Our unit library has been closed since the last lockdown in March. I have patiently waited for it to open up again so I can finish the book I started and also do some college research. We were supposed to go last weekend but they closed it before our dorm was allowed to go, then didn't open it for the rest of the weekend - our only chance to go because they won't let us go during the week.
The same thing happened today but with a bit of drama added. As I exited the dining hall I saw a few guys from my dorm headed to the library. When I got to the dorm the hall officer let me head out, also. Unfortunately, the officer running the library had sent the inmate librarian back to his dorm and closed the library. I asked why he had closed it when it was our scheduled day to go; his reply was that it was ten minutes till the time it was supposed to close and we could go with the other "stuck-outs" on Sunday.
In theory this sounds good (except the part about closing early; that's dumb and lazy), but all the inmates know that stuck-outs are only run once the stars align just so. So what we heard was that we could not go to the library. I wrote a grievance and encouraged the others to do the same, but doubt it will make a difference. It doesn't seem fair that only some inmates are allowed to go to the library while others are not.
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