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Being in the medium security facility under the special housing unit conditions for, quote, protective custody, which is what the warden there determines it, really makes you wonder. You get one phone call every 30 days. You get no visits.

You are locked in 24 by 3, Monday through Friday. And then on Saturdays and Sundays, you're locked 24-7. I was in a 9-by-6 cell.

I drank water from the top of my toilet that had metallic sediments falling at the bottom of the cup and settling. It had a metallic taste to it. Food, you get three meals a day, being that breakfast is 90% of the time inedible because it's either, like, stale, frosted, like, awful cereal quality and, like, a banana that's half black and full of gnats flying all over it.

Milk that the carton smells like onions because they store the milk in the wrong, you know, it's just tough. So I lost 35 pounds in the shoe, which I say is a great diet plan, but not the best mental health diet plan, in 41 days. And I also read 26 books.

So, like, you have to take it into account. But that very first day was already hard. But the hardest day was my very first night in the shoe where I was put in the shoe in a vacuum and then on top of that vacuum denied my inhaler, my asthma inhaler, which I have an emergency inhaler for years.

I'm asthmatic. And, you know, you put me in a room with no window, no ventilation, and then you deny me my inhaler for 24 hours. You know, it's tough to imagine.

So it was tough, David. It was not easy. So when you got it, so you were initially assigned to a medium security placement.

But then I think they did they change that to a lower security designation for you? And then what were the circumstances in which they decided that the shoe was for your own benefit? Oh, I was I was designated to FCI Ferriton, which has a medium and a camp. And obviously, then that was determined that I would serve in the camp, camp being the lowest possible. You're technically not an in-custody inmate.