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 have you been up for parole in the last 18 years?
alterer. ziggy must go before the riverbend disciplinary board to 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
you ve been at the program before? yes, sir. 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
well, i decided to turn it around, and so i would say to them, say, i got a nice one, ain t i? wow. and it became a defense mechanism, because in prison in this environment especially, if a person makes himself so easy, then those who prey on him don t it s too easy. it s no longer a challenge to them, so they leave him alone. the day after that interview, we met ziggy and higgins as they prepared to enter the disciplinary hearing. i m anxious. i m uncertain, but i ve got confidence in my inmate adviser to bring out whatever and the best defense that 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. mr. hall is charged with refusing or attempting to alter
to ditch your parole? because i m scared of getting out. you ve been at the program before? yes, sir. 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