State of the Art Prison 3

In my last few chapters, I have talked about our country building a
state-of-the-art prison system and I was thinking, I might explain myself
better. When I talk about state-of-the-art prisons, I am not trying to
insinuate that prisons should be ran or operate in such a way that we are in
here living it up. I am talking about utilizing what’s already here to turn
every prison into a place of rehabilitation. In my last few chapters, I have
described what I’ve seen and what’s going on in these Federal Prisons, without
a doubt there is little chance for anyone to actually be rehabilitated.

But rehabilitation is not what they want, that is why I’ve explained what’s
going on. I am sure a lot of people will say “What can we do, we can’t make
prisoners change.�? Which I do agree with, but you can definitely change the
prison system. Let’s face it, if you can keep hundreds of thousands of
prisoners your 122 prisons, you are in control.

Now, since I have established who is in control, why not use this power to
revamp the entire prison system? How hard would it be to take some time at
each prison and look over every prisoner’s file, see which one’s are staying
out of trouble and who are the problem children. I mean every cell block has a
unit manager, a unit counselor, plus there is someone over them. Their job is
to oversee cell movement, job assignments, cleanliness of the cells, showers
and day room. The unit manager goes over our files, how many points we have,
getting moved to other prisons and what programs we should take. Since these
positions already exist, why not start separating the prisoners in to
different cell blocks at first? If you put the ones constantly getting in
trouble in one building and the ones doing good in another, that would be a
good start. Now the ones doing good, start classes, push them to take a look
at themselves and start making some decisions on what they would like to do in
life. Have these unit managers and counselors sit down with these men and
women to help them start setting goals for themselves.

Let’s say a person has a ten-year sentence, by the end of this ten years,
let’s say this man or woman had been taught how to trade in the stock market
or how to open a business, by putting all of these prisoners together it will
be easier for them to accomplish this because everyone around them can help,
turn these cell blocks in to a place of rehabilitation. The prison can also
add some incentives such as, everyone who lives in these cell blocks gets
extra phone time or can spend an extra hundred on commissary day. Have these
cell blocks gang free, state car free. If a man is in here getting in trouble
or doesn’t want to take the program, that shows the prison officials he
doesn’t want to do anything with his time. Once each prison separates the
prisoners at each prison, now they can begin moving the inmates that want to
stay on gang time or don’t want to do anything with their time to a prison
where they can live together. By doing this the prisoners that are wanting to
change and do something positive with their time, have an opportunity to do so
without the worry of having to deal with all of the idiots or prison politics.

Remember this, many, many prisoners want to change, but because of the way the
Federal Prisons are run, men don’t have the opportunity to do so. Also, the
Federal Prison system can do this very easily, like I said at the beginning of
this chapter, there are already unit managers and unit counselors.

Creating a state-of-the-art prison system should be their number one goal.
Stop and think about it for a moment, imagine the overall impact this would
have on the prison population over the next ten to twenty years. Also, don’t
just forget the other prisoners in the United States Penitentiary, give these
men an opportunity to leave their prison gangs and move to the
state-of-the-art prisons. Anyone who comes to these prisons will understand
that if you get caught back in gang activity, you will not get a second
chance. What I’m talking about is not far-fetched idea, this is very possible.
Doesn’t it make sense to create a program that will actually make a
difference? To eliminate every obstacle that holds the men back from
accomplishing great things with their time. A lot of the prisoners in these
federal prisons are focused on survival, not on rehabilitation.

Another thing, start getting rid of the corrupt staff. Create new laws that
would crack down on the corruption that’s always been allowed to happen in
these prisons. There are mandatory sentences for people arrested with certain
types of drugs. I see men all around me with small drug cases that really
shouldn’t be in Federal Prison. Alright, if laws can be made to make examples
for drug dealers, why not create mandatory sentences for the guards who have
flooded the prisons with drugs? Imagine this, any guard or staff member caught
bringing drugs into a Federal or State Prison system, will receive an
automatic twenty-five years, day for day. I promise these prisons would dry up
faster than the desert during the summer.

I have written about all the prisoners through the years, caught with a K-2
joint that received one or two years extra on their sentence, I have seen
mandatory sentences passed to put low level drug dealers in prison for
decades, so why wouldn’t our same government pass laws on their own people who
have flooded the prison system with drugs? If laws like this mandatory
twenty-five years were passed, it would make every employee that works here
realize that it wouldn’t be worth it to take a chance that would put them in
prison for all those years. Would it stop it? No, but it would for sure slow
it down to basically nothing, and when those few brave idiots get caught, make
examples out of them with the mandatory twenty-five. I promise once the others
that work here see what happened to one of their own, it’ll for sure stop the
flow of drugs that come into these Federal Prisons, because as it stands now
these places are flooded with drugs.

If they build state of the art prisons, every aspect of things that hold
people back from actually changing, like gangs and drugs must be eliminated.
Is that possible, absolutely. Believe me, everyone in here would jump at an
opportunity for better living conditions, a place that’s not being controlled
by gangs or living by a bunch of political crazy idiots that believe in their
delusional mind that prisoners should live by how they envision prison to be.
So, now that the gangs and the political nuts are out of the way, the guards
and other staff members are scared to death to bring drugs inside the prisons,
a prisoner can focus on one thing, rehabilitation. Truthfully, I believe this
would be the start of something great for America’s prison system. Something
like this has been needing to happen in our country forever. To everyone
reading this, it only makes sense, doesn’t it? Why would any prison system
allow gangs and these political nuts to control a prison? Why would our
government allow people that work in their prisons to sell drugs and act no
better than the men and women who were sent here for doing the same thing?

All of the men who want to stay in gangs or state cars, put them together and
make these prisons restricted. Everything at these prisons should be so strict
that it becomes virtually impossible to conduct any type of criminal activity.
These prisoners want to be known for gangsters and killers. Ok, all of the
prisons they are sent to should have very little movement. Make rec times
individually and commissary basically only what they need. But also show them
how these state-of-the-art prisons are being run. Show them that if they are
willing to leave the gang life behind, there is a new world waiting for them.
Not some fantasy bullshit that leads to a life behind bars, but a world where
all of their dreams can come true. Even the worst of the worst should be given
the opportunity to change. After all this is America, the greatest country
that’s ever been built. A state-of-the-art prison system is something that
should have happened decades ago. Let’s show the world how to build a
state-of-the-art prison system.