By Allison Gatlin
The Californian
SOLEDAD, Calif. — From a 106-square-foot space playfully dubbed “Bunker No. 1,” a pair of Soledad Correctional Training Facility inmates are scuffling with federal officials to be accredited as the nationwide Veteran Service Office for former soldiers now incarcerated.
It’s an uphill battle, Edwin Munis, a 10-year inmate of the facility, assures.
The Soledad CTF Veteran Service Office began in 2004 under the tutelage of Munis, who has been in prison since 1997, and Michael “Doc” Piper, who will only say he has been incarcerated “for a long time.” Both are Vietnam combat veterans classified as 80 percent service-related disabled and equally disgusted with a system that only guarantees them a 10 percent pay out of their military benefits because of their inmate status.
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