When I was in custody at the farm "Elmwood minimum security camp",  I was trying to eat my breakfast one morning in the cafeteria when  a correctional officer named: J. Ebling  approached me & told me to move to another table. No sooner than I was reseated,  he snapped at me again to move to yet another table.
Then he tells me to stand up, and then sit down again in the same spot. Then he asked me if I was finished eating yet, when obviously I had barely started.
He then started shouting: Are you finished? Why are you taking so long? I simply, answered him, that it was because he kept  telling me to move. Then he shouted, "That's it, You get the hell out of here!"  He then grabbed my breakfast away from me & threw it away. BEING FED IS AN INMATES RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE!. A correctional officer may under no circumstances withhold food from an inmate for disciplinary purposes. The ironic thing was, I hadn't done anything whatsoever to him. He asked me a question, and I answered it simply and honestly. If he couldn't handle the answer, then he shouldn't have asked the question.
 
I have witnessed other inmates being deprived of food by correctional officers on 4 occasions over a 12 day period. ( Each occasion appeared to me that the correctional officer was being just trying to be a  bully, & that they were acting out their own anger and personal frustrations, on non aggressive inmate victims.) I have also witnessed inmates in the housing units eating toothpaste from being so hungry.   From my own personal experience , it seemed Ebling was having a bad day, perhaps because someone else had ticked him off earlier, he chose me to pick a fight with.

This was only one of many examples of inmates being abused by correctional officers at the Elmwood correctional facility, in Milpitas, California. and the Main Jail in  San Jose, California.  Even though this site is named: Elmwood-Jail.com, its focus will be on both Santa Clara County adult  jail facilities, and also Juvenile Hall.  

 

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