Otis Gyrie
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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The elevators, like the doorways, were controlled by the guards and monitored by cameras.
I would press the single wall button and eventually the doors would open.
I'd step inside, look at the camera, and speak my destination into the camera microphone.
Sometimes there would be an inmate or two in the elevator.
I never stood with my back to them.
I would always stand facing them, my back to the door, staring them down, and for the most part they would lower their eyes to the floor and try not to look at me.
I was instructed never to enter an elevator if it was occupied by an inmate that intimidated me, but I never backed down.
At first I acted brave because I was unsettled, but didn't want to show it.
After a while I felt sympathy for the men more so than fear of them.
The ninth floor was divided up into five pods, each containing five double-occupancy cells.
My habit was to rotate which pod I would visit on a daily basis, taking the weekends off.
Even though I was educated not to make friends with the prisoners, I have to admit that I looked forward to the visits as much as they did.
Sometimes heavily medicated and by far the calmest group of men in the facility, they were, save for a few odd ducks, among the nicest people I'd ever met.
So it was, day after day, week after week, month after month, that I would follow the same routine.
There were occasional variances on some days due to fights or unrest among the inmates in general population, but one thing never changed.
Every day as I entered the block, I would look over at door number three and wonder what lay behind it.
I asked a few times and was told the infirmary, and after a while stopped asking for fear that someone might become suspicious about why I cared so much.
Truth was, I was just a curious person.
Once, I even asked volunteers if there was a chance that I could get a tour of the infirmary.
Perhaps then visit the men back there.
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