Who is the Hypocrite?

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.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Who is the Hypocrite?

Is there a bigger hypocrite in state government than Charles L. Ryan? Let’s look at his record and reflect for a moment what he has done for Arizona. Going for his second term as the director of Arizona prisons, he is set to be re-appointed by Governor Doug Ducey, who apparently ignored the fatality rate inside the prisons and the high costs of litigation defending the state against class action lawsuits and other wrongful death cases too many to mention.

Is there a bigger hypocrite in state government than Ryan? I suppose we can start looking at the state legislature but that would be doing exactly what Charles Ryan does best, deflect, deceive and blame somebody else. Ryan can re-furbish his office, his precious glass wall that protects him from others and symbolizes the barriers he has built since taking over in 2009 as the director of the state’s biggest agency and also the most expensive budget cost.

Leading with questions why he is the biggest hypocrite, there is the question of prison management as a fiscal responsible person. He has failed to control or reign in the extreme costs of running prisons by asking the legislature consecutive times for more money. As a fiscal conservative approach, this is a failed process. Each and every year, this agency has received a supplement to stay afloat.

Under his direction and command he has promised to take care of his 10,000 employee agency from the moment he took office. First, he changed the definitions of staff assaults to manage the reports better. That didn’t help as he filled up detention unit with record high special needs prisoners very expensive to house. Second, he locked up more prisoners into the most expensive custody level there is in corrections, max custody, and third, he asked for more money to double bunk max custody, add max custody beds and deliver more prisoners to the system as time goes by.

Sadly, this hypocrite of a man never reigned in the prison gangs that flourish their sales with heroin, meth and other drugs. He never addressed the protective custody dilemma that was created by the high rate of inmate on inmate assaults. He never stopped the drug flow into the prisons and he boasted about the arrest and discipline of well over six hundred staffers when in fact, he should have focused on staff retention, selection and recruitment process and better working conditions for staff. Blaming the vacancy rate on the former administration, he deliberately forced early retirements, resignations and terminations to create an experience void that can never be replaced causing major operational problems and security concerns for those left behind.

Instead of shrinking the agency, he has expanded the growth causing extreme fiscal pressure and stress on other responsibilities to the state budget including education, children protection, healthcare and many more. In the process, he has lined up consecutive victories for private prison contractors to pick up profit margins in bed space, commissary, healthcare as well as visitation and telephone fees that are designed to be one of the highest in the country.

He made Arizona, a well-deserved and profitable in mass incarceration haven for other contractors to follow and establish their own profit sharing motives as they continue to bribe legislators friendly to the thought of lining their pockets with money from this corporate pocket of wealthy donators to the political system in exchange for their preferred status as a repeat and satisfied customers.

If this was a football game, he would be accused of running up the score on the taxpayers who are footing his expensive bill. If this was a championship playoff game, he would have sacrificed his own staff and key personnel to allow the other team to win and win big. His lack of care, compassion and loyalty to his own team is shameful and should be cause for his removal.

However, that won’t happen because the governor is pulling for the other team as well and wants them to win at any cost. Even if the game is thrown by the coach. A man who deliberately created chaos and mass confusion within his own team and one who refused to score, win and play by the rules so the other team can win. Today, after the final whistle was blown to signal the end, there were two victors after the game, the private prison business and the inmates who control the prisons by default and neglect.

Sadly, letting the other team run up the score and putting our players in harm’s way is not only an embarrassment to the state but a hypocrite way to show when he says he really doesn’t care about the staff and the taxpayers of the state. Letting state resources go to make the other team look good was his goal and even when he played his best, he never really scored one point for the right reasons.