The recent hunger strike in Pelican Bay SHU unit is a chess game with real lives at stake. The King, Governor Brown must win this game in order to maintain power and domination over the prison population. His Queen, the prison director must protect him at all costs. Hired guns such as the Knight and Bishops provide the leadership in this struggle to outwit the other side and gain compliance or domination over the prison grounds and its contents. The Rooks will be placed in harm’s way to draw the fight as the expendables, the Pawns or correctional officers will be used against the expandable prisoners of the other side strategizing a win that will resolve the matter at hand for perhaps once and for all times.
On the other side there is no King or Queen as the pieces have been removed from the board by mere power and authority of the governor and his men. The opposition must strategize how to overcome this leverage acquired by the other side by stacking their numbers and fueling their spirits with pure motivation to win this battle of survival and guts alone. They too have the required Knights and Bishops but their communication has been impaired to some degree thus their wisdom may not be either heard or understood. Their Rooks and Pawns are ready for the fight as their numbers of Pawns exceed the number of pieces allowed on the board squaring off in disproportionate fashion.
Thus while one has no king or queen, their numbers are high in Pawns that are willing to die for the cause. These Pawns, the expendable useless Pawns are thrown in the way of certain demise and domination in this most malevolent game. Counting the pieces there is no mystery why there are so many Pawns provided for this spirited encounter between black and white. After all one must try to use a Pawn to capture or remove a higher piece on the board in order to gain the advantage in power. The white pieces are representing the good and the black playing the evil role.
Altogether, 32 pieces are supposed to be stacked on the board to engage in a war or battle of the wits with the winner claiming domination over the other. This won’t be the case in Pelican Bay for it is almost for certain other prisoners housed elsewhere will join as the fuel ignites other Pawns inside other prisons.
The odds are that the rules of a legitimate chess game will not be followed as many more Pawns will join in the game without an invitation from anyone but do so to join the reason against the King, the Queen and their army of pieces designed to control and dominate the environment.
The strategy is divided into four categories – time, sacrifices, tradeoffs and capture. Such a strategy works inside a prison. Each action has a separate degree of risk or boldness involved adding the mystic approach of playing this game. Advantages are sought as both sides use tactics to impact leverage of the outcome. One side is offensive while the other is defensive in nature but can at any moment seize the opportunity to become the offensive player taking advantage of a key mistake or tactic. The awareness to such mistakes is the key to changing the approach of the strategy. Using unguarded pieces to lure the opponent into the ruse of the game, one must be careful at all times.
Waiting to see the announced resumption of the hunger strike on September 26th makes me wonder just how many Pawns Governor Brown will have to take down and capture before he is overwhelmed by public pressure to stop the madness. My only advice to Governor Brown is simply this, review the management mistakes made at Attica back in the 70’s and remember that although you won’t be using bullets and gas to gain control, you will have to prepare your staff for extensive medical emergencies that may takes lives as they succumb to your order to surrender and stop the hunger strike.
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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.
I use sarcasm, satire, parodies and other means to make you think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
I use sarcasm, satire, parodies and other means to make you think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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