Correctional Officers working with Zombies ~

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

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Correctional Officers working with Zombies ~

Correctional Officers have often been mistakenly put into the monster genre. It comes with gross misunderstandings and a lack of comprehension just what it is they do behind the high walls and razor wired fences. Basically, correctional officers have been enlisted by society and the criminal justice system to be the main predatory species watching other predators lawfully discarded and cast away by society for crimes committed.

Since the mass incarceration epidemic, there have been more subversive writings about correctional officers being monsters that are capable of torturous and cruel behaviors. When you tell the story of how this developed the truth gets lost in this novel and many misunderstand the human nature of their existential plight as keepers of the gate. Many agree that the world has gone completely mad. Criminal activity is running rampant and out of control. There appears to be only one solution to this problem and that is to lock them all up and confine them in a hell hole forever. However, in this mentality of mass incarceration, this epidemic has left none untouched as family and friends suffer while officers struggle to keep up with the pace of growth and complexity of human masses huddled in the darkness ready to strike back at those that watch them constantly.

Both sides have a survival handbook. It is much like the werewolves fighting the vampires in an episode of Twilight only the correctional officers are the werewolves and the prisoners are the vampires sucking life out of everything they touch. It is not a crime for vampires to kill one another especially if they are among the unliving. The dead are part of the culture that must be sacrificed in order to keep on living but the capture and devouring of an undead may bring them immortality. Sadly, the risks of the undead becoming victims of these vampires’ increases daily as the number of evil doers grow beyond anyone imagination over time and lengthy prison sentences into this dark world.

Thus this war between warm blooded fleshed humans categorized as the undead of the government has established a conflict with cold flesh eating zombies spreading a bacterium that causes eventual decay of one mortal existence that will never be resolved without violence. Correctional officers must contain and capture these unliving beings over and over; bringing back the same unliving or zombies they had before. A one time mortal, after spending a few years inside prison these mortals become the unliving and prey on each other in this game of survival in a zombie like world.

In this violent world, things remain often normal except for an occasional spurt of violence towards the mortals and unliving by these flesh eating zombies that roam the surrounding perimeters. Confined in these razor wired high fenced quarantine camps for eternity, they are unevenly distributed making it difficult for the undead to watch each and every one of them like they should to keep them out of harm’s way. Strangely in this dark world, panic has subsided as this place experiences chaos and disorder.

One reason is the constant struggle between the good and evil as the unliving walk around looking for an opportunity to attack the undead. The unliving will eventually turn into zombies over time and will create more hate and wreak havoc on the living that guards them. The living must be aware at all times when these zombie sleep-walk through the night and look for a body to kill or infect with their flesh eating bacteria. These zombies no longer have a purpose in life except to kill and consume. They are the epitome of the dead and must be eliminated from this earth forever but laws and decency within the human race prevents such genocide of this evil group of the unliving. The correctional officers must try to save the half-unliving from the advanced unliving and zombies and often fail to do so as they are outnumbered five hundred to one every time they walk through those gates of hell.

This story focuses on this constant struggle inside prisons. Society’s minds often wander too far from the truth and allow ignorance and apathy to guide their thinking. Leaving the correctional officer out of mind and out of sight, they become easy offerings for the unliving and zombies that roam freely inside this vampire controlled world they work in and are often sacrificed for the good of society and the safety of countless citizens that may sleep in peace and safety because these courageous officers stand the wall to keep these evil minded zombies inside the walls. Society must learn to interact, understand and support these correctional officers that have the toughest job of all criminal justice professionals.