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Who do risk levels help?

Stewart Burton, volunteer contributor
February 6, 2024

I was a Category A when I first started my sentence. Deemed to be High Risk as I was a foreigner in a Chinese Prison. 

My charges, drug trafficking and armed robberies, didn't help much.

After a year of fighting the system and the Triads, I was promoted to AA status and moved to the hell hole that held the worst. I was now one.

3 guards had to escort me anywhere. I never spoke to anyone for months. Always completely isolated. It must have cost a fortune to protect everyone from me. 

I've been out 30 years now. Never went back inside. 

Spent my whole life trying to help others. 

Now I need help. I'm struggling. 

Divorced, about to lose my home, daughter died 2020, I had cancer in 2021, a heart attack in 2023.

I need help, I need support. 

But now I'm Low Risk. My mental health is really bad, but not bad enough. 

I'm not a risk to me or anyone else. 

Now I'm too Low Risk.