SOLITARY CONFINEMENT -SHORT STORIES - NEWS AND OPINIONS - JUST PLAIN OLD STRAIGHT TALK ~~
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday, July 11, 2014
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Darkened Sunshine
When you agonize from sleepless days and sleepless nights
you may be suffering from emotional state or experience known as a darkened
sunshine. The fatigue within you creates an abyss between your head and your
heart as well as your ears and your mind causing you to speak strange tongues coming
swiftly out of your mouth. Short-circuited neutrons are searching for
connections but the energy flows into a negative pit of fire.
I don’t expect you to understand this phenomena known as
darkened sunshine as it is an affliction that many out there don’t know about
or that it even exists. Once you experienced the addiction associated with the darkened
sunshine it becomes contagious and should be kept quarantined to keep it from
spreading from one soul to another without warning.
Affliction or addiction, you can’t fight darkened
sunshine. It spreads like a vine from cover to cover and once in the open,
nothing can stop it. There are no words that can describe this disorder but if
you forgive my bluntness I will tell you that it only happens to those who succumb
to the pressures of living and have thoughts of surrender on their minds.
Darkened sunshine is like belonging to a cult of zombies
who roam spiritless without purpose or any meaning. If they are lucky they find
some consolation in one another and keep each other as safe as they can be as
they wander without emotion around them. Baptized by fear and scared to
question their invaded state of mind and body, they seldom turn on themselves
but are quick to turn on others.
Don’t turn your back to the darkened sunshine for it will
grab your mind and soul with one single swipe of their one-sided blindness how
and why they exist. What may be different is that what is darkened sunshine to
you may in fact be a ray of light or fiery brightness to them as they feel it
is there for a purpose and gives them a moment of glory they are seeking.
People with darkened sunshine are rude and loud mouthed
and can be obnoxious and oblivious to any need for manners. They will tell you
to shut the hell up even when you are friendly and talk to you with a condescending
tone that won’t get anyone into heaven.
In fact, even Jesus wouldn’t know what to do with
darkened sunshine as they are of extraordinary evil and thrive on the flesh and
brains of others and resist any goodness that may be out there around them.
Thus they yell and scream with bellows of hell and
promise you the blessings of the non-living. Instead of promising heaven they
promise hell and for sure if you let them, they will deliver. Confessions of
their soul serves only to pacify them when cold and preaching freedom only
contradicts the facts they are bound by invisible spirits and ligatures of
hell-made bondage created by hate and suspicion.
Darkened sunshine cannot survive if you test their lips
and cause them to be burning. Speaking of the good versus talking of the evil
will bring odd or unexplainable changes within them. Confessions of their soul
helps them recover and when in the darkened stages they cannot fight but if
given a ray of hope and light their bodies plots physical changes that allows
them a glimpse of thoughts of escaping their bondage back into the light.
Darkened sunshine manufacturers and entrapment and
slavery to the soul and heart and keeps them in the devil’s pocket. A gospel is
forbidden as the words of evil produce the perfection of evil even when
digested in a partial soul that is struggling to become free. It takes more
than words to break these chains of the devil and allow the sunshine to be
bright again. It takes love, kindness, understanding and compassion.
So as you lay there exploited by stress and pain and
sorrow. Don’t let despair get into your heart. Don’t fall for the trademark of
the darkened sunshine devil who someday will try to break your heart. Don’t let
your moods overwhelm you and never think you are alone. Think of those who
stood beside you when darkness fell and keep them close instead of a distance
away. Confessions are good for the soul and will bring the light back where it
belongs – in your heart.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Arizona prisons - Murder, Mayhem and Malfeasance
Arizona prisons are near capacity
and growing. Every year they ask the legislature for more beds either private
or public, they are planning growth rather than shrinkage. Arizona is in the
prison business as they are locking up more people than most of the other
states who are reducing prison populations.
Prisons are being filled with
non-violent first time drug offenders and other low risk criminals to make the
bed count. Seems the state wants to be the national leader in prison growth and
management. They are fueling a formula
for disaster as they currently meet the diabolical triangle of disaster by
being overcrowded, under staffed and leaving many prisoners idle.
Saturated with a serious multiple
gang war, the tension is mounting. The Arizona prison boss promises better
security but the homicides keep happening and the gang warfare is still on the
verge of a full blown race war. Kept in check by a shaky truce it could break
any day with the assault or murder of one or the gang members on the open
yards. The mayhem is silently buried
under the cloak of secrecy that hides the violence and other management
failures. Clearly the malfeasance is in the prison management style.
Max custody beds are full – more are
being requested but nothing is being done to reduce the violence except for
changing the wording in some of their policies. The culture is pro-violence and
staff assaults are higher than ever indicating who really in charge of these
prisons on any given moment or day. Inmate on inmate assaults are rising while
prison rapes are becoming a cultural norm that everybody accepts as acceptable.
Prison management has failed in three
areas – security due to inept staffing patterns imposed – program idleness due
to a severe reduction in inmate activities and treatment services – delayed medical
and mental care that impacts communal public health risks and safety as there
are prisoners released with communicable diseases and spreading them in the
community.
In the meantime, the Governor, the
legislature and the Attorney General are content with the way the prisons are
being operated and refuse to get involved in turning things around back to
sound security practices and sound correctional procedures to ensure public
safety, staff safety and a secure environment for inmates and visitors.
Monday, July 7, 2014
The Decline of the Ryan Empire
It has become very obvious to both political leaders and
government officials that the Ryan Empire is on its decline. Out of sight of
the public’s eye, they have crumbled severely and are now suffering badly as it
has collapsed on dozens of factors that resemble those of operational failures,
program suffocation and reliance on outside resources that have crippled their
effectiveness.
The Ryan Empire fell for several reasons and my theories
are based on evidence based facts that have been gleaned or emerged from
hundreds of horror stories told and news articles written. Even the website
belonging to the Empire reflects their disintegration as the empire is today
standing on its last leg.
Ryan’s Empire was never on a solid foundation as it recruited
and employed those very same people that were the reasons for the demise of a
previous administration under a different emperor. An invasion of forces once
controlled and now out of control has broken the chains of trust and communication.
Each force acts alone and does not want to work together with the others
splitting the Empire into ten different clones and sections.
An over-reliance on slave labor or inmate help was a
critical component of the crumbling walls as the prisons are now deteriorating
at such a fast pace no amounts of monies can reconstruct their foundations.
Straddled with poor economic conditions and constant overspending their
reliance on inmate help has diminished their capacity to control their
environment. The physical plant strength has weakened public safety and
jeopardizes staff safety as their neglect and failures to make situational
assessments and security awareness has faltered severely over the years.
Ryan’s Empire had been successful under the divide and
conquer theory that has parted loyalties as well as labor organizations. The division
has cause common causes to be abandoned and left each sector to fend for themselves
in order to survive. This chaos was a direct result of hiring dominant incompetent
players who would not follow the commands of Ryan and went on their own to make
things work for them.
Today, even the administration is divided and does not
communicate well with Ryan’s goals and objectives. They have demonstrated their
vulnerability by their failures to meet the “headline test” and have shown
their internal structure is weak and corruptive in nature as each have their
own systems never interlocking with the main system designed.
Although a billion dollar empire it has overstretched its
capability to control their expansion and stretched their resources beyond
normal capabilities. Having to cover such vast areas of the territory, they are
unable to govern the empire effectively and are facing a logistical nightmare
in order to preserve a safe and secure environment. There are insufficient “boots
on the ground” to keep the others safe and the invasion of ethnic gangs has
further weakened their ability to defend as designed by law and policies.
Ryan’s Empire is filled with fake leaders who will not communicate
failures as a part of their monthly reports fearing a backlash of
administrative wrath that may displace their authority and positions. Coupled with
their inability to communicate for help, they are forced to handle matters at their
own discretion and often fail to do the right things to minimize collateral
damage. Local rebellions or racial wars from the inside and a frail political
infrastructure on the other side has caused concerns for crumbling and
destruction from within rather than from the outside. Unable to keep up the
empire’s technological needs, their systems are overburdened and often
challenged for proficiency and effective management tools in their civil
infrastructure that is failing.
The Empire’s sheer size and rapid growth has made it
difficult to govern or manage. Loaded at the top with inexperienced inept individuals
doubling dipping but not concerned about effective and consistent leadership,
they only serve the empire to magnify their management problems.
Murders are frequent, natural deaths are becoming too
frequent showing incarceration is practically a death sentence and the civil
war within is fostering a mass rebellion. Soon this empire will be plunged into
chaos as more and more inept leaders create the hate and discontent element of
a riot. A decline in human dignity is boiling the pot to an overflow that is
going to be difficult to handle once it erupts.
The emperor has hired and established his own personal
bodyguards to protect him from the public and the troops who now hate him with
a passion. Fearing harm, the emperor has installed a crystal wall dividing his
office from the others and maintaining a solid glass wall between him and them.
The empire is littered with corruption and political
instability as their souls are often auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Failing to temper the excesses of abusive power and authority, the empire will
surely fall soon due to its own widespread corruption and incompetence. This has
cost trust in leadership and possible dangers of an overthrow of the emperor’s
reign and control of the empire.
The empire’s loss of traditional values and moral code
has created a new brutal culture of customs and practices that are shifted and
no longer according to written laws and policy and procedures. Trust displaced
with wrongful loyalties has created a breach of divine status for the emperor.
Last but certainly not the least factor is the weakening
of the empire’s legions or legionnaires. Unable or unwilling to recruit enough “boots
on the ground” troops or correctional officers, the makeup of the once might
legion has been diminished and severely fractured.
Hiring mercenaries from the private entities promising to
supplement their forces, Ryan merely propped up his troops with private rent a
cops to show control of the prison systems. Untrained and lesser skilled troops
fill the vacancies as attribution factors are ignored to induce salary savings
and other fiscal austerity strategies. Dividing the loyalties of his empire’s
soldiers he created a situation where they often turned on each other rather
than fight side by side as they once did against a common enemy.
Selected the weak-hearted for leaders has crumbled the
workforce into power hungry officers often turning against their own for their selfish
benefits of promotion and glory. Ignoring the strong-hearted officers for
promotion or leadership positions has demolished morale and warrants no extra
efforts on their parts to keep the infrastructure intact and operational.
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