if you didn t want to make parole, could you say, i don t want to go? i don t know if you would understand, but a convict saying that he s not ready to get out, i d feel like i would be ostracized. is that it? yes, sir. the lieutenant s decision comes swiftly. guilty of the charge of refusal, attempt to alter a drug screen, recommend five days penal segregation, assess a fee of $25, $4 fine. recommend a job drop. you want to appeal this? yes, sir. yes, sir, i don t think the $25 is appropriate. i can suspend that. i will suspend the $25. okay. and richie would like a little time to get his affairs in order before he has to go away for five days. no. everything i heard and saw, he attempted to alter the results of a drug test. i was given five days in solitary confinement, and he
he is allowed to use an inmate adviser when facing the board. ziggy has chosen fellow unit six inmate mark higgins. i did this for a reason. it was because i m coming up for parole here in less than three months. i m not ready to get out. i don t have anybody out there to help me find a home. i don t have anybody out there to help me find a job. i don t have emotional or any kind of support. what we want to try to do then is minimize the punishment that might be involved on tampering with a drug screen. we re going to offer proof that you weren t afraid of the drug screening per se by having you tested immediately. the next morning, ziggy faces the disciplinary board. discipline board chairman lieutenant tommy vance sits in the position of judge. how do you plead to the charge? guilty or not guilty? mr. hall pleads not guilty. any questions? yeah, richie, how many times
determine his punishment. he is allowed to use an inmate adviser when facing the board. ziggy has chosen fellow unit six inmate mark higgins. i did this for a reason. it was because i m coming up for parole here in less than three months. i m not ready to get out. i don t have anybody out there to help me find a home. i don t have anybody out there to help me find a job. i don t have emotional or any kind of support. what we want to try to do then is minimize the punishment that might be involved on tampering with a drug screen. we re going to offer proof that you weren t afraid of the drug screening per se by having you tested immediately. the next morning, ziggy faces the disciplinary board. discipline board chairman lieutenant tommy vance sits in the position of judge. how do you plead to the charge? guilty or not guilty? mr. hall pleads not guilty. any questions?
i m anxious, i m uncertain but i have confidence in my inmate adviser to bring out the best defense i could have. higgins is basing ziggy s defense on a loophole having to do with his prior participation in a substance abuse program. but ziggy s fate rests in the judgment of the disciplinary board chairman lieutenant tommy vance. he s charged with refusing or attempting to alter a drug test. how do you plead the charge, guilt with, not guilty? mr. hall pleads not guilty as a part of the policy for the substance abuse class. any drug testing is to be kept confidential. so this issue is out of the area of the disciplinary board. results should be kept confidential. is that what you re saying? yes, sir. that would be the case had mr. hall took the test. he didn t take the test. with his first line of
defense shot down, higgins pivots to explain ziggy s actions. ritchie, how many times have you been up for parole in the last 18 years? twice. what s happened each of those times? they ve continued me, because of something i ve done. why would you purposely try to ditch your parole? because i m scared of getting out. you met the parole board before? yes, sir. if you didn t want to make parole, can you say i don t want to go? i don t know if you would understand but a convict saying that he s not ready to get out, i d feel like i would be ostracized. is that it? yes, sir. the lieutenant s decision comes swiftly. guilty of the charge of refusal, attempt to alter a drug screen. recommend five days of