Morgan Godvin
7 min readApr 26, 2020

Email about BOP Incompetence. August 7th, 2017.

The incompetence of the BOP is on full view during the COVID-19 crisis. I have been reading through the emails I sent from prison. I assure you BOP incompetence is nothing new.

The faulty fire alarms, mentioned briefly in this piece, went off multiple times a day for months. They caused seizures in dozens of women, sometimes multiple times a day. When I asked why the fire alarms caused them seizures, the most common response was because they had a traumatic brain injury as a result of violence. The BOP responded with an utter lack of urgency, it continued for months, causing…

Morgan Godvin

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