The Cursed Alaskan Cruise

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William Mersey
Doing Time
Published in
5 min readNov 26, 2024

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Her name was Miss Miller. If her first name was ever known to me, I can’t recall it now. She was a good-looking fifty-something head shrink running the psychology department at MCC federal prison.

MCC was a shithole facility so run down and embarrassing to the federal government that they shut it down in 2021. Small consolation for me who served almost all of 2019 at a facility that housed almost twice as many inmates as it was designed to hold. And that’s not counting all the mice and waterbugs that invaded our lockers at night and ate our commissary.

photo by author (my home for 2019)

The administration that ran the prison was about as inadequate as the facility itself. Prisoners (including me) were kept behind bars too long because counselors were too lazy or incompetent to keep up with their paperwork. Officers fudged logbooks so they could sleep or surf the web when they were supposed to be checking up on inmates.

Rehabilitative programs were almost non-existent. We inmates were human rubbish held in a human warehouse for end-of-the- liners (longtime prisoners in the last year of their incarceration), local…

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Doing Time
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William Mersey
William Mersey

Written by William Mersey

"The spry old guy on a bike." New York Greenwich Village ex-hippy. Daily Beast, NY Daily News, Daily Mail, Independent contributor. I've been around the block.

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