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, September 11, 2012

Apathy in the Grand Canyon State


The use of the electronic media to avoid face to face confrontations allows them to be insensitive, arrogant and bolder in their actions and evade those looking for an honest answer. Their responses are based on practiced diversions / distractions that provide no information but rather a dead end to the request made for more public information on these matters. Hiding behind their press agents and media liaisons, they escape the stressors of state business by hiding, pretending that “all is good and life is good” and that under their guidance and leadership, “things are normal and “all is well.”

The current events inside Arizona have changed dramatically since 2009. The fact is that government, under the control of a Republican governor and supported by a Republican majority in the state legislature, has spewed hate and dissent among their constituents by dividing the communities and not listening to their crying voices when it comes to state service related policy-making in educational, healthcare and basic human resource services as well as state public safety priorities such as law enforcement, child protection and prisons.

Today every agency under the direction of a politically appointed puppet by Janice K Brewer prepares politically-correct engineered media responses that have deliberately disregarded public opinion or concerns. As a result, they are deliberately disengaging its constituents and failing to address their problems. Education, child protection, health care and the treatment of the mentally ill are at the forefront of such concerns but are totally neglected or ignored by our elected and unelected bureaucrats or leaders.

Our state citizenry, embattled and engulfed as well as overwhelmed by their own financial difficulties and burdens while adding personal stress, have chosen to remain silent on many of these serious and hot issues by not contacting their legislative representatives like before as they feel perhaps like many other citizens do that their voices are being ignored. Ignored by our leadership for self interest and reserved profit sharing lobbyist that hound their office space at the Capitol and sell them their own interest in the name of private enterprise and profit makers.

Certainly, our state’s financial conditions will worsen. Our budgets won’t be able to sustain current priorities and non-priorities as the economy shows no signs of recovering. Our state leaders, the ones who were hired or elected to get the job done in a most effective and fiscal manner, are too busy for their constituents, as they engage in the blind encouragement of gluttony, entertainment and filling their own pockets with the taxpayer’s money through channeled funds and private corporations.

Thus as this spirit of apathy grows on both the inside and outside of our state, those in power currently enjoy the “good life” as Arizona slowly suffers and crumbles down a lot like Rome did back in the time when Caesar was the emperor and all fell down around them before they realized it too late as corruption and greed had destroyed everything a democratic system stood for while Arizona burned up in flames in what was once one of the best places to live and enjoy a decent quality of life.

Our state leaders are building an empire controlled by them as they invoke the fear of God through immigration and mass incarceration messages. This kind of misbehavior will surely take a huge toll on our economy, our quality of life as well as our mandatory state services as it spreads like a cancer bringing us and the state to its knees and ultimate demise.

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