Silence Sucks in Adventures From Prison

In the Kingdom of douchebags, the smart man suffers. Things here have been stupid. Last week, a “hater” douchebag left contraband in his clubhouse (TV room) which was then found by a C.O. Not good. Seeing this was the third time this has happened, all of the TV rooms on our floor were locked until the rule breaker turned himself in. Obviously this led to much finger pointing and a few shouting matches. When things get like this, I tend to stay in bed and read. Everybody knows I don’t get involved in prison politics so I’ve really got nothing to worry about but since I have a knack of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, I play it careful.
A couple of days pass and no one steps up. The whole floor misses the Alabama vs Clemson game, which really doesn’t go over well. I’m not a football fan, but my friends are and when they heard it was one of the best Championship games ever played they reacted like the family pet had died. Tuesday at lunch someone steps up and turns himself in. At the same freaking time, another douchebag – in what I can only assume was a protest for the TV room closure – snapped off every MP3 jack from our computers.
The way our anti-theft system works on our players, the owner has to log in with his player every two weeks to keep it running. No log in, no player – no jacks, no log-in. Of course when this happened I only had two days left on my player, so I now have no music. All of the audio from our TV’s also requires a player to listen to, so that means no TV either.
Ironically, the TV rooms were opened up only hours after the guy tuned himself in, but without the jacks for most of us it will be a short lived victory. The last rumor I heard was that the punishment for vandalizing the computers will be a delay of one month before fixing them. If you have a radio you can still get TV sound, but after the MP3 player arrived most of us got rid of the old tech, so we are well and truly screwed.
Because of two douchebags, 300 guys suffer. It’s so annoying. All we want to do, is just make it through our time without bothering anyone. I read, write, and watch movies. That’s about it except for bocce and exercise. 3 out of 5 of those are better achieved with my MP3 player. Now, I’m stuck for a month in silence through no action of my own. To me this is the worst part of prison. I already had issues being punished for things I didn’t do, prison has just made that worse. I know in this setting that group punishment is the easiest way to manage situations like this. Hell, I’ve facilitated punishments like this when I was an R.A. and Camp Director.
It still sucks.