Wasted Honor -- - Say What you Need To Say......: The Kaibab 21

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

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

The Kaibab 21 – Part III

Arizona State Prison Complex-Winslow Complex

Ever since the first of the year there have been random assaults taking place at various complexes throughout the state.Along with these beat downs there have been a few homicides not publicly reported since their deaths occurred off prison grounds and in the community hospitals were they are reported quietly through a news release that is muted for political and embarrassment reasons. Some news releases identify these as natural deaths while others report them due to complications during treatment of an injury or illness. Either way, these deaths (of all races) are muted and kept under wraps to minimize the violence inside prisons.

Shortly after a racial attack at the medium unit in Lewis, the agency decided to divide the Black inmates and dispersed them to all the other general population yards in the state. Their ideology was to divide and conquer those housed and Lewis as they were beginning to organize themselves in order to protect themselves from the predatory Mexican Mafia and associates on their yards. Attacks were frequent and also included assaults on staff as they knew attacking staff would give them automatic protective custody at a level 5 unit and not be in imminent danger of being confronted or killed by Mexicans. It was a survival tool they had learned doing time.

Those dispersed to other yards were vulnerable and outnumbered by Mexicans and Whites. They had to find a way to protect themselves. It was reasonable to conclude they formed a circle or groups of individuals all Black so they had the ability to defend themselves when attacked. Heavily outnumbered they fabricated shanks and other weapons to equal the threat levels imposed by the majority of Mexicans eager to attack them due to the mandate to injure or kill Blacks on sight.

Months passed and the Blacks were divided among the general population yards and left to defend themselves as the administration was oblivious or ignorant of the threats made against them. This “green light” by the Mexican Mafia was enforced by the strictest codes out there and numerous attacks continued to occur. At Kaibab there was a lot of tension and a pending war brewing. To quote those that were housed there at the time it was a time of political strife and what appeared to be encouragement by the administration to engage in a cultural war or better yet a “racist culture” conflict.

These attacks were kept “under wraps” according to these Kaibab prisoners who were all transferred to the Special management Unit I in Florence after the riot jumped off in Kaibab and resulted in 21 blacks being locked up for possession of weapons, inciting a riot, participating in a disturbance and many other charges. These 21 Kaibab black prisoners called their new group the New Afrikan Revolutionary group and began a political campaign to publicize their issues and concerns. This article is a direct result of such pleas to bring this matter to the sunlight and out of the darkness.

Reaching out to the media failed as they claimed their “politically in-correct tragedies” would spread to the community streets just like it did decades ago in California. The fact is that this may be more correct than anyone would want to admit as prison violence often spreads into street violence. The Revolutionary group is predicting great potential of these civilian killings of Black and Mexican people because of this racial war inside of prisons.

The bottom line this group is claiming is this statement that will likely get them all housed in an administrative segregation unit forever doing their time at the most restrictive setting. Saying boldly “just like their struggle the State and Imperialism, we fight to the death and stand up for what’s right + our Human Rights.” Claiming the ADOC are “using their policies and laws to attack and diminish our humanity; we use the pen as a sword as well”