Personal Narrative: My Life At Oak Ridge

November 20th 1990, was the day I started my life at Oak Ridge. The justice system deemed me and my friend Prash to be criminally insane and had sent me to this prison for criminals who are deemed mentally unstable. I took a life of another because my friend Prash told me that person was a terrorist who conspire to harm me. This “Criminal Insane Building” sounds like a frightening place, my lawyer told me it is the only maximum-security health care centre in Ontario and that they would take excellent care of me and my friend. When I entered at Oak Ridge, I saw that this prison only held male prisoners. In front of the building located the services rooms that would be part of everyday life in this place, such as the dining room, medical room …show more content…
Every single day inmates received treatment. The treatments would be consistent, and simple, nothing too difficult. The physical recreation activity were also a part of rehabilitating us inmates. From time to time, the psychologist and try some new practice on us to see if there was any significant results. The first therapy I went thorough was called “work and recreation therapies.” It consisted of three divisions: occupational, vocational, and recreation. For occupational therapy, I would engage in some form of work that and member of society would do. Task included furnishing fibers, weaving rugs, and repairs. The items we created were put on displayed by the administration, which felt good (Bazar, J. L. (2015). The vocational services allowed us inmates to have a sense of purpose by giving us task that allowed us to have familiarity to employment. For instance, we inmates would be able to learn basic computer skills. Also, there was also a general store called “The Pit Stop” that was located in the Vocational Service area we learned skills such as selling goods, bookkeeping and monitoring inventory. The last section of this therapy is the recreational therapy. As mentioned before, Oak Ridge has provided inmates a sport facility for us to use, and this played a major role in recreational therapy. There was plenty activities I participated in outdoor activities such as football, handball, and baseball and I also participated in indoor recreational activities such as dance and theater (Bazar, J. L. (2015). So far it has not been so difficult, working with the staff member is simple enough if one does not disrupt the peace and everyone can get along well. The only problem is, people keep asking me who Prash is, even when he stood beside me when they asked the