A pre-apocalyptic viewpoint ~

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday, October 6, 2012

A pre-apocalyptic viewpoint ~

The Meaning of Controlled Chaos ~ A pre-apocalyptic viewpoint

Isaiah 42:7

To open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

A desperate life is being created –

There is a disgusting lack of emotion, compassion and generosity for incarcerated persons in prisons. A compassion that borders on fair and consistent treatment according to existing laws, standards of care or policies and not personal emotions or religious viewpoints while preserving both life and safety for those incarcerated within our prison walls.

Although large in numbers they lack a constituency base at the family level thus making them invisible to those elected to represent them in government. Enduring spasms of brutality within the prison systems and being oppressed as well as repressed by those in power, they have no voice in their future or well being as if they have forfeited their existence as human beings.

There daily lives are impacted negatively ranging from basic shelter needs that includes overcrowded spaces, access to toilets, water and shade, heat, cold, wind and sunlight, healthcare and food, etc. making them most vulnerable to illness and eventual death.

These conditions make life extremely burdened for these prisoners. They have endured and will continue to endure these harsh living conditions as long as their will and hope holds out for change and a return to reason.

It neither my viewpoint to coddle them or allow them more comforts than is required with basics but when these amenities are denied, there is needless suffering of human beings at stake. Frustrated and angry, they feel they are being treated unjustly and are being pushed into a corner where they will eventually run out of room to run and consequently face their punishers. Ironically the only thing they are asking from those in control is to be treated fair and treated right while they are here inside the penitentiary.

A Silent Crisis is forming –

There are those in state government who would try to make this premonition as one that is based on fear and speculation. It must be made clear this is not a personal war between the prison system and the public or media but rather a conflict between justice and injustice of those incarcerated persons left in the care and custody of these prison administrators that are not seeking any means or positive ways to improve prison conditions but are instead creating the conflict that makes desperate men and women act out of fear and commit violence.

Everyday of the week, these incarcerated persons are being exploited in every plausible or likely way in a most inhumane but considered legal manner. Their rights, dignity and wellness are being trampled on by bureaucratic actions showing deliberate indifference to their needs while incarcerated and kept confined according to those sentences ordered and served.

There are no signs of letting up on these brutal and hateful strategies that are designed to shift the eventual blame of prison management failures towards the prisoners thus publicly relieving them or guilt and exonerate those in power to do what is only expected to be done when the violence erupts and threatens corrections employees, other prisoners and most of all, public safety.

It is fair to say that we are quickly approaching a new threshold of intolerance and hate that will soon begin a new dawn filled with fire, smoke and destruction of property as well as harm to those living within the prison setting. It has been said in the past that desperate men will resort to violence when there are no signs of hope or chance that their voices will be heard and their abuse, neglect and torturous conditions are mended through fair corrective practices.

When desperate men will say “no more” and revolt –

There are now sketchy and conflicting reports of institutional aggression on the rise within prisons. They have erupted in small sporadic groups of violence throughout different states. There is a fear that the real mass conflicts will appear before it is too late to do anything about stopping it thus causing harm to many individuals including correctional officers caught in the middle of this widespread problem.

There will be nonviolent protests or demonstrations at first and ignored by the government. It is likely these words of warning will be discarded or hidden away to avoid conflict with those who seek fair government and justice for all people.

There will be allegations dismissed and further create a wrongful spirit of mistrust and miscommunication that will elevate the tension even higher than it already exists.

They will start to demand action soon and ask with as much respect possible to be treated with humane basic care and dignity like it was before these changes took place.

They know that they have rights and they will express them loudly through their own means.

They know they have the ability to give the message strength where it needs to be heard.

In the end, they won’t be able to handle it anymore and come to a point of desperation and commit dastardly cowardly acts against innocent such as hostage taking to make their point with elected and nonelected government officials that refused to listen to them in the madness.

They will join together, band as one regardless of ethnicity, religion and race. They will close this pact with unity and demand they get the attention they deserve to change this hopeless situation.

They will carry out the sick and ask for help and renew their concerns that the medical care or delays, lack of reasonable standards of care including food preparations and portions they are getting is causing acute malnutrition and for some starvation.

They will demonstrate how this maltreatment caused needless suffering and amputations of limbs and organs that could have been saved if medical treatment had been provided.

History will again record these acts of desperate men who sought peace and resolution in a nonviolent manner by trusting those in power to be fair and give them their undivided attention and response.

However, the writing on the walls have illustrated a resistance to change thus giving them only one option left and that is to resort to some kind of violence when their voices were unheard and ignored as their pleas for mercy fall on deaf ears and blind folded eyes.