LETTERS FROM PRISON: PETER SCHWARTZ 092424

September 24, 2024
Barbara,
Hello, and how are you? I’m now at USP Atwater in California. I don’t really know what the
place is like though because it’s been on lockdown ever since I got here, on August 19, 2024.
So, if you were wondering – that’s why I’ve been unavailable on the computer. Apparently, a
mail room officer died from contact with fentanyl. The people involved were removed
immediately, and so this place is ambitiously getting revenge on everybody NOT involved! Go
figure. So, clearly, being sentenced to 14+ years in Maximum Security prison isn’t sufficient for
somebody like me, who’s innocent of everything I’ve been charged and convicted of… I need
to do most of that time in the SHU, AND ON LOCKDOWNS! I’ve been in the SHU and on
lockdown since May 8 of this year. I’m so tired of this B.S.!
Hopefully this lockdown doesn’t last too much longer. They finally gave me my property.… or
what was left… after I’d been here for a month. I didn’t even have toothpaste for the first 10
days I was here! I’m DEFINITELY having a harder time than the other “J6’ers”! Even…
ESPECIALLY … the frauds, Feds, snitches, Antifa, etc. are doing much less time in MUCH
better prisons and circumstances! Although pretty much every J6’er was “overcharged”… I’m
actually INNOCENT! So it makes sense that I’d get THE worst prison, and third longest
sentence, right? I’m exhausted, Barbara. Just exhausted.
Any person that’s lived for 50+ years, such as I have, has been through hard times. That’s
life. And, though it often feels like it; prison isn’t the worst thing a person can live through. I’ve
lived through much worse. But there’s a significant difference: Other things I’ve lived through
always had; A.) Hope, an B.) Healing… no matter how bad it was.
But I don’t have either of those things. Every “hope” I’ve had has been nothing but lies. I
mean – the Supreme Court even overturned the charge I got 170 months for!… back in June…
but here I am! Still in a Penitentiary. Still on lockdown beyond just the normal agony of prison.
It’s an ongoing, never ending wound. There can’t be healing until they stop injuring me. (not
physically.… that might actually be better.) but far, far worse than lack of healing is the lack of
hope. I still believe in salvation in the afterlife. But not in this one. Not for me. What if I get out
and do nothing again? This isn’t the first time I’ve been victimized by the law. Nor do I believe it
will be the last.
The United States has 5% of the world’s population, but it has 25% of the total people
incarcerated in the world. Think about that! It’s human trafficking – leached off of the taxpayers
money. The Legal Industry is a sick tool of this country, and it’ll never change.
Well, sorry for all my communications here recently are doom and gloom. It’s just what it is
though. There is no hope in this life. At all. Only the anticipation of more suffering and the hope
of relief in between suffering. Hopefully yours are bearable. I know you suffered too. Differently.
But suffering nonetheless. I will pray for you. Pray for me.
Sincerely,
Pete Schwartz
#28815-509
USP Atwater
P.O. Box 019001
Atwater, California
95301
P.S.
Self-portrait on the other side of this page is surprisingly accurate. I’ve lost a lot of weight and
am under 200 lbs now. And that’s what I look like now.