But werent Mexicans here first LOL. Pretty sure they share the piece of land we live on. I'm pretty sure we don't have any ancient temples representing Caucasian buried in the ground lmao

Us friendly Canadians would be more than happy to show you how to chip that icy rigidness off your hearts. Arizona u want to warm up come up to Canada cuz I heard the temps are freezing in the South.lol

In the most simplest sense, we need easily accessible organizing. Something and somewhere to refer to when people want to start moving positively.

I don’t mean giant threads, and I don’t mean anything that really involves scrolling and clicking a lot for people to find answers.

If you google “Arizona leftist groups” or something along those lines, we’ll get a bunch of varying groups with websites that aren’t really updated much at all.

A simple website and social media page that tells the person searching, what’s the next move, something that can be attached to random telephone polls, put into the library, something

I think there needs to be an objective / goal set, the idea is to inform and execute.

If this means contacting these Arizona left leaning groups to try to get some ground together, so be it.

A lot of stipulations and back and forths get us too far away from the primary goal in trying to unite the American working class.

I don’t have much knowledge of coding, nor do I have much knowledge of organizing. All I know is that streets don’t know what they need to know, they’re scared, and looking for answers.

If anyone has an idea where our first step can be, feel free to comment, I’m going to be doing what I can

I think Crystal and Kyle are doing a live thing. I'll probably watch them.

If you’re already registered, early voting ends on November 1st, but you can still vote on Election Day. It’s too late to register for this election, so here’s what you need to bring when voting:

1.	Option 1: One Photo ID with your name and address, such as:
•	Arizona driver’s license
•	Arizona non-operating ID
•	Tribal ID
•	U.S. federal, state, or local government ID

2.	Option 2: Two Non-Photo IDs with your name and address, like:
•	Utility bill, bank statement (dated within 90 days)
•	Arizona vehicle registration
•	Property tax statement, voter registration card
•	Official Election Material mailing

3.	Option 3: Combination of one photo ID without a matching address (e.g., U.S. passport, military ID) plus one non-photo ID from Option 2 with your matching address.

For details on ID requirements, visit https://www.vote.org/state/arizona/

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See you at the Polls!

Feeling a little hated. Feeling a little like the propaganda is out to get you. Just remember, you don't live in the only part of the world and the hate that exists around you does not exist everywhere else, in Canada our Spanish. Latino population has probably doubled in my lifetime. Maybe tripled and they are welcomed with open arms and we love the vibrancy of the culture that they bring to Canada. We've never had a Mexican get out of jail and rape somebody in Canada that I know of. I mean if we did it wasn't any more common than any other race, so I really hope that I'm not hearing that Arizona is allowing hate propaganda in politics, especially when we're talking about voting in a previously convicted criminal LOL but seriously yikes. So if you live somewhere in the United States, maybe in Arizona and you're feeling less loved. Just remember that the images that is being projected around you about you is just that a projected image. It is colder in Canada but remember Canadians love Mexican.

Are being followed when your institutions are showing dishwashers as functioning when they aren't and people are eating off of trays that have to be hand washed by other inmates. I'm sorry, I'm almost 1000% sure that that is not legal. So I have to trust your dope heads in the kitchen that they're going to clean properly with no sanitizer, no steam sanitization and then you're going to pretend it's working for the people that come and inspect. Hello! Hello hello! Hello!

Im coming to az and I’ve had an amazing time getting involved with tenant and worker led campaigns in other states and I’m wondering how I can do the same here !

I’m moving to Phoenix area late September and living with in-laws while new home in Texas is being built. So I’ll be there 6 months or so.

Do I just need to get an AZ drivers license for residency and use that when I register to vote? Or is there an easier way?

Can anybody tell me who I am supposed to report misconduct to Based on officers signing documentation and training?

So the senator who is advertising herself as transparency and corrections has literally at no point. I addressed my issue that I have been sending to her for months and not because it's not valid. Let's not get this mixed up. I worked in corrections in Canada for 6 years. I went to college for a correctional worker. I'm not an idiot and the reason that I'm pursuing this is because I worked in corrections and this is absurd and can't go without accountability. However, Arizona offers no accountability and I'm not saying this as a blanket statement. I'm saying it because this is what it has shown me when the governor only will forward your complaint to the people you are complaining about. How does that make sense? It doesn't but online it says if you're not getting results at the department of corrections, the next step is the governor. They have refused to hear my complaint at all. The ombudsman I believe also is an employee of the department of corrections because even though I know clearly these are major complaints they upon talking to their cohorts, I mean co-workers aren't going to address it. And why does an inmate have an ombudsman that isn't employed by the department of corrections? That seems like a conflict of interest. The Inspector general. Allison Reagan had a great conversation with her on the phone. She even said to me that oh 8 months without online visits. Wow, that's unacceptable. I used to work with these people in some of these institutions. I bet you did. Let me look into it. The next message not even a call. I simply got an email saying guess what. Guess what she said she was forwarding my complaint to the department of corrections. No no no. I'm complaining about the department of corrections. It is your job to investigate. This will not take my complaint refusing to literally after she spoke to her friends. I guess this is why I made the comment earlier because it actually and I feel bad for the people of Arizona that are faced with this incredible Injustice on with a state who from what I can tell literally runs its economy off of the jail. It should have a much more better system than what they're doing. Does anybody realize that they were charging inmates for dirty ice out of their fridge? Not ice clean out of a bag paid for? They were charging them for dirty ice out of their freezer. Is there not some kind of covid rules that you guys had for this? That's crazy. Charging them for it in the hottest place in North America. What?. So now I've been contacting the Justice department civil rights division attempted to make a complaint but get this I can fill out the complaint form. I can even enter my postal code as a postal code but when it goes to pick your state or province there's no province options so I have to lie on this form to submit a complaint. Really, this is the justice department and this is the kind of IT errors you're running with.geez and now it's a week into that. Still not one person answering at any single one of the phone numbers in the civil rights division at the justice department. Insane. If someone else knows of a agency that oversees state-run institutions, I would love to hear about it. Because the Lewis complex had employees that not only prevented online visits for well over 8 months on purpose but also harass me at home via emails. Broke protocol to do these harassing emails lied to me and everybody else and then they allowed that same person to then oversee my visits and harass me more. I'm not even going to continue the story because it angers me so much that this is acceptable to anybody there and that I'm the one getting punished by them because I caught them lying. I don't want to be on this prison's Reddit thing but I am out of options and I cannot accept this going without accountability. And just for the Cherry on your Sunday, I want a different angle here in Canada. When you get hired by the Ministry of corrections, you sign a code of conduct and if that's breached the ethical codes of conduct that you signed to obey. There's no questions. You're going to get fired because they're major breaches of peoples rights and infringements on the vulnerable so I figured there must be the same type of contract there. This is going to blow your mind. I hope when I called the corrections training center and finally found a person who could even offer me an answer about who they're signing that promissary note to because she told me it's not a contract she couldn't answer and then her final answer was I guess they're signing it to themselves. So let me get this straight if I want to hold one of your staff accountable for breaching their code of conduct that they sign for upon leaving your school that I have to go to themselves to hold them accountable for it. Please somebody explain this to me. Where am I going wrong here or is it just literally impossible for there to be accountability and corrections in at least Arizona? I don't know about other states cuz I don't deal with them but I know in Arizona my heart breaks for the people. Why that have to maneuver this not just the inmates but the poor families that are not getting informed properly that are going on department of corrections that are full of corrections jargon and are not clearly marked for any person even if they were in corrections. If they were not versed on this page they would never find the information they need. They make you pay through these third-party companies outrageous prices. You get no help with them and everybody blames everybody else when nothing gets done. I feel really bad for the people dealing with this. I posted on the Facebook page how to switch your phone over to the tablet and it blew my mind. The number of poor poor family members that did not know that was happening or how to do it and somebody's 82-year-old mother had to rely on me in Canada to put pressure in Arizona so that they would help her set up a visit so she could see her son before she's dead and she worked in the records department of her police department for her entire career. Why does she have to jump through hoops for 3 months and have corrections? Officer was calling her at 6:30 in the morning just so she can understand how to visit her kid

So now at least with IC solutions I didn't have to pay to add funds to speak on a collect call. How ridiculous is this. Please people this must breach some kind of ethical business standard treatment of humans, something there. So now you're going to charge me simply to add funds so somebody can make a collect call to me. This can't be real and is nobody disturbed by the fact that the people who are in charge of investigating your correction workers are employed by the corrections department?

Here's what you have to do. If your loved one has switched from the phone to the tablet. I let the constituents office know that it was completely absurd to have this information unknown prior to the day because I already deposited money on IC solutions which I'm going to have to wait weeks to get back now. But it's also in a place on their web page that is so hard to find and obscure that that there's no way anybody could ever find it. It's impossible they don't care but I let them know

Another update after continuing my Google searching as it's difficult for me to find true answers about Arizona. Politics says for my complaints I need to go to the inspector general. I looked her up. Her name is Allison, contacted her over the phone. We had a great conversation at first to which she divulged to me that oh she used to work at these jails with these people again, super conflict of interest. But at this point I actually wasn't aware that the inspector general is employed by the department of corrections. Do I need to point out the problem with that? Is there a place that holds correctional employees accountable that isn't employed by the department of corrections? Like honestly this is such a joke. So at first her acknowledgment of hearing how long visits online have been prevented because of the officers lying and not wanting to do work, which again, yikes, you're stealing people's Joy. Wow, that's heavy. Heavy s***, but once she went and spoke to those ex-colleagues LOL. She then responded by telling me she was also referring me to the liaisons department for the department of corrections who are included in my complaint and are people that she's supposed to be investigating due to my complaint. Because why do I need to say it because they have a personal problem with me because of exposing all this. They've harassed me and bullied me and retaliated emailed me at home about visits. They weren't even present for breaching protocol which sounds pretty harassing. Wouldn't you agree?. And so they told her not to take my complaint. What are you? Kidding me. So what I mean just what so I call Homeland security because that's who it says that you are supposed to call to complain about an inspector general and also the head of state because that is who you call to complain about a governor's office. Like there's seven people running your state and they all work for the department of corrections. Get a grip people. I have no empathy for you if you were going to ignorantly allow this to happen but I will continue to make people push pencils because accountability is the only way to keep us in check. Isn't that the point of corrections f****** joke

Yesterday when I called the investigator general, I'm going to be honest. I wasn't actually prepared for anybody to take report from me over the phone and so naturally getting caught off guard. You forget a few things that you sort of wish you maybe would have mentioned. I try to keep them important. Well I mean it's all important but important for paperwork and red tape . So to reinforce my issues I've been having, I let her know that recently I in Canada had to assist an 82-year-old woman, a mother who just wanted to see her son before she couldn't do that anymore. Book a visit for herself. So I gave her the number to offender operations because forget the jail. They don't help you. You can't even get through to visits. Their voicemail is full every single day and they don't answer the phone. ultimately offender operations could have taken the time to guide this woman to the proper place online that she needed to book her visit because she was doing one in person. I didn't really know that process which is why I referred her to offender operations, but no, she did not Grant this 82-year-old mother the courtesy of saving her more waiting and another call , I would hope that person knows how to book a visit at offender operations. They instead email the jail and have them call her. However, visits deemed it appropriate to call her at 6:30 in the morning. I mean what? So the only reason I ended up talking to this lady is because my correspondent asked me if I can help her because her son approached him knowing that I was having to self-educate myself on the visit system there because nobody seemed to know to tell me, that I could possibly call his mother. I'm in Canada remember and help her book that visit which naturally I obviously did because that is the human thing to do. I didn't need to have people pressure me to do that. I did that to be human and I'm glad I did because she was a lovely lovely lady. A lovely lady who worked in the Records at her local r police station her whole career, she lost one child already to violence and this is how she was treated. So I left a message relaying this information about this other person who is actually a citizen in Arizona and the response I got was an email back the next day saying my complaint was forwarded to the people I'm complaining about. This is a common problem in dealing with agencies in Arizona. I am coming to find out. who is running the state.? Is it the department of corrections or somebody else? Because when I go to the person who's responsible for investigating the department of corrections. And by the way she admitted to me that she used to work in these jails so that's kind of screwed up I expect that they're going to be looking into it, not forwarding the complaint to the people I'm complaining about so they can look into themselves? I suppose this goes in line with their promissory note about code of conduct to themselves? They do in training. Stay tuned.

Good Canadian morning everyone. I really need reaffirm in the second part that although I have an extreme level of disappointment and frustration and anger and literally the Arizona department of corrections has emotionally drained and affected me in Canada. Those are not lies. I do not wish to make it a malicious post, but I don't really think that people understand how important is that you are monitoring and holding your correctional staff accountable because remember they are housing the most precious commodity people and if they can't do a simple thing like be honest with me about a phone call or a visit if they can continuously lie to the public and get away with it. What do you think that's going to lead to and I'll bet already has so it is important. Yes, police are under fire. I see that but they are in the public nobody's at their dinner table asking each other if they're following protocol at the jail tonight, which is just as important. So after 3 months of troubleshooting and when I say troubleshooting if none of y'all have spent a minute trying to get through to JPay securus IC solutions or any one of your government agencies except for the investigator general who were prompt, courteous and listened to my complaint, I've received nothing but ridiculous responses insults almost condescension for a simple questions on behaviors of people within the ministry that I've dealt with. This next challenge of the online visit are going to be honest, it broke my spirit. Once the institution approved me as an online visitor, I began to start attempting to book a visit through securus not JPay not IC solutions to have already dealt with now with one institution , and again, how is an 82-year-old mother supposed to navigate this? Like this is the best you can do. You can't have one company for regions. You have to have. Every company have their toe in each institution to complicate it for everybody else charging absurd fees to make deposits. Why can I only buy $20 worth of stamps when my correspondent is in jail for years. So every time I have to spend like $5 on extra just on the fee to put the money in people come on people. Okay, I got to get the emotion going back into this story so the jail naturally is just letting me know that. Oh I don't know why you can't book your visit. You're approved here. It's a third party issue. It's got to be securus and I mean I'm spending hours every night of my life trying to figure out who I'm supposed to be calling, explaining it over and over again to people sitting on hold. I sat on hold with securus for 2 hours the other day because the jail has not put through the videos that I paid to send. Honestly, I can't believe the amount of my life that I've had to dedicate just because I decided to write a prisoner insane like embarrassing. I have to say it. This is really embarrassing on your state. I'm sorry this is for the amount of people that are incarcerated in your state and this is the level of organization I'm getting right at the start. Wow! Wow scary people. I called every single Warden every single spot control visits because I'm not accepting that after months. Okay, I still cannot book this visit. Securus says it's the jail. The one particular officer that I caught lying who's been harassing me continuously directly to me is that Nicole? Oh yeah, I've spoken to securus. They're going to let us know when it's fixed. This is of course are complete lies because it never was securus. And when I knew for sure is the day she got on the phone and kept repeating it to me like she was jamming it down my throat like I had to believe her. I'm sorry lady. In my experience if it's the truth people only say it once. And this is going on for 8 months 8 months of my life. I am trying to troubleshoot this because I just can't understand how this is not connecting hours on hold with secure is calling the jail again and now these guards are literally telling my correspondent that they know who I am and my attitude. What is happening here? What is happening here? Are you hiring juveniles to run your institution? Because we're not in a playground lady. I have a right to ask you questions about something I've paid for and cannot use again. Reinforcing she's a liar. But how unprofessional is that you're going to comment on. I'm trying to do a good thing here and you are the Steeler of joy who does that. Okay real it is Nikki. Okay so eventually I've called I even called the White House okay and I'm going to be honest with you even as a Canadian when he answered the phone White House which is how they answer the phone. By the way I s*** myself. I was speechless for a moment. I can't lie. It just felt I don't know LOL. I called the attorney general before I knew about the investigator general or inspector general. I mean I called every single place that ombudsman the ombudsman is a joke I couldn't even believe attitudes of these women in there who would want to make a complaint when that is the way you're being received people and how do you have a family and friends liaisons office and you have no civilians working in there? What so guards are going to get other guards in trouble? I don't think so. That office is a joke. Don't waste your time. They only are a buffer. They're sitting at a desk doing nothing. Waiting for someone to call and then literally passing on the lies. They did not look into what I was saying. They did not for one minute. Consider that it was not me but the officer that needed to be checked not for one second. Did they consider that and I have emails to show that they just continuously passed the lies. So I looked up the HR list for the head office of the department of corrections because it's not that easy to find a phone number that takes you away from the friends and family liaisons office when you Google it, I'm sure intentionally, and just to reinforce that one of the gentlemen that answered the phone at the head office literally asked me how did you get this number just to back that up. So now I'm speaking to I don't know the director somebody above offender operations because that Crabtree lady I don't even know if she exists. I don't know if she actually does anything. She certainly doesn't offender operate. Nothing never have. I got a response from that office. Never have. They pursued anything that I've left messages about and I've left messages because if you don't report what you hear and see then it never changes. And obviously I'm just getting the run around here wasting my life away. Trying to figure this out. Insane. So now the secretary to the head office person is actually empathetic towards me in her voice. She never criticized or critiqued the department but I could feel it. She knew this was absolutely absurd because when I finally did talk to her I had spent hours on the phone with securus till finally one of their employees 8 months later said to me the institution has to update their online visitor list. You're approved but the online list has not been updated. Eureka, I have solved the mystery. I'm thinking this is great. First I call the jail I email her too and I let her know okay. Liar here's me doing your job for you. Either you were lying to me or you really didn't know about this list. Which perturbs me because you are literally the visitor officer. So any which way you go with this this is not a good look. Why were they not updating the online visitor list because they didn't want to do the work of running the inmates to the visit and please don't question if that is the truth or not. That is 100% the truth even after I got those visits going an officer walking my correspondent literally said don't tell anybody that this is going now so we don't have to be running visits. And ever since that list got updated, that visit hasn't stopped. It's been going everyday. People have had online visits so for at least 8 months at least 8 months. No new approved visitor could book an appointment and the jail wishes pushing it off as secures's problem so they didn't have to do the work. Are you kidding me? 8 months of my life. I just pissed away, anxious emotionally stressed every night trying to figure all this crap out. Angry and all the time it was this lady lying to my face talking crap about me to my correspondent. I don't even know where she thinks she has the right to do that and they've continued to do that by the way. Okay whatever. I finally got what I've been working so hard for and I'll tell you getting the visit booked was almost more of an accomplishment than the visit itself. So what happens the jail now allows this woman who they have not held accountable for what she just did, put that in perspective, nobody saw their children or their parents or their anybodies in their lives for at least 8 months. If they weren't a visitor prior to the last time they updated that list. Do you understand how wickedly evil? That is what that's all your job is. You're the visitor officer. They don't answer their phone and they don't empty their voicemail. There's no way to communicate to them. This is a complete s*** show. So they're allowing this woman to now be the one monitoring my visit. Are you kidding me right now? This wicked witch was sending me emails about the length of my shirt sleeve. Not because it was inappropriate because it was a tank top. No other person is getting in s*** for that. I promise you no other inmate visitor has ever gotten an email from a corrections officer about their shirt length. Okay, that's pretty f****** harassing. My next visit was on her day off. So what do you think she did? She came in after her day off. She broke protocol, reviewed the visit of mine from the day before that a different visitor officer monitored and never had a problem with to send me an email about. I don't know. Maybe my bong in the background. Maybe my sleeves again. I don't know. I'm promising you. No other visitor is getting emails from officers about this. Obviously she's got a vendetta which is why the warden inappropriately should have dealt with her discretion and moved her to another spot. That would have been inappropriate thing to do. But no, he's going to let her continue to harass and badger me after she just antagonized me for 8 months of my lying to me wow wow, Yes, first of all weed's legal so there's no reason that should be a problem. Everyone there fully knows that I have multiple sclerosis because they're watching my videos and reading my messages. Nonetheless, I don't ever smoke my bong. I did one time in a video at the beginning. I didn't know it wasn't allowed. I never did it again when I sent videos. Simple as that. But it is also how I treat the nerve pain and numbness that I have from Ms. And just for all you naysayers I don't have to share this with you but I will anyway. I was on two trial drugs. One gave me pancreatitis and the other I had an allergic reaction to so be gone with you. On a Friday before Christmas my mom was diagnosed unexpectedly with stage 4 cancer. She was dead on the Wednesday. Nobody saw this coming. It was unexpected and I'm sure any person can emphasize with the emotions that came with that I had a visit scheduled already for the day that I was going up to my mom's service, but due to the timing we would be at my sister's which is halfway in about a 4-Hour drive for a few minutes right about the time of the visit so I decided to keep it because it didn't improve my spirit for the day. Of course having multiple sclerosis. I'm always smoking my bong because I'm always in pain My sister's a non-smoker so in the winter time here in Canada I sat in her backyard bundled up with my phone for the visit and my bong. And actually, as I always do, I smoked my bong off camera. However, I was still blowing smoke when I came back into view. Now I can accept that. I shouldn't have done that. It wasn't intentional. I was under a little bit of emotional pressure at that moment. I didn't have all my thinking faculties and I wasn't as careful about not doing that not intentionally. Again, it's my mom's funeral. I'm outside in the middle of the snow trying to get this in before we continue the last 2 hours of our drive. This wicked witch shut my visit down in a second. We weren't even on the visit for 5 minutes okay and she knew don't tell me she didn't know she was looking for every single thing she could do to make my life miserable because I embarrassed her for catching her lying. So naturally I got on the email and I shot her a nasty email. So what I can swear if I want to. You've been antagonizing me for a year now. Today's my mom's funeral. You know what f*** you. That's how I felt. I called you're an evil b**** and she is. But that's my opinion based on her actions. And based on that now, remember this is a non-problematic inmate. I'm not a bad person. My correspondence is only healthy and is only approved this inmate because they value my correspondents enough to stay out of trouble isn't that what rehabilitation is about??? So how is it that I am permanently removed from the visitor and phone list now from both? Am I a security threat? You have inmates with needles in their neck. Dying there right now right now right now right now you have inmates that get caught getting contraband and having sexual relations in their in-person visits that don't receive the punishment that I did. Res I'm sure I missed a lot but even right now I'm so angry. Just telling this story that I have to end this for now but we are still in this process because even though they did that to me last Christmas every single day I am trying to find somewhere in Arizona that thinks corrections should be accountable. The governors I don't know who she is. I don't believe she's real. If somebody from her office actually calls me then maybe I'll believe she's real but I've been trying to contact them for so long and all they do is keep forwarding me back over to the department of correction so I'm complaining about so that's a joke again. Inspector general has been the first person that's really taken the time and actually saw how stupid ridiculous it is 8 months no online visits were booked for new visitors. What? And that's only now though. So now we're up to about 12 months of my life. I have had to spend at least 2 hours a day at least 2 hours a day trying to sort this out all because I joined write a prisoner. They continue to harass my correspondent because I continue to ask questions that go unanswered. I don't know why they're answering to that person when I'm the one posing the questions every single person and every place has avoided me, which you know. Again, in my experience always the guilty who avoid. I'll post a part 3 once I get this inspector general report and investigation completed. On a side note, I'll also tell you this. The warden was refusing ice to inmates the other day who are being handed ice in garbage bags. In fact they were charging them for ice last year and it wasn't ice that you get in a bag. It was dirty ice out of the kitchen freezer that they were making them pay for. Bet you didn't know that. And 2 days ago, one of the officers who was going around to check the temperatures and the cells was holding his thermometer up to the air conditioner and falsifying his records. Bet you didn't know that either. To be continued. I did have time to proofread this but I will later if there's grammatical errors. I apologize. I'm using voice to text because typing is very difficult for me with my fingers being so numb the way they are. It's very frustrating. So please ignore any typos until I can proofread later. Regards Nicole but serious

Okay so I think I'm going to maybe break this up into different parts. It's all very confusing and I want to make sure that I break it down as best as possible, not because I don't you could follow but I myself struggle especially when I'm in Canada and they are agencies that are in the United States. It's a little different as I've come to really learn the hard way. So grab your tea. Put your phone on mute. This is going to at least give you a firsthand account of my lesson of the cool temperatures in the South. So let's begin with a quick paragraph on how it was that I even have an association with the department of corrections in Arizona. I myself studied if that's what you would call it. Corrections in college and was a correctional worker in Toronto, Canada for 6 years early 2000. The reason this is important is because that gives me a more of a level playing Field when it comes to officer transparency and knowing what officers are expected to do. See most people as we know a uniform says something and they are going to take it as truth or they're really not going to know. Know how to locate the truth if they think it's a lie or their lives are so busy with children and work and everything else that they can't navigate to treacherous system. That is the Arizona correctional system. (Side note, I always wondered why agencies like the department of corrections always have all of the information in correctional worker jargon. What normal person has? Any idea what most of that is going to mean so that's on you. The other thing is that I know being a form of corrections officer is something that the public doesn't usually know and that is that they are just people and they are liars and lazy just like anybody else can be. They have bosses and they are still or should be accountable. Also, working in that field. You eliminate the fear that the general public has of people wearing costumes like those. I am not afraid to call a warden's office because what do I know the warden is just a man. Nothing more, nothing less. Now I am a joy bringer that is who I've been my entire life. If I am not bringing joy to something, I am not being true to me. However, I was out of time where bringing Joy around my own area around my own environment was seemingly just bringing me pain at the time. I wasn't going to let that deter me though. I found another way to bring joy. One thing I know for sure is that when you have nobody outside of the jail regardless of what you've done, it's a very lonely time and a letter about anything can mean the world to somebody. It's not for me to judge if they deserve it or not so I decided I would write a prisoner. Funny enough. I looked at the list of states I got to choose from. They kind of haven't set up like a dating app. It's really strange. I felt awkward. However, I chose Arizona because I thought that's far enough right? Lol not kidding. I wrote two inmates. I received a letter back from both and subsequently I decided to write one. I don't have that much time. Two separate correspondents would be too much on my plate and I didn't want to disappoint anybody when I chose them. I literally went to the area on the site that said inmates not receiving mail and clicked on the first person. Okay here we are. I was unaware of tablets that have entered the correctional system since I left it. It's funny how something is a contraband anymore when it can make you money and if y'all aren't looking into it, it is an atrocity what you're allowing your correctional system to charge people and the hell that they are put through and these people on the outside are not criminals. Not that it should matter but you know 82-year-old mothers sisters children. So after about 2 months of writing, I decided to move to the tablet I suppose. So I signed on to the JPay securist there's a million sites. One jail can have three different businesses that you have to go to one for visits. One for phone calls. It's absolutely ridiculous. Anyways, I'll try not to get off on a tangeant like that again. And we continued correspondents like this for several months and when I'm talking correspondents the things that I would send was Google news or neat things that they've discovered. Or I've found out Friday nights. I used to do trivia night and I literally would put a dollar for every question that they got right and you know what they loved it because every mind desires to be challenged. Everybody likes to play games and everybody likes to win something. So I had some trivia questions that I made so that everybody could get a dollar because that's what I like to do. At no point is there criminal conversation. I personally have never sent any conversation that was sexually inappropriate because I know the guards are all going to read it, especially if they know what the person looks like and they particularly like the content and I'm not one to share that with everybody. So after a few months I decide. Okay let's go to the phone call as seemingly the correspondents was doing me good as well I applied. I got approved. But wait. I put money in the phone part of securus where we communicate but my correspondent cannot call my phone. The landline that I had just put in for this reason. So now I'm troubleshooting on my end. Trying to find out why this is. I'm calling the jail. I'm calling visits. I'm calling the control office. I'm asking every single place that I can find that somebody will answer the phone. Trying to get them to help me understand what's happening here. Now to me I don't know why you're going to over complicate things. Why am I communicating via email and what not on the tablet through securus but you have an entirely different company. Even though securus offers phone plans, I c solutions that does your phone account. And I don't get it. But I know here in Canada a simple piece of information like that there isn't a co working in the jail that wouldn't know IC solutions. 3 months I can't get anybody to explain to me what's going on. Literally any one officer only had to say to me. Well now that you're approved. Did you create an IC solutions account? That's all they would have to do that one thing and I could have figured it out from there but no how I eventually got it. Was the volunteer teacher overheard my correspondent complaining to somebody about it and just happened to have a phone number in their wallet. That was the right one. 3 months that took that doesn't take anybody aback, especially when you're talking about a place that's literally housing. Human beings, think about that. Okay so finally we're on the phones now. And keeping in mind this is a short explanation but I dreaded having to go home and start calling places to try to figure this out. It was time consuming but if I thought the challenge to get the phone going was going to be time consuming. I was not ready for what it was going to take to simply sign up for a visit. And I'm going to have to put this on the next post because I'm exhausted. Just telling you about all of this part. So I'll end this where the next one will start l start I applied for an online visit after I troubleshooted myself into figuring out the phones from Canada???? I get approved for the visit which subsequently is through securus. So securus is going to do the visit but Ic solutions gets the money for the phones. This is stupid. So what do you think happened when I went to try to book that visit...... Yep here we go again part 2 to follow. And if you write it to the bottom. Thank you for reading this. It validates everything I went through just to be able to have a platform to tell people what I went through if that makes sense. And since I'm finding a really hard to find any accountability in Arizona, I got to get this out of me or it's going to haunt me every night.