Modern
Arizona Prison Management Style
The history of
Arizona prisons appears to be simplistic in appearances and should not serve as
a model for any prison system in our United States as it is based on a
plantation management style that has been applied for reasons that appear to
violate the shear value of human rights and civil rights as well of both
employees and workers.
Their history is
based on models many business owners have adapted to and used to bring complete
control over their span of operations and keep them competitive in modern days
using a generational warfare theme to keep both the staff and inmates at edge
and creating an unrest that justifies using several methods to keep order.
Certainly there
is no need to go back into history and demonstrate how slavery has been used to
make profit of products that sell based on supply and demand. Slavery at some
point in history was a well-established method of production and continues to
be used in modern days through the manipulation of laws and cultures that
permit vague plantation management styles to occur to manage people.
One thing is for
sure – slavery has been implemented through legitimate venues established by
law and supported by legislation drafted, lobbied and legislated into bills by
powerful groups such as ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) and others
using various acronyms to avoid being readily detected as such a political
group. Basically, the concept of growing prisons and expanding their influence
within society has reduced people into “human capital” and considered “assets”
rather than human beings.
People in our
society have been manipulated for years to accept prisons as a legitimate
reason to keep millions of criminals inside sharp razor wire and high walls.
Their tolerance to prisons has been tempered by political groups of the
criminal justice system such as police, prosecutors, judges and chief executive
officers such as mayor, governors and federal administrators that incarceration
was the answer to a rising crime rate. Hence an example is the war on drugs
campaign that launched a prison growth never experienced before which targeted
drug users rather than drug dealers.
Plantation
management styles share many commonalities. They are simple and straight
forward and allows plausible deniability of many issues inside prisons because
they are set up in a manner these flaws never reach the top or so it is said
officially.
Characteristics
are:
• Many were
absentee owners and contract out their work and productivity through third
parties such as wardens, administrators, chief of security and supervisors
• Kept complex
and meticulous business records but managed them in a manner that makes
discovery through the public information freedom act difficult and time
consuming
• Carefully
monitored their profits and allocated their resources for maximum gain
politically and financially making them wealthy even after leaving the business
• Had complete
control over their employees (slaves) and their workers (slaves)
• Didn’t have to
worry about turnover as their labor was cheap and plentiful
• They could
experiment with tactics, moving employees around, demanding loyalty but giving
them no added benefits for their loyalty – workers were treated the same
• They could
demand higher levels of output without higher compensation
• They could
monitor what employees thought, wanted, eat, sleep and personal relationships
• Incentivized
workers through stipends but refused to give them raises or better benefits
• Encouraged
honesty, handed out bribes to both employees and workers to encourage tales of
rumors and snitching each other off offering them better jobs for good work, to
police one another
• Could measure
an employee or worker by their productivity and corporate worth
• Depreciated an
employee or worker worth through the years allowing attrition to lower the costs
of keeping them.
The down side of
such business characteristics are as follows:
• Commodity
approach: A person is treated like a commodity who can be bought or sold at a
price. This applied to employee and worker
• Machine
approach: person is treated as a part of the machine that can be fitted like
any other part.
These people
(employees) are:
• Forced to work – through mental or
physical threat
• Owned or controlled by an ‘employer’,
usually through mental or physical abuse or the threat of abuse, intimidation,
fear and ostracizes or alienates them with other employees
• Dehumanized, treated as a commodity or
bought and sold as ‘property’
• Physically constrained or has
restrictions placed on his/her freedom of movement.
Using the prison
worker (slaves) model today we have:
• Bonded labor for employees depended
on their wages, benefits and retirement plans
• Child Slavery –Juvenile systems
• Conditions of mandated servitude
• Forced labor – forced work as work
refusals result in disciplinary or more restrictive movement housing conditions
• Human trafficking – moving people
from one location to another and forcing them into mandated work conditions.
• Physically constrained or has
restrictions placed on his/her freedom of movement.
Reference: http://www.topmanagementdegrees.com/slave-management/
Reference: http://www.topmanagementdegrees.com/slave-management/
