(seq. 61)

Richard Gingras

1-1-68

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