Lockdown - Again!

Well, this is unexpected. Lockdown. Only three months after the last one. What a bummer.

Honestly, I'm surprised that it hasn't come earlier. Over the past couple of months there have been some major busts on this unit. One guy had 12 packs of tobacco and just over $1000 in his cell. The tobacco was being cut and package in cigarettes to be distributed around the unit.

Another gut was caught in the hallway with 40 packs of tobacco. He worked outside and had the tobacco dropped off in a ditch in front of the unit, He carried it all the way into the unit in his jacket before being stopped on a whim.

But the one to top them all and send us on a lockdown was pure idiocy. A guy tried to mail $3700 home in a peanut better jar. First, that is a staggering sum of cash, several months work for some. Second, a peanut butter jar?! C'mon, isn't that more than a little suspicious? Even if it's sealed, who in their right mind sends peanut butter home?

So this guy's deficient mental faculties (probably part of the reason he's in prison) caused 1130 men to be locked down and searched. Thanks for the johnnies, semi-daily showers, and 24-hour confinement to my cell.