An email from Frank Smith about prison contraband and MTC?

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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Sunday, March 25, 2012

An email from Frank Smith about prison contraband and MTC?

Today's news from Indiana: Corizon employee prison smuggling alleged

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FROM:Frank Smith BCC:toersbijnsc@yahoo.com Message flagged Sunday, March 25, 2012 7:41 AM

Dear Friends,

One of the problems with the for-profits, both operators and subcontractors, is that they pay so poorly, have so little benefits and so neglect background screening and adequate training, that they usually wind up with a majority of unfit staff. They constitute a long parade of temporary employees with marginal aptitude, very little investments in their jobs and a critical real or perceived need for money. Individual professionalism is often seen as a liability by those worried about the bottom line.

A pack of cigarettes inside might sell for $100. Once an employee succumbs to that temptation to make a day's pay, they're "hooked" as a result of compromising themselves. After that, they frequently will bring in drugs, cell phones, even weapons and escape tools.

While no prison can prevent all contraband from getting in, an example of how bad it is was seen in Virginia. The state had technology and a trained dog that enabled it to find cell phones. So it shook down all the state pens and the one private pen within Virginia. It was operated by GEO Group. It found more cell phones in that for-profit than in all of the rest of the state institutions combined.

Last May, I interviewed a murderer in the Mohave County jail in Kingman, Arizona. He was being held for trial on escape, kidnapping, robbery and hijacking charges. He was awaiting extradition to New Mexico to face federal death penalty charges for killing an Oklahoma couple in order to get their truck and camper.

He'd previously done 15 years in Pennsylvania and was doing 30 years for attempted murders in Arizona. He told me that they were real prisons, with little chance of escape. On arrival in Kingman, however, he saw it was so obviously insecure he said he actually felt obliged to escape.

I knew from other unpublished sources that he'd used a cell phone to help him escape from the Kingman for-profit prison.

So I asked him, "Were there many cell phones in the MTC prison?"

"Frank," he said. "There were more cell phones than pay phones."

You get what you pay for. One way or another.