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Increased Violence in Arizona Prisons

 

Today’s awareness level inside Arizona prisons has drawn serious concerns by those employees with boots on the ground inside these volatile workplaces. Arizona legislators must be prepared for increased violence because the administration has not fulfilled its obligation to provide sound prison management in those areas that are in dire need of attention to detail and effective prevention methods. Recent mass “fighting” has brought indicators of racial unrest within the agency and more violence is expected as moving those identified perpetrator to a higher custody level does not resolve the outstanding problem that remains on these lower custody yards.

Arizona must admit they are at a rough point in their ability to manage current prison dynamics. Reactive strategies are putting employees at risk as well as public safety. Please understand my reasons for writing this article as it is only meant to help and prevent prison violence, harm to employees, and destruction of state property as well as the safety of inmates. It is not meant or designed to be an adversarial relationship but rather an informative one to avoid a potential crisis.

Delaying the necessary action to be taken to avoid such violence could harm those in harm’s way and will only allow more violence to occur. Failing to address the issues will create vast chasms of miscommunication and mistrust between the central office admin and local facility administrators. The result will be procrastination and hesitation to act. Central office admin has maintained they are in complete control of the situation however; evidence within these prisons illustrated conditions to the contrary as security is not sufficient to be vigilant and enabled to pick up intelligence that pre-warns the admin of any future problems on those prison yards. Yard security is totally depended on responding resources from other units leaving those sending units exposed to their own dangers.

It is suspected the recent racial tensions will draw more and more inmates together in a common bond to reject administrative efforts to further change the way things are related to reducing violence, gang and drug activities, reduction of programs and other factors causing idleness and boredom among them throughout the state.

The greatest danger exists when these different races combine with collusion to resist or protest current administrative efforts to deny the shortage of staffing for their own protection purposes, delays in medical and mental health care, high telephone costs and prices at the commissary, poor food service and interrupted visitation or other privilege related activities. It is predictable that the unusually warm weather could mean an early start to the fighting season because the hot weather often tests the inmate’s ability to withstand the heat and the tension that exists inside prisons today since the HVAC has been deficient for years now in every state prison that exists.

 

Lifting the Political Fog over Prisons

Lifting the Political Fog over Prisons

 

Today there is no doubt Arizona is suffering from political strangulation and is most certainly lacking compassionate conservatism in the manner the GOP controls their influence within the industrial prison complex that has grown exponentially under their regime since Governor Brewer took office. It appears that the party’s control has blurred the rule of law and the ideological lines considering the role of the criminal justice system and the incarceration of men and women inside our state. It is with a high degree of certainty that Arizonians are getting serious about politics and contrasting visions are on the horizon how to manage and finance our prisons as well as our suffering economy.

For too long the political right has demonstrated its willingness to spend extravagant amounts of taxpayers’ money on prison beds and expanding private prison’s role in future incarceration policies. The long-term vision is to eventually replace state prisons with private prisons and could spell disaster for all public employees working the public prisons and being left behind when the privates take over. The dawn has broken on hybrid governance and Arizona is being swamped by this ideology brought here by carpetbaggers from back East as far as Florida and Washington DC.  

For the past five years emotional appeals have fallen on deaf ears and the usually faithful mainstream media has done all it could to control and contain any negativity about the prisons and its related events. Working hand in hand with the prison spokesmen, they have done all the heavy lifting and damage control to keep things quiet and in perspectives desired by those in power and profiting from the current set up of funding and growth of prisons beds inside Arizona. Republicans have long listened to policy makers on immigration, longer prison sentences, more prison bed and less transparency on the manner such business is conducted behind closed doors.

Little does the public know about prison affairs and much more important, little do they care. It is well known that Arizona is tough on criminals and anything less than current status would be perceived to be soft on crime and contrary to the message from the electorate that demands public safety at all costs even when that cost is extremely unreasonable and mismanaged. Promising public safety as well as border security has done well for the party that currently rules the legislative and executive branches of the state.

The problem with this kind of control is the eventual demise of its power and control when the prisons erupt and explode full of violence and other tragedies. This clouded picture will soon be crystal clear for many to see. Then the electorate masses will gather and point the finger of blame at those that has reassured them all these years that everything is under control. Soon the electorate will no longer be un-informed and helpless when it comes to prison business. As time passes the newly informed masses will decide new leadership and teach others that it is time for change and time for compassion as they propose to tighten the purse strings to the prison system and bring it back under control and prudent spending methods.

In return the Democrats will be winners and gather their own majority forces in the legislature as well as the executive office. They will squeak narrow victories in local districts and take over the governor’s office, the Attorney General’s office and they will in turn be the power to make the GOP political punching bags. They will break the partnership with CCA, MTC and other major electoral financial supporters and return the government back to the people. History repeats itself over and over as time and events cycle and re-cycle to the awaking of people that were once sheep and following blindly those that promised them strong public safety and a great economy that will never arrive until the power of control is reversed and good men and women come to the aid of the state and return it back to a state of affairs we can all be proud of again.

 

Mental and Medical Healthcare inside Prisons

To the contrary of popular belief, the number one root problem or reason for poor mental health and medical care inside a prison is not lack of qualified healthcare providers or individuals. It is not the care planning or the continuum of care that is in place. It is also not the leadership of the health care providers although we are now treading into serious areas of concerns as we approach the other critical elements of good or sound medical care inside a prison. The second and third most common root cause for poor medical treatment inside a prison is employee orientation training and patient assessment procedures. These two are the second and third most common root causes of medical events records for the sake of evaluating better medical care inside large jails or prison.

The number one reason, approximately 60 %, for creating poor medical practices inside a jail or prison is communication. Having witness this breakdown of communication first hand, it must be addressed immediately to reverse the horrific trend of mistreatment and abusive neglect of medical and mental health problems within the Arizona Department of Corrections. The failure to follow up on medical treatment disclosed and recommended is critical is good care. This creates unnecessary treatment delays and can further cause or inflict further injury or damage to the original assessment made upon the initial exam or recommendation.

It must be noted that organizational culture is rated the lowest reason for poor medical treatment as that was an assessment that was taken within the medical organization and not their customers or their clients. There will be deep variances of influence depending on the management styles of those clients representing their own views into the decision making or medical treatment applicability process.

If you want to accurately determine how organizational culture impact the level of treatment you must first determine how much control the client has over services rendered and adjust that portion of decision making power and combine it with the organizational culture influences. The more influence the client has, the less the organizational culture maintains control over their own sphere of responsibility and influence.

Watching you outside the circle

 

I sit here quietly watching the unmagic unfold as you sink in life like quicksand in the dry and forsaken desert. No words can describe the jobs you undertake each day while working in the darkness of evil and shadowy figures. I watch as it drags you down morally and ethically while you struggle to survive and keep your head above water. One year after another, you remain in the darkened pit called a man made hell-hole by others that have been there of what seems like forever but refuse to talk about it when you come home.

 

This was written for those courageous and willing to face the devil in his own little pocket of life and where evil triumphs over good almost every minute of the day. The darkness seems to always find a way to bring out the seductive and secret nature of the beasts inside and addictively brings souls back to be tortured or handed defeat at the hands of old man time and destiny. Slowly as I sit here outside the circle I can view your efforts with the affects of the unmagic focus on individual pains and sorrow surrounded by gloom and obscurity often unsaid and unwritten on the walls of silence.

Each day I watch these eyes tell a different kind of story. Each day I sit, I hold a different view from the circle’s ring of fire that separates the insane from the insanity that keeps the view together like glue carefully put on the binding forces of a book describing madness. Each scene is speaking to me in foreign tongues as it appears different from moment to moment in a different shade of light and darkness.

Each person I see looks different yet the same as they are colored with brown and orange shades of life. Each one has a different character yet the all seem to look the same withholding the colors of their shapes and clothing. I suspect there was a time when both were clothed the same and shaped in similar colors but as I tell this story, it could never again be the same but rather an erosion of character and favor. In sadness I see them as before as they are now nothing like anyone else of you. Time has taken your youth and beauty and the hearts and minds appear to be soiled.

Was it me or was it reality that made me sit here and watch from outside the circle where there is no laughter or light and families are so far away. As I sit here outside the circle there is a dog asleep and keeping me company so that I can stay warm and awake and listen to the whispers outside the circle that never sees the sun as it rises and the moon as it falls. Inside this circle of madness there is work to be done. There are no birds of freedom as the sky is filled with stars unreachable yet so close you can almost touch them in your mind.

Sliding over a little bit to sit a little higher I perch myself on the corner of insanity to see what is being eaten and consumed by the darkness without the light. In the end they seemed to give it their all. All and just a little bit more until all of them are consumed by the emptiness of light. A feeling lingering like the quicksand in life that is there but sometimes makes you unaware of its presence as it steals your heart, your kindness and compassion.

So to the devil’s delight and those that follow him you stumble in the eyes of God in the middle of the night. No longer do you feel the pain as it has parted your heart as the quicksand parts and swallows you whole as you desperately reach out to grab someone to hold onto as while slowly descending into the chasms of evil that will never ever let you go.