Wasted Honor -- - Say What you Need To Say......: Open Letter to Janet Brewer

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

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Open Letter to Janet Brewer – Governor

When Prison Management go Flat Line - the Inmates get Angry & Bolder

It is very likely the Arizona governor and legislature will flat line the prison budget sooner than expected. It is today exceeding over 1 billion dollars a year and it is obvious the state can’t sustain such financial growth. The downsize of this phenomena is that state prison management, projects, programs and other prison related expenditures must be curtailed and draw back resources allocated over the past four years to ensure a rapid and aggressive growth in bed space and prisoner numbers.

It is time to stop this insane funding for more prison money as it has already skyrocketed past normal expectations and fiscal demands. Arizona must hold the line on spending and that includes holding prison growth flat over the next year or so otherwise politicians will be forced to admit their mass incarceration agenda has drowned the state of financial debt and insolvency,

Unfortunately, the current prison management team will make recommendations that end all forms of reform, rehabilitation and educational programs that include substance abuse and other self-improvement programs or studies. It will unwisely reduce prison expenses that will create a severe and potentially violent backdrafts on the state’s prison population and create more tension and violence than ever before. History will reflect this throughout our prisons systems.

Under current practices and laws, Arizona prisoners serve longer prison terms than many other state prison systems. That means more growth and more problems. Arizona has no intention of changing the good time law that mandates inmates serve 85 % of their sentence and will need to finance for more growth here in the next few months to avoid turning them away from doing prison time. Little effort has been placed on alternative sentencing and community based supervision.

Policy changes are pending and more efforts will be put on controlling the purse strings to avoid overspending and not meeting constitutional mandates for healthcare, food and other auxiliary services. Their utility bills, already out of control will mount and their ability to get credit on payment of such will be closely securitized by those providing the services. Physical plant and waste water resources are stretched beyond reasonable limits already and ready for failure. Prisons without utilities are prone to be set on fire out of protest and revolutionary thinking that puts staff in harm's way.

The policy changes that reduce prison expansion are critical, but without investing in our local public safety infrastructure, we will not likely occur within time to prevent a prison riot or disturbance of grave proportions. There is no current system in place to oversee internal prison related crimes and accountability in sustainable ways until it is too late and legislators will demand transparency and accountability after the fact and destruction.

The governor needs a bold agenda and the Legislative body needs to begin to take full responsibility for what is about to happen inside Arizona prisons this summer. It will be one of the most severe impacts on public safety as this will eventually be one of the most impactful issues the legislature will attempt to tackle.