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.

 

Controlled Chaos ~

Controlled Chaos

 

There appears to be a method to the madness within the Arizona Department of Corrections today. This is based on the fact that no matter how much evidence is released regarding agency flaws and shortcomings, the administration at the top refuses to change, alter or re-direct their efforts to comply with public pressure and compliance with the rules of law.

 

It appears they would rather face mass litigation and expensive lawsuits than improving their own manner of incarceration and those associated custodial responsibilities outlined within their own policies and procedures. It is this challenge that gives them purpose and direction in this environment of controlled chaos and warfare.

 

Thus it is interesting how this strategy of organizational warfare against the media, the public and those families of those persons incarcerated is being waged by one man and one man alone. His methods are clearly outlined in pre-existing strategies that have come to light and outline his final goals.

 

Up to this point the strategy has been clear by those paying attention to the lingering disease of flawed performance and noncompliance with rules of law. These men in control have created a chain of command where those appointed in uncovered positions follow their lead but constrained by influence and fear of retaliation.

 

They have acquired this false sense of loyalty by the way the administration created a false sense of participation in all matters at hand but never allowing a “groupthink” product to develop independently without just cause or permission at the top.

 

It is obvious they have used a divide and conquers strategy through the process of segmenting their forces and / or employees. This allows opportunities to make quick decisions and avoid resistance by the internal culture as they have accomplished breaking the entire agency into smaller micro sized groups that pretend they can run or operate on their own but are in all actually totally dependent upon command from above.

 

They do this to give them a false sense of positive spirit [morale] so that they will continue to work hard to accomplish and operate the command directives but on paper and communiqués they appear to be acting on it alone or with the authority to do so independently.

 

This strategy is a pure deflection of will power and responsibility / accountability in case it has a blow back effect and liability / plausible deniability becomes an issue. It also gives the group more time to think about themselves rather than the leader and more about the group’s mission and needs.

 

Since the director has pitted the agency against the media, the public or incarcerated persons inquiring, he has started a war against them and turning it into a crusade with the identification of them [the media, public and families] being the “enemy” and make them see that to beat this enemy is survival to the mission and success of their goals.

 

So how did they persuade subordinates into fighting this war against this “enemy?” They used the traditional elements of war to establish control while creating chaos along the way.

 

Strategies –

 

They declared war on the media, the public and the families of incarcerated persons identifying them as the enemy –

 

1. Use the turmoil and serious incidents to fuel energy against losing presence of mind and purpose of this fight keeping the employees in line and controlled.
2. Create a sense of urgency and a “use versus them” ideology to keep them focused on the “enemy” and not internal issues that might come up during this chaos.
3. Turn this into a crusade to make them think less about themselves and think more of the agency or groups involved with.
4. Separate and divide employees into smaller groups e.g. unions, geographical representation, etc so they are easier to control.
5. Trade space for time ~ avoid attacking or counter attacking the enemy by playing passive games of political correctness and limited dissemination of information.
6. Lose battles but not the war – give small concessions but never relinquish control.
7. Control the dynamics – press releases and limit information that reveals internal control mechanisms.  
8. Control the blame factor – sacrifice those below to satisfy the craving for justice through the employee disciplinary process showing zero tolerance to mistakes.
9. Negotiate for change while advancing your ideologies in secret and out of sight.
10. Prepare an exit strategy for every critical event or press release.
11. Make it difficult to determine fact and fiction – misperception and vague responses.
12. Control perceptions of reality and control them to keep employees focused on their own problems rather than external events.
13. Take the high moral ground – righteousness in the name of public safety or prison wellness and the safety of all correctional staff working inside prisons.

 

Hence we have arrived at their final goal – to destroy from within and control the chaos completely without resistance or hesitation from the inside. They have taken what they wanted and destroyed those who didn’t want to join them. Then when the time is right, they move in to dominate the situation and disguise aggression as passiveness that can be justified in the end and denied that it ever existed.

 

Their goal is to cause maximum chaos and provoke aggression. This will likely result in a desperate overreaction by the prison population but will be quickly quelled by forces needed to retake control of all the prison elements temporarily lost by the rebellion or acts of terror.

 

In the end, they counter terror with organized terror (force) and justify their acts with the needs to balance safe and secure prison management that was initialized by internal forces and guided by external political motives looking for new ways to stabilize the prison industry.

 

 

A letter to Arizona legislators and the Governor (mailed today)

RAMIFICATIONS FOR POORLY RUN PRISONS

 This letter is written to highlight some of the critical impacts poor prison living conditions e.g. overcrowded with temporary housing accommodations, poor medical care and an overall neglect of well-being and denial of social and educational achievement can have on a systems failure to perform according to expectations set by policies and procedures written for safe and secure prison management.

In the end, it will impact high financial costs to return to better standards and sound prison operations. There are wide social and safety implications to such poor investment of our prisons. At a time when the government is contemplating providing additional growth for our prisons in the budget, it is important to understand the ramifications of such action taken.

In the area of overcrowding and temporary housing accommodations, the Arizona Department of Corrections has engaged into a double bunking concept since 2007 that impacts encumbered living space and reduces availabilities of toilet and shower facilities creating hostilities and altercations for the use of such facilities..

Although the agency has officially announced the existence of empty beds, these beds are not permanent beds but rather beds installed in existing space where there used to be single bed space in all custody levels including maximum custody. This type of arrangements increase staff endangerment and provokes continued criminality behaviors creating more tension and violence that may eventually create a large or mass disturbance resulting in loss of life or excessive loss of state property.

 

Criminal activity within prisons can be a factor that contributes to overall unrest and offending and rather violent behaviors. These conditions enhance further committing of crimes within the prison system such as gang attacks, assaults, theft, drug taking, and other measures needed to survive the incarceration period. Overlapping factors include increased drug and substance abuse, mental health issues, medical care and systemic disputes with care or treatment.

The system’s main concern should be the added financial costs tacked onto incarceration because of this criminal activity that stems from poor housing assignments and other associated security concerns. The costs for providing this additional risk factor is included in rising health costs, security costs on crime prevention and intervention as well as restoring peace to the environment after disturbances and riots. This is not spending taxpayers’ money wisely and should be addressed.

There is anecdotal and empirical evidence that demonstrates that poor housing conditions impacts both social and educational achievement levels. This is an essential element of the agency’s responsibility to prepare the felons for release back into society and communities along with a better chance of not returning to prison after doing their time.

Impacting the health costs and rising medical concerns are based on internal factors revealed inside prisons today. The highest risks to health are associated with heat, cold, damp and moldy conditions within the system. The type of risks to health stemming from these hazards include respiratory and asthmatic conditions, infections and other chest conditions, coronary disease and strokes, as well as fractures, burns, and a range of psychological and mental health conditions that can be exacerbated by poor conditions

It impacts an increased report of illnesses and is primarily associated with respiratory, dysentery, headaches and fever, weight loss and poor breathing problems associated with the poor air quality living with tobacco smokers and other toxics in the air.

Naturally this links these health problems will also link with mental health problems increasing the costs of those treatment requirements as well. There has been significant attention drawn to the high rate of suicides, homicides and “natural deaths” within the Arizona prison system. There has been a considerable discussion regarding the relationship between poor housing practices, conditions and mental health.

 

It is recognized there are a range of factors that impact an individual’s well-being and that some are more relevant than others. First off, there is the stress and anxiety of living in such violent, over-crowded and ill kept housing conditions that trigger mental disorders or the very least; exasperating existing mental illness of those already diagnosed mentally ill making those victims of treatment deprivation and attention to care standards. Realistically, this impacts their mental health conditions deeply and only worsen their mental health conditions that exist and result in high suicide attempts and self- harm incidents.

 

 

 

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