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Christopher Sholly is a victim of abuse in the
Florida Department of Juvenile Justice system.
02/05/06 Hello..Im christopher sholly
Christopher Sholly Diary entry:
Hello..Im christopher sholly..Yes I am home now
and well. I want to tell a little about what I have been through in
life.. so people can know of the dangers out in the world.
I have been through many DJJ (Department of
Juvenile Justice) places and have been to prison.. i have been
beaten and beaten, locked away in cells that were cold enough to
make my feet, hands and face blue..
I have been there where many kids are at
today.. the things that I had to go through were not right, I did
not, not ask to be treated the way that I was. It was not right for
them staff members and C/Os to treat me the way they did. It was
wrong. no person deserves to be treated like that..
i have seen many things as well.I have seen
many things in DJJ and in DOC. the way the staff erase or turn off
the cameras. the way they beat up the kids, the way they take the
kids mail and throw it away , the way the staff would take pictures
of kids mother and rip it up and throw it away..
yes its true that they do this.. I have seen it
with my own eyes.. And i have had it done to myself... I remeber one
time when I had my release papers ripped up right in front of me..
it tore my heart apart to see that..I
have also been charged with false
charges.. I remember when a staff restrained me and beat me up, and
then went and said that I had hit him.. thats what they do, they go
and beat up the kids and then they say that the kid hit them by
swinging back or something. just to get the boy in deep trouble..
when a staff member finds out that you are
about to go home, they will pester you and mess with you and beat
you up to make you so angry and lose your chances of going home..
they get a thrill out of seeing you not be able to go home and be
with your family..
the staff abused me phsicaly, emotionaly and
mentaly.. they will do anything just to make your life horrible..
the staff dont care if you go home or stay there.. they want you to
not go home.
I have been jumped by staff, and by the other
inmates.. you know why the inmates jumped on me.. it was because the
staff made them do it.. they didnt want it to happen.. but they knew
that if they didnt do it, that they would get beat by the staff...
I have seen and experienced so much.. I have
had nightmares of past moments. of staff hitting me over the back
with a metal chair A staff hit me over the back with a metal chair
when I was on my hands and knees on the floor.. it hurt so bad. then
he kicked me in the head.. it hurt and it felt like my life had
ended when I was in those places.
The way I was treated made me feel unalive. it
made me feel like I was trapped in a spiders web.. I was the victim
in the web ,trapped by the sticky web, the web was the place I was
at,, and the spider was the staff.. thats the way I felt..
I could feel the hate and the danger around
me..i knew that at anytime a staff could walk up behind me and just
kick me in the back or punch me while I was walking in line.. and
that did happen to me.. and to others...
I understand and know what it feels like to be
treated like a slave, to be tortured and feel like you are in hell.
I have been through the hell on earth....
I will have more to type..but that is all for
now..~christopher sholly
02/05/06 "...you can just feel that something
bad is about to happen"
I am Christopher Sholly:
you know how when you are in a place and you
can just feel that something bad is about to happen, well could you
imagine having that feeling for 4 years ?.I did have that feeling
for 4 years, and it didnt feel good to have that feeling, because
most of the time the bad thing was going to happen to you.
I remember names of staff at GHA, and at OYDC,
and at Arthur G. Dozier School, and in DOC. First of all, the prison
facilities that I was at are: Indian River CI, Lancaster CI, Lake
Butler, and CFRC.. Those are all the prisons that I was at, and boy
did I see something in those places.
The names that I can remember of Staff at GHA
that abused me and other youths there are as follows: Mr.Jones,
Mr.Choice, Mr.Williams, Mr. mactear, Mr Baynard, Ms.Dickie, Ms.
hopkins, Mr.Blue, Mr.Joseph, Ms.Thompson, and many more that I
cannot remember at this moment..
there was so many that would beat us and make
us do PTs for hours and hours, while wearing sweat pants and sweat
shirts, in 90-100 degree heat, when we did PTs (physical
trainning).we would have to do it for hours, like 3 to 5 hours, if
we messed up, we were taken to a back room and then beat up.. and
restrained, then we were thrown back outside and made to PT again
over and over again.
I remember that one time I was throwing up from
doing so much PTs, and when I stoped to bend over and throw up, I
was kicked in the Butt by a staff known as Mr.Choice. I fell over
and rolled on the ground, still throwing up, and then he came over
and yanked me up by my shirt and tossed me on the ground. I was
small at the time, and this man was huge.. he was yelling at me and
telling me to keep on Running around the field.. I was having
trouble doing this, so he got even madder and started to kick me in
the side..
He then called another staff over and they took
me into the back room with wieghts in it, and they threw me around
and punched me and threw me up against the wall.. and then They put
me into the LAWN MOWER..(note, meaning of "lawn mower": They bent my
legs over my back, all the way until the tips of my feet touched the
back of my head. One staff was pulling my legs, the other pulling
on my head. The position they put me in was widely called "the lawn
mower".) it hurt so bad.. I passed out and they woke me up and told
me to get outside and start running again..
they told me that if I told anyone or called
abuse that they would beat my ass and hurt me. the other staffs name
was Mr.jones.. when we did Pts, there was no breaks, or getting any
water, or using the rest room they even made boys with Asthma do the
PTs.
we were running up and down a big steep hill
one night and I seen a boy named Tyler Clarry stop at the top of the
hill and start to throw up and try to get his breath, and then I
seen Mr.williams kick him in the butt and made Tyler fall over and
roll all the way down the hill, getting skined up, then Mr.williams
beat him up right outside.
we were the only cottage outside at this time
of night, so he wasnt worried about being seen.. So he just beat
Tyler up and then made him run again.. there was alot of kids being
beat up that night, including me.. they made me stand up in the
corner all night until the next morning..
I fell over while standing in the corner,
because I was so tired, and you know what happened to me, I was
yanked up, and thrown up against the wall and beaten.. after that,
the staff choked me..his name was Mr.Joseph.. then he made me go
into the bathroom, and he got a small bucket and filled it up with
cold water and threw it all over me, in my face and all over my
body.. he did this like maybe 5 times,,5 buckets full of water,
freezing water, thrown all over me..h e then made me clean up the
water on the floor, and then he made me stand in the corner again,
still all wet and cold, and very tired..
I had to go through so much, so much pain..I
wanted to just die sometimes when I was in there.. I felt that if I
died, I would escape HELL and go to heaven, and all the pain would
go away...the pain that they gave me lasted for a long time, and it
is still with me, in my memories and in my dreams, and phsicaly....
this is all that I will write for now,, but I
will be back and I will tell more.. thank you.
~Christopher Sholly
Excerpt of Christopher Sholly Diary #1,
provided by mother Dawn Chase
I was sent to Greenville Hills Academy. I was
sent there for violating probation, and I violated by trying to
commit suicide, I am 13 years old at this time. I regret trying to
do this now.
When I got to Greenville Hills Academy, I was
beat up by the Staff that worked at the cottage, Merit Cottage. I
have no idea why the staff beat me up. I was scared and confused.
I did the only thing I could think of, I kept my mouth shut and
stayed to myself.
Well, the next morning I got up and seen some
bad things. I seen one boy, by the name of Tylor Clarry, being hit
by the staff. I seen other youths being abused also. All throughout
the day the staff messed with me, called me a white piece of sh**,
and poked names and cussing at me.
After about 4 days on, another boy kept trying
me, so we fought. After the fight, the staff grabbed me and dragged
me into a back room, no camera's there. It must have been a weight
room cause there were weights in it. The two staff threw me up
against the wall and got in my face and said, "why the f*** did you
fight, this is my house and I don't take no sh**!.
"They both were yelling at me and spit was
flying into my face. I was not worried about the yelling, I was
worried about them beating me up. After they were done yelling at
me, they threw me on the floor and jumped on my back and held me
down. They grabbed my arms, legs, and hands, and restrained me.
They bent my legs over my back, all the way
until the tips of my feet touched the back of my head. One staff
was pulling my legs, the other pulling on my head. The position
they put me in was widely called "the lawn mower".
It hurt so bad, I thought I was going to pass
out. After they were done, the staff punched me and kicked me a few
times each. All the while, I was laying on the ground crying and
pleading them to stop. But they wouldn't stop. All thoughout my
days at Greenville Hills Academy, I went through hell. This that I
am going to write below are the things that the staff used to do to
me and others there:
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The Staff used to beat us up everyday.
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They used to only let us have around a
minute of two to eat our food.
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They used to make us wait a very long time
to use the rest room,.
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If we used the bathroom on ourselves, the
staff would make us wash our clothes out in a five gallon bucket
and no gloves with cold water.
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Most of the kids there used the bathroom on
theirselves, because the staff would make us hold it for so
long. I, came close to using a number 2 on myself at school.
The staff wouldn't let me go to the bathroom. I begged her for
like ten minutes and she finally let me go to the bathroom.
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The staff used to mentally abuse us as
well.
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They would call us names, and make fun of
us.
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They used to tell us that we youths would
never be anything in life.
2005- Jackson County Jail, 17 years old,
awaiting transfer to Adult Prison
I was transferred to Aurthur G Dozier because
there was two or three boys over at Dozier that were flight risks,
and they needed to be put in a more secure facility, so I was
transferred with ALL MY CREDITS EARNED THIS TIME, and only had till
January of 2005 till I was to come home!!!
Of course now you all know that NEVER
happened. I started seeing abuse and called my Mother to let her
know what this place was doing, and she called in all the abuse.
Pretty soon I had staff on my back and constantly harassing and
provoking me. I was falsely accused of hitting Mr. Wilson, and sent
to Adult courts.
I want to get on with MY life, I want to finish
High School, and I want to go to college to be a LAWYER!!!
WHY?????????? WHY??????? Can't they let me just go home?????
I was told by my public defender that there was
nothing he could do to defend me!!!
My mother had more then enough evidence proving
that all this is in retaliation for reporting abuse. I just turned
17 on April 23,
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I've never been able to play sports in high
school
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never been to a dance
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have not seen my home in almost 4 years
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and now I am sitting in Jackson County
Correctional Center Adult Jail for something I did not do!!!
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I've been beaten physically so much in my
time in custody by total strangers, and very big men, then I
have ever endured.
I can't take anymore of this, and sometimes
feel like I just want to do my self in!! This is NO way for anyone
to live.
I got into an argument with some adult and got
in a fight with him in the same cell block, crazy man. Now I'm
sitting in Confinement till Aug 2!!! Please someone HELP ME!! MY
mom now can't even help me cause they sentenced me as an Adult.
I'm not an adult, I'm just a kid, I want to be
home with my family. I'M SO SICK OF ALL OF THIS!!!
HELP ME!!! HELP ME!!! PLEASE GOD HELP
ME!!!!!!!
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