This is the third installment in the Brewbottom saga (and the first
story I ever wrote).
LETTER PERFECT, ADDENDUM
by
C. Lakewood
IT IS THE THIRD DAY FOLLOWING THE ABRUPT ARREST AND RE-INCARCERATION
OF NATALIE BREWBOTTOM, NOW EX-WARDEN OF HONEY POT CORRECTIONAL
FACILITY FOR WOMEN. (FOR THE STORY SO FAR, SEE "BREWBOTTOM" AND
"LETTER PERFECT," BOTH WRITTEN BY THE NOTED PENOLOGIST, JOE DOE.)
AN E-MAIL MESSAGE HAS JUST ARRIVED AT HONEY POT FROM THE STATE
CAPITAL.
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To: Peggy Pigton, Acting Disciplinary Officer, Honey Pot Prison
From: Holly Smith, Aide to the Governor
Re: Prisoner 555-58-03483-A
It was a pleasure to speak with you yesterday, concerning prisoner
Brewbottom. You were quite correct to point out that each time
she bribed a guard should be treated as a separate offense and
sentenced accordingly...consecutively by all means. (For sentences
on multiple crimes to run concurrently is an affront to justice.)
Unfortunately for Natalie, this will mean a really extended stay
behind bars. If, for example, she committed this offense only once
a week during the 6 weeks or so she was incarcerated earlier, she
would be facing additional time of 3 years or more. (And she has
confessed, remember, that she did it "often.") Of course, good
behavior on her part could reduce the time significantly, but I'm
afraid she has a naturally willful and arrogant personality that
will keep getting her into trouble. In any case, you must determine
the frequency with which she committed these offenses. (As I have
mentioned, we would grant full transactional immunity to anyone
testifying against her.)
However, I am happy to tell you that the Governor has agreed to
give you the interim appointment noted in the address line above.
And I am confident that, within 6 months, it will be made permanent.
I trust you will take a personal interest in Natalie's well-being
while she serves her time.
With that in mind, I make the following suggestions:
1. For the past 60 days, her diet has been quite unlike what
she is likely to get in prison, and I'm afraid she may suffer from
constipation as a result. I think it advisable, therefore, that
she be given a large, soapy enema at least twice a day. I am
sending you a few retention nozzles, in case the prison has none
on hand.
2. She has complained that the delousing fluid used there is
quite irritating to her vagina (though I suppose, given her current
circumstances, I should begin calling it her "cunt.") In any case,
a single dose of it causes her "cunt" to become swollen, to
lubricate constantly, and to itch maddeningly for some 8-10 days
afterward. I realize that you must keep the prisoners vermin free,
but I hope you will not have to delouse her crotch more than, say,
once a week. I also believe she would be more sanitary if her
pubic hair were permanently removed. Accordingly, I am sending you
a heavy-duty epilator and a supply of a highly recommended herbal
hair inhibitor. She should be completely free of pubic hair in
perhaps 8-9 months.
3. Please continue to give her a full schedule of hard labor
and "community service" assignments. She is task-oriented, and
too much down-time would bore her.
4. During her brief tenure as warden, I know Natalie had been
determined to improve race relations at the prison. For instance,
after she learned that C Block held only Oriental women, she was
making plans to transfer in some Caucasians. I think that she
should have the honor of integrating C Block single-handedly.
(Please make sure her cell-mates are appropriately chosen.) After
perhaps a year, you can evaluate this experiment and decide whether
to add any other Caucasian women to C Block...or just to leave well
enough alone.
5. It would also be in keeping with her liberal social notions
if her "off-duty activities" were supervised primarily by manly
black guards. I do hope that refusing her the use of any sort of
birth control device will help curb her salacious nature.
6. I had been worried that the large backlog of Disciplinary
Requests she accrued during her 60-day tenure as warden might pose
a problem. I was afraid this would result either in her receiving
a dangerously severe amount of corporal punishment or in her being
punished less than she actually deserves. Neither alternative is
acceptable. I am also sending you, therefore, some new electrical
equipment and full instructions on its use. Properly employed, it
can cause the same pain as a sound strapping, but without the risk
of nerve and tissue damage. You can use it as often as you like to
discipline the uncooperative. It has a variety of applications, as
you will learn.
7. And, finally, I am concerned about how this whole affair
could tarnish Natalie's reputation, embarrass her colleagues, and
distress her relatives. I enclose some papers for her signature.
Once you return them to me, I can take steps to legally change her
last name to "Beerbutt," liquidate her assets, and begin creating a
new identity for her. I'm afraid, however, that this means you'll
have to "process" her all over again from scratch. I apologize for
the extra work this will entail.
Since Natalie and I are cousins, I am of course very much
interested in monitoring her efforts to acclimate herself
to her newly-restored "proper position." Please continue
to send me those interesting videotapes, and I'll also look
forward to a full set of new "Posture" photos each month.
Give my best to Warden Sorrel as he resumes his job, now that
the 60-day hiatus that was forced upon him has ended.
Holly Smith
H_Smith666@StateMail.gov