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Showing posts with label prison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prison. Show all posts

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Justice System?


Is this the New World Order for human trafficking?
Define Slavery
a condition compared to that of a slave in respect of exhausting labor or restricted freedom.
Define Servitude
the state of being a slave or completely subject to someone more powerful.
Government
Pays State based on how many convictions they have
State
signs contracts; guaranteeing up to 100% occupancy with Private prisons
Private prisons
Lobby cities and counties for payment per bed in facility
City and County
pressure judges and prosecuting attorneys for convictions
Prosecuting Attorneys, DA's
pay the Chief of police
Chief of police
pay police to make arrests
Police
arrest you (1 in 10 Americans will, at some point, be or has been arrested/incarcerated)
A private prison or for-profit prison is a place in which individuals are physically confined or incarcerated by a third party that is contracted by a government agency.
"The private prison industry has promoted policies and practices that increase the number of people who enter and stay in prison."

"By contractually requiring states to guarantee payment for a large percentage of prison beds, the prison companies are able to protect themselves against fluctuations in the prison population."

Oklahoma has three contracts with a 98% occupancy guarantee provision, while a couple of Louisiana’s contracts contain occupancy requirements at 96%, and Virginia has, at least, one at 95%.

All major prison companies, CCA, GEO Group, and Management and Training Corporation (MTC), have been successful in negotiating prison quotas in contracts. Side note: GEO Group is owned and operated by MTC!

What does this mean? Convictions are for sale!

 Now does it make sense that a non-violent offender is sentenced to more time in prison than a violent offender! The violent offender, if released, has a higher chance of re-offending and being returned to prison! The state can then claim they are 'adhering' to the law by showing acceptable 'turn over' rates.

Colorado has experienced a sizable reduction in its prison population. In the past decade, the crime rate has dropped by a third, and since 2009, five prisons have been closed.

The state projects that two to ten additional prisons could close in the near future, depending on the size of the facilities chosen.

This decrease in prison population propelled CCA, which operates three private prisons in the state, to take action. Last year, CCA negotiated the insertion of a bed guarantee provision in the state budget for all three of its facilities for the 2013 fiscal year.

Even though all three contracts for these facilities include explicit language specifying that "the state does not guarantee any minimum number of offenders will be assigned to the contractors’ facility," the company (CCA) was able to circumvent the contracting process and mandate occupancy guarantees long after the contract was negotiated and signed.


All three contracts require the state to fill or compensate the company for every available bed. Yes, that would be a 100% occupancy, whether they have 'criminals' to put in the beds or not!

According to a 2012 Vera Institute of Justice study, the number of those incarcerated has increased by over 700% over the last four decades (40 years). The cost? $39 billion.

Where does all this money come from?
YOUR taxes!

The information found here is just the tip of the iceberg as to what is really going on. Most prisons have some sort of 'work program' in which inmates are allowed to 'work' for far below minimum wage, the average being around 0.78 cents per hour, while the private prison rakes in the cash (reports are as high as $70,000 from one contract) from contracts in which they agree to supply laborers (yes, inmates!)! Starting to sound pretty close to slavery!

UPDATE: Why do we even have prisons? Why is America incarcerating its own people when the Government is releasing known criminals into our society?

Overall, ICE released 30,558 criminal aliens in fiscal year 2014, which is down from the 36,007 criminals released a year before (2013).

...there are 820,000 illegal aliens in the United States with criminal convictions, including 690,000 illegal aliens currently residing on U.S. soil who have been convicted of a felony or “serious” misdemeanor.
Why are there two  'justice systems' in America? 
We have one set of laws on the books, but there are two legal systems: One for the rich and powerful, and one for everyone else. It’s not equal justice when a kid gets thrown in jail for stealing a car, while a CEO gets a huge raise when his company steals billions. Want to see the rigged game in action? 

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Corruption uncovered at MDSP

A "meeting" with the parole board is anything but...
The truth behind the facade called a parole board meeting is: the inmate meets with one (1) member of the parole board who then makes a recommendation to the other members before a determination on parole is made.

When that person is a former or current PROSECUTING attorney; how could anyone EVER think that person is going to be fair and impartial?

Allowing unsubstantiated allegations, that could not be proved because they NEVER happened, to be a guide for allowing or denying parole is NOT "serving justice"!

Penalties for making false accusations need to increase. That accusation stays on the record of the accused to be used against them later, regardless of whether the accusation is true or not, regardless of whether the accusation is substantiated or not! 
False reports made by an investigator from allegation from a family member needs to be seen for what they are – a conflict of interest. These types of "reporting" should never happen. It is far to easy for family members to believe unbelievable/outrageous accusations simple because they hear it from a family member.

Mike Durfee State Prison (MDSP)  is refusing to allow a veteran, on 100% disability, to get the medical attention he desperately NEEDS. 

The "doctors" provided by the prisons do NOT care about the inmate patients! The inmate can't call those "doctors" at 2AM and talk about a problem they are having, like they could with their real doctor!

This veteran has requested and been told/required by a  judge that they are to report to the VA Center for therapy, this person has set this up twice only to have the STATE deny him the ability to comply with the court order!

Why/When/How did prisons get the authority to OVER RULE a judge?

Psychological Abuse
Psychological abuse, also referred to as emotional abuse or mental abuse, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another to behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder. 
The psychological abuses the prison staff, including case managers, inflicts on the inmates has to stop! Poking the inmates with a stick and then threatening them with a non-compliance write up when they react, as any/all humans would do, is nothing short of torture. What do I mean?
  • Lying to inmates.
  • Stealing their phone money and charging exorbitant rates for them to talk on the phone.
  • Treating them like second class citizens. Talking to them as though they don't have thoughts, feelings, and are not allowed to react to their environment.
  • Labeling them as dirt-bags, violent persons, and/or worthless
  • Removing their ability to receive money from family for necessary commissary items while incarcerated. 
Every time the above mentioned inmate has "complied" with requests from MDSP they have been screwed. This person was told by a MDSP representative that they were going to enact 4 months of their suspended time, which they signed (agreed to), under threat of a non-compliance write-up, only to have them change it to 6 months, without proper legal actions! Which brings us to how can the prison over rule a judge and enact suspended time in the first place?

Every request is presented to the inmate as "optional" but if the inmate verbally questions the legality or wording of the paper or refuse to sign the paper they are threatened with a non-compliance write-up! What difference does that make? That should be obvious! If an inmate has a certain number of write-ups, regardless of what those write-ups are for it makes the inmate ineligible for parole!

Isn't it ironic that prison staff are committing far worse crimes than the inmates they are supposed to be supervising!

What exactly are you teaching inmates? I will tell you:

  • you are teaching them that working in the prison industry, after its privatization, puts you above the laws that every one in society is supposed to abide by!
  • if you have a family member that works for a prison you can behave as though you own the world
  • legal is just a word used to support the pretense that what you are doing is just/right/acceptable
  • freedom, civil rights, and liberty mean NOTHING in America!

That ladies and gentlemen is incorrectly called rehabilitation!
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