A prisoner once said, "A prison forces a prisoner's decision-making process to be determined by two emotions. Fear and Hate". We can start by making prisons "safe" by whatever means necessary. that eliminates "fear" based violence which produces more violence. just a start.
I think more programs and fixing what we have and since distributing of marijuana is legal now be it have been time served to marijuana charges and let them out! Straight like that bc it’s pointless to punish a crime now that’s legal now. Don’t matter no past! Reformation has to start somewhere. This could really be a blessing to many. I will email Kay Ivey with this but we’ll see how that helps but then there is press Of press. Maybe get her to thinking about the bigger picture. These extra imprisonments will not populate staff with proper training. It’ll be like seriously setting lions amongst lions just in a much larger and more places. Place isn’t going to take long setting it’s self up. Just don’t make sense to me but we’ll see where we can start getting some attention
As a former correctional officer, I will say that a lot of the older officers turn their backs to violence and drugs until it is over and they train the new officers coming in to do the same. I cannot tell you how many times I was told to 'look away' from drug use or violence while I was an officer. There are very few rehabilitative programs, also. We don't teach anyone any different. We bring them in, teach them nothing, and send them right back into the street to do the same thing and be the same way. I get the whole 'your parents should have raised you better' thing, but some people aren't fortunate enough to even have parents, much less attentive parents. The whole system is a mess. Until someone can get to the ones in charge, nothing will change.
I honestly think the ideal would be requiring state legislators and Ivey to visit prisons and speak to incarcerated folks every year when they approve the ADOC budget, certainly when they're signing off on new prison construction. I recognize that it's unlikely, unenforceable, and even if it did happen, would more likely than not in practice turn out to be a highly controlled pony show. But SOME acknowledgment that these people *exist* and are being effectively tortured would be miles ahead of the fingers-in-the-ears approach that they're allowed to take today.
The other crazy idea: start a PAC that runs local TV ads with a super-compassionate Christian bent, highlighting egregious abuses, asking folks if they believe in actually giving people convicted of crimes the chance for redemption. Again, maybe most people won't give a damn, but at least they can't claim not to know what's going on.
I previously believed that litigation against the state was the only realistic way to change the inhumanity, violence, and chaos in the Alabama prisons. I have personally filed ten lawsuits against ADOC. Recently, however, I've seen that litigation is not enough -- even the powerful US Department of Justice and their lawsuit against the ADOC over violence and drugs can't seem to make a dent in the problems. I believe it's going to take a massive and concerted organizing effort of the families, friends, and allies of prisoners -- and people who simply care about justice and have a heart -- to demand change from our elected officials and the leaders of ADOC. There needs to be lobbying, marching, educating, letter-writing, phone-calling, pushing local media to consistently cover the deaths and drugs, AND litigation. There needs to be one, well-funded, single-issue organization to spearhead the effort. In the past, there was an Alabama Prison Project; it needs to be resurrected.
Literally, there's no end! Violence is a pastime in prison. It's folklore, storytelling,...a day-passer when you're inside. The news of a violent act spreads so quickly and all for the glorifying of the winner or to the detriment of the person that comes out on the bad end. Sadly it's "The Way of Life" when you're inside. No one cares, in here I mean. Beth, your work is extraordinary/ outstanding. Needful if nothing else! Thank you ! I don't read all of your material, but when I see something you've posted after not seeing something from because I don't follow, I'm still left with a glimmer of hope that one day the right person is going to read your material and then we'll see some action. Prayer, yes- but this evil in the ADOC is so persistent that even prayer on the subject is burdensome sometimes.... I'm just being honest
Prison's and jail's have more crime inside . Than what goes on in the street. You can get anything you want in prison. You get JLO 😆 in prison. Might take sum doing it can happen. We need a MEGA- prison. Like 🤔 Kansas. 5 story HIGH VOLTAGE FENCE ⚡⚡⚡ all the way around Kansas. Of course we have to get good folks out pay them for there land. And we put all the monster in there. Fly over c130 drop food in keep moving some one die they can bury them. That's is my Alabama prison reform. Fell free to added to it in. Any way.
A prisoner once said, "A prison forces a prisoner's decision-making process to be determined by two emotions. Fear and Hate". We can start by making prisons "safe" by whatever means necessary. that eliminates "fear" based violence which produces more violence. just a start.
I think more programs and fixing what we have and since distributing of marijuana is legal now be it have been time served to marijuana charges and let them out! Straight like that bc it’s pointless to punish a crime now that’s legal now. Don’t matter no past! Reformation has to start somewhere. This could really be a blessing to many. I will email Kay Ivey with this but we’ll see how that helps but then there is press Of press. Maybe get her to thinking about the bigger picture. These extra imprisonments will not populate staff with proper training. It’ll be like seriously setting lions amongst lions just in a much larger and more places. Place isn’t going to take long setting it’s self up. Just don’t make sense to me but we’ll see where we can start getting some attention
As a former correctional officer, I will say that a lot of the older officers turn their backs to violence and drugs until it is over and they train the new officers coming in to do the same. I cannot tell you how many times I was told to 'look away' from drug use or violence while I was an officer. There are very few rehabilitative programs, also. We don't teach anyone any different. We bring them in, teach them nothing, and send them right back into the street to do the same thing and be the same way. I get the whole 'your parents should have raised you better' thing, but some people aren't fortunate enough to even have parents, much less attentive parents. The whole system is a mess. Until someone can get to the ones in charge, nothing will change.
I honestly think the ideal would be requiring state legislators and Ivey to visit prisons and speak to incarcerated folks every year when they approve the ADOC budget, certainly when they're signing off on new prison construction. I recognize that it's unlikely, unenforceable, and even if it did happen, would more likely than not in practice turn out to be a highly controlled pony show. But SOME acknowledgment that these people *exist* and are being effectively tortured would be miles ahead of the fingers-in-the-ears approach that they're allowed to take today.
The other crazy idea: start a PAC that runs local TV ads with a super-compassionate Christian bent, highlighting egregious abuses, asking folks if they believe in actually giving people convicted of crimes the chance for redemption. Again, maybe most people won't give a damn, but at least they can't claim not to know what's going on.
I previously believed that litigation against the state was the only realistic way to change the inhumanity, violence, and chaos in the Alabama prisons. I have personally filed ten lawsuits against ADOC. Recently, however, I've seen that litigation is not enough -- even the powerful US Department of Justice and their lawsuit against the ADOC over violence and drugs can't seem to make a dent in the problems. I believe it's going to take a massive and concerted organizing effort of the families, friends, and allies of prisoners -- and people who simply care about justice and have a heart -- to demand change from our elected officials and the leaders of ADOC. There needs to be lobbying, marching, educating, letter-writing, phone-calling, pushing local media to consistently cover the deaths and drugs, AND litigation. There needs to be one, well-funded, single-issue organization to spearhead the effort. In the past, there was an Alabama Prison Project; it needs to be resurrected.
Literally, there's no end! Violence is a pastime in prison. It's folklore, storytelling,...a day-passer when you're inside. The news of a violent act spreads so quickly and all for the glorifying of the winner or to the detriment of the person that comes out on the bad end. Sadly it's "The Way of Life" when you're inside. No one cares, in here I mean. Beth, your work is extraordinary/ outstanding. Needful if nothing else! Thank you ! I don't read all of your material, but when I see something you've posted after not seeing something from because I don't follow, I'm still left with a glimmer of hope that one day the right person is going to read your material and then we'll see some action. Prayer, yes- but this evil in the ADOC is so persistent that even prayer on the subject is burdensome sometimes.... I'm just being honest
Prison's and jail's have more crime inside . Than what goes on in the street. You can get anything you want in prison. You get JLO 😆 in prison. Might take sum doing it can happen. We need a MEGA- prison. Like 🤔 Kansas. 5 story HIGH VOLTAGE FENCE ⚡⚡⚡ all the way around Kansas. Of course we have to get good folks out pay them for there land. And we put all the monster in there. Fly over c130 drop food in keep moving some one die they can bury them. That's is my Alabama prison reform. Fell free to added to it in. Any way.