ADOC policies and procedures

Wasted Honor -

Carl R. ToersBijns is the author of the Wasted Honor Trilogy [Wasted Honor I,II and Gorilla Justice] and his newest book From the Womb to the Tomb, the Tony Lester Story, which is a reflection of his life and his experiences as a correctional officer and a correctional administrator retiring with the rank of deputy warden in the New Mexico and Arizona correctional systems.

Carl also wrote a book on his combat experience in the Kindle book titled - Combat Medic - Men with destiny - A red cross of Valor -

Carl is considered by many a rogue expert in the field of prison security systems since leaving the profession. Carl has been involved in the design of many pilot programs related to mental health treatment, security threat groups, suicide prevention, and maximum custody operational plans including double bunking max inmates and enhancing security for staff. He invites you to read his books so you can understand and grasp the cultural and political implications and influences of these prisons. He deals with the emotions, the stress and anxiety as well as the realities faced working inside a prison. He deals with the occupational risks while elaborating on the psychological impact of both prison worker and prisoner.

His most recent book, Gorilla Justice, is an un-edited raw fictional version of realistic prison experiences and events through the eyes of an anecdotal translation of the inmate’s plight and suffering while enduring the harsh and toxic prison environment including solitary confinement.

Carl has been interviewed by numerous news stations and newspapers in Phoenix regarding the escape from the Kingman prison and other high profile media cases related to wrongful deaths and suicides inside prisons. His insights have been solicited by the ACLU, Amnesty International, and various other legal firms representing solitary confinement cases in California and Arizona. He is currently working on the STG Step Down program at Pelican Bay and has offered his own experience insights with the Center of Constitutional Rights lawyers and interns to establish a core program at the SHU units. He has personally corresponded and written with SHU prisoners to assess the living conditions and how it impacts their long term placement inside these type of units that are similar to those in Arizona Florence Eyman special management unit where Carl was a unit deputy warden for almost two years before his promotion to Deputy Warden of Operations in Safford and Eyman.

He is a strong advocate for the mentally ill and is a board member of David's Hope Inc. a non-profit advocacy group in Phoenix and also serves as a senior advisor for Law Enforcement Officers Advocates Council in Chino, California As a subject matter expert and corrections consultant, Carl has provided interviews and spoken on national and international radio talk shows e.g. BBC CBC Lou Show & TV shows as well as the Associated Press.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

ADOC policies and procedures

Whenever we read the websites of governmental agencies we always find links that show their policies and procedures. Looking at the basics we find that objectives are shorter steps formulated in an incremental manner to help agencies meet their goals. For one particular public agency, the Department of Corrections, public safety motives its policies. Then as we level off their perspective on this concept we move on to those other reasons for performing to those expectations that result in a safe and secure prison environment, sound custodial practices of those inmates incarcerated, productive measures to allow inmates to be prepared for the release into the community and further motivation to follow state laws and regulations related to safe practices and efficient training programs.

Glancing at one such policies, one can only suspect that the primary goal is to attain substantial compliance with such policies that exist for those purposes stated above and how they are evaluated and reported to the Director for any action necessary to improve their services or methods of operational effectiveness to justify their funding and their purpose to the public and chief executive of the state.

It appears however, where there are incompetent humans in charge of ensuring compliance, these policies are usually communicated ineffectively and seldom understood thoroughly enough to provide the intended purpose or goal of the policy. As a result, policy is usually communicated ineffectively and seldom understood thoroughly by most of the targeted individuals that include managers and subordinates.

Distraction from established policies and procedures can quickly create and become a new standard of operating and essentially evolve into a different practice that was intended to be the practice or procedure as written upon conceptual and visionary thinking. Although contrary to those written guidelines contained within the policy written this metamorphosis takes place often and results in inconsistencies noted during these audits.

Ever since the horrific prison escape from the Kingman prison, the agency has focused on its readiness, standards of security awareness and effectiveness and staff being compliant with those security policies in place to prevent another such disastrous event. Today, I am unsure just how much of that goal we have accomplished and how much more work is to be done to be where the policies and procedures developed wanted the agency to go.

Today, I have proof there are just as many "flaw" inside state prisons that resemble those in the Kingman escape but won't release them for I need to articulate the comparison to show how badly ADOC follows its own policies, ignores the faults and continues to operate like they rogue agency they are.