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Prison Boot Camp

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"Nobody knew who might be HIV positive.  The state had recently enacted a law, intended to subvert discrimination, that prohibited the staff from even knowing who's blood might be lethal. We'd been bleeding on each other since the first day on the bus, but never was this terrifying risk presented in such a dangerously obvious fashion - but still we were ordered to press on, with the drill instructor's boots on our backs to make us fall into the blood if we were strong enough to avoid it on our own." Sometimes everything just goes completely wrong.  When I married my first wife I was on supervised release from federal prison, where I'd spent over two years behind bars for failure to pay tax on some of my firearms.  My supervised release officer had denied me permission to get married because he claimed that it constituted a 'legal contract' that I was prohibited from entering into.  I knew that was an excuse. The truth was that the FBI, who I'd