Reality of a Prison Writer 22, E.C. Theus-Roberts

REALITY OF A PRISON WRITER 22, E.C. THEUS-ROBERTS

Here we are in the eleventh chapter of the of the desparecido chronicles- It’s striking how little consideration is paid a prisoner going on 27 months without a single penal rule infraction or misbehavior and I’m bac in Ad Seg again for the umpteenth time, but first for nothing I’ve done presently. I’ve been throw back in Ad Seg for something almost three years past for which I was punished for then and now again.

Few people question it. After all if the courts are disinclined to care enough to act, shouldn’t be any surprise general society is disinterested. The Penal Institution is meant to punish criminals. I just wonder t what point has enough retribution been served?

Condemnation of crime, dehumanization of criminals, a free hand given prisoncrats means prisoners are treated however administrators or guards deem appropriate and better be grateful they merit that much consideration.

Now I’ve had the pleasure of observing two prison systems in quite distinct locales with different cultures and histories. Though Colorado’s “corrections” budget is closing in on one billion dollars, its dismissive demeanor isn’t related to its solvency. I see it as a systematic malaise. Dismissive attention is equally, if not more, operative in Indiana.

Subjectively I’m dejected and dismayed, Objectively, simply depraved. How can the Penal Institution make society safer when it treats every prisoner as incorrigible? Generally, it’s not believed rehabilitation is achievable. More, most common is for prisoncrats to ignore anything not positive for their narrative. People leave prison worse off, which is why recidivism is so prohibitively high.

Retribution, not rehabilitation, is the goal, prisoncrat lip service to the contrary notwithstanding.