Yeah, I know. They basically betrayed me and I think the fair thing to do would have been to have pulled me aside for a chat, right at the beginning of this mess. That unfortunately did not happen because they did not respect me enough to tell me the truth (when Sara and Joanna decided they felt too uncomfortable to offer me support). They know how obsessive I was over Laura in the past, so they sensed these ladies would be my newest targets, which is why they were keeping us apart at their request. And I still cannot believe TWO pretty basic text messages that I sent in 2013 caused my beloved caregivers to turn against me and land me in prison 3 times. Well, that and all the gossip. Even if I did breach the client / worker boundaries, there's such a thing as fairness. It would not have gotten so out of hand had they been honest. They realized this all too late.
They stitched me up and then I got more and more frustrated over the loss of these two women. The assistant director even conned me to declare away my tenancy in March and I sent dozens of emails, but nobody really responded to them. That isn't to say they were all bad people at the agency, but a lot of the outreach workers could not offer a great deal of commentary on my situation for obvious reasons, so I felt like nobody was really on my side. They probably felt I had a right to be angry to an extent, yet they could not back me up. Employees generally cannot intervene.
Jail sucked, for sure. However, it was actually kind of relaxing in prison. The first night center was in the D Hall, but I ended up in the E Hall after the first weekend there. It's a protection wing, full of sex offenders. They doubled me up with a con. He wore red being that he was doing a sentence. It was due to the spacing that we shared a cell. They generally never put blue coded (untried) inmates together, but he didn't smoke so that's why we were co-pilots for a month. Once somebody got a transfer, they put me in a cell, but I was alone for several weeks until an older man come in.
You only got recreation if it was raining, as they usually just offered you exercise in the yard. The pool tables are in a separate hall. There is things on offer like PT, the library and classes, but I stopped going to education. They wanted you to write poems in Scottish instead of English, which I did not enjoy.
By the sound of things, he was set up too. He claimed his stepdaughter **** on him due to the fact he disapproved of her boyfriend and everything had been OK, but he kept things from his wife about her because she was using drugs, having underage sex, etc. He got arrested where he was accused of touching her friend. While on bail, he handed in money to a school and he got nicked for 'indirect' contact, or something.
I'll have to get my ESA and DLA up and running again. That should hopefully be quick and easy. It's annoying when they treat it as a fresh claim. Too much filling in boring forms full of hard-to-answer questions.
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