. Male Prisoner Correspondence, 1927-1971. Correspondence: G, 1965-1970. A-71, folder 597. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
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Dear Dr Van Waters I received your letter of Christmas Eve today.
As my parents told you I was locked up because I was involved in fight with another inmate. I was locked up for Christmas & the following day I was given five days isolation & fifteen days lose of good time. But what meant the most to me was that I was moved from the minimum section which has a window in each cell to the maximum section, which has a window in each cell to the maximum section which has a very poor ventilation system. I can not understand why I should be made to suffer with a poor ventilation system when my lungs
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act up as a result.
As the program is set up here, it is a privilege to live in a cell with a window & after several months of waiting for such a cell, it can be taken from you for any infraction of a rule, such as fighting.
I have had two so called "infractions of the rules" since I have been liveing in the minimum section but one of them I never should have been locked up for. Two friends were about to fight when I jumped between them & told them to be wise & forget their differences but before they were apart one of the guards told all three of us to go to our rooms. This was cleared up when I seen the deputy,