{"id":448,"date":"2014-08-19T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/19\/the-barrett-brown-review-of-arts-and-letters-and-2\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:26:12","slug":"the-barrett-brown-review-of-arts-and-letters-and-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/08\/19\/the-barrett-brown-review-of-arts-and-letters-and-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Barrett Brown Review of Arts and Letters and Jail: We\u2019ll Take the Hole SHU-bang"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One day, my red-headed Mohammedan cellmate, D, and I were being led back to our cell in handcuffs after one of our thrice-weekly showers when we noticed several paper bags sitting outside our door that hadn\u2019t been there earlier. A brief but spirited exchange with the guard revealed that these were packaged foodstuffs an officer had confiscated from D after having determined through some mysterious federal calculus that his possession of them constituted \u201choarding,\u201d which is not permitted. Actually, the snacks in question had been saved up from past meal trays to serve as D\u2019s breakfast on those days when the staff failed to bring him his morning repast before sunrise, as they\u2019re supposed to in accordance with their own religious freedom regulations, as this was Ramadan and D is, in his own way, a very observant Saracen. Naturally he was upset about this; it\u2019s hard enough to refrain from so much as drinking water throughout the day when one is being held in a non-air-conditioned cell throughout a Texas July without also having one\u2019s backup breakfast seized by infidels.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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One day, my red-headed Mohammedan cellmate, D, and I were being led back to our cell in handcuffs after one of our thrice-weekly showers when we noticed several paper bags sitting outside our door that hadn\u2019t been there earlier. 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