LETTER FROM OSIAN IN PRISON LLYTHYR ODDI WRTH OSIAN YN Y CARCHAR

Wednesday 09. December 2009

Dim ond gair byr i ddiolch am yr holl gefnogaeth yn ystod y misoedd diwethaf ac am y gwaith di-flino gyda'r achos.

Diolch o galon (letter in full with translation below)

Mae'n 'grim' yma. Mae'r bwyd yn uffernol - tatws, moron, lunchoen meat a
greifi pob dydd, dwi'n dechrau colli pwysau'n barod. Dwi'n cael fy
nghloi yn fy nghell am 4 pob dydd, tydi hynny ddim yn ddrwg ond am y
ffaith bod yr awdurdodau yma wedi gwrthod imi fynd i'r llyfrgell ar ddau
achlysur "swyddogol" am ddim rheswm - mi ddudodd un screw fel esboniad
"where do you think you are the Hilton" *

Mae'r carcharorion eraill yn fois iawn-ish, ti'n gwybod yn syth i biedio
camu allan o lein neu mi fasa ti'n fwcd..

Mae'n dueddol o 'gicio-off' yma pob dydd rhyw ben, efo'r sgowsars yn
ceisio ennill goruchafiaeth ar grwpiau eraill o Fanceinion neu Leeds
a.y.b. Mae rhywun yn dueddol ar adegau fel hynny i lyncu poer a diolch i
dduw bod chi ddim yn cymysgu efo bois felly. **

Mi fyddai allan dydd Mawrth 8fed Rhagfyr .. peint yn y dafarn gyntaf
dwi'n gweld ym Mangor dwi'n meddwl

Yn gyffredinol mae pob bob dim yn iawn, dwi'n cadw fy ysbryd wrth
ail-ddarllen llythyrau dwi wedi dderbyn... ac edrych ar rhai o'r hogiau
sydd yma am 12 mlynedd wrth feddwl "waw, oleia mai dim ond wythnos arall
sydd gen i"

Tydi "Group 4" (y cwmni preifat sy'n rhedeg carchar Altcourse) ddim yn
poeni rhyw lawr am y carcharorion, ond ar ddiwedd y dydd be ti'n disgwyl
wrth gwmni preifat sy'n poeni mwy am elw na phobl.

Cymunedau Rhydd nid Farchnad Rydd

Osian

Letter from Osian in Prison

Just a word of thanks for all the support during the past months and for work in support of the cause.

It's grim here. The food is hell -potatoes, carrots, luncheon meat and gravy every day, I'm losing weight already. I get locked up in my cell at 4 every day, that's not bad except for the fact that the authorities here have refused permission for me to visit the library on two 'official' occasions for no reason - one screw's explanation was "where do you think you are, the Hilton?!

The other prisoners are OK-ish, you know at once not to get out of line or you'd be fucked.

It kicks off here sometime every day with the scousers trying to gain supremacy over other groups from Manchester or Leeds and so on. At such times you tend to swallow your spit and thank god you don't hang out with blokes like that.

I'll be out Tuesday 8th December...a pint in the first pub I'll see in
Bangor I think.

Generally everything's been Ok, I keep up my spirits by re-reading the letters I've received...and lookiong at the lads, the lads who'll be here for 12 years and thinking "ow,at east I've only got another week"

Group 4 (the private company which runs Altcourse prison) don't worry to much about the prisoners, and at the end of the day what do you expect from a private company that thinks profit is more important than prisoners.

Free Communities not Free Market.

Osian