Julie, I understand the logic behind this; it makes sense. I'm trying to limit the amount of record-keeping—and the officials can certainly weigh in on this—because there are a lot of interactions that happen in a penitentiary. You're walking by, and they ask a question or they need a lighter. It's whatever it might be that happens through that. Every time you do that, do you have to make a record of that? It seems to me it flies in the face of what you're trying to say. What you're trying to say is that the meal hatch is not your meaningful human contact.
If that's what you're trying to say, then maybe we need to change the language and not be restrictive on correctional services so that every time they have contact that way, even though it may not be part of that meaningful human contact and may be for some other minor purpose, they don't have to keep a record of it. It would be very cumbersome to do it that way.
What you're asking for makes sense, as long as “I need my smoke lit” doesn't mean they have to write it out, or whatever it is.
Yes, I shouldn't smoke, and that's a problem.