Solitude and the Holidays

It would be an irony to say or to agree that people are usually socially adaptable and are often well entrenched or integrated into family circles, social groups and other closely knitted clans that stimulate their need for social interactions that keeps alive their cognizance, their spirit and their activities. In other words, they need the social interaction to feel alive. Therefore, it is common sense that if one sleeps alone, lives alone and is basically enduring life alone, he or she is shutting out all social activities that constitutes living and resembles more like death. When people are given the opportunities or are cast into solitude, they are capable of ending life as they knew it and contemplate on death more often than before. They develop thought patterns of ending life rather than enjoying and celebrating life. Staying in touch is the key to allow others to be with you and intact appropriately to provide that human contact that stimulates the opposite of an eternal loneliness.

Care for the Delusional & the Delirious Geriatric Prisoner

Everyone who has worked inside a prison has noticed several things that are impacting their ability to work effectively and supervising the geriatric prisoners inside the joint as their numbers are becoming larger and larger putting more burdens on staff and space to treat them some with round-the-clock care. They have seen a growth in the numbers of the elderly in wheelchairs, the number of transports for dialysis, the space modifications for American Disability Act (ADA) compliance and with mandatory sentences and stringent parole terms, this is translated into more people dying in prison due to “natural causes” as their needs are taxing the systems with excessive costs in treatment, medication and after-care that is very expensive. (1)

A Rite Passage – Honor amongst Takers

In today’s society there appears to be honor amongst takers and dishonor for being caught in the act. The quotation of “Being a man of my word” carries no extra meanings as it is another means to illustrate to those who surround you that you are setting the bar of political correctness a little bit higher than before for the benefit of the public’s eye, no meaning anything else but to put on a show. These takers are making sure they are not spending the wrong kind of energy and also making sure that everyone knows they are pimping their body and soul advertising it is for sale to the highest bidder. Today’s politicians fall from grace quickly whenever they are exposed of being mortal and corrupt but getting them to fall from face is extremely harder. Listening to their chief of staff and using discretion in the way they do business and how they live, their lifestyles is declared to be a better part of valor.

A Paradigm of a Paradox inside Prison

A Paradigm of a Paradox inside Prison

Imagine you work inside a prison somewhere in the United States where the mentality of civilization is to “lock em up and throw away the key” kind of attitude and you live there with your friends sometimes sixteen hours a day for five days a week thinking how this job has influenced your morals, your beliefs and your feelings towards other human beings shackled and stripped away from their humanity to serve their time and crime behind the razor sharp barbed wire that traditionally designs deep chasms between the free world and the prison world with nothing except insanity in the middle to add to the confusion of what is right and what is wrong. In other words there exists an “Etiquette Hell” that is very fundamental but not consistent in meaning or purpose.