Jodi Arias, Alpha girl punked by her peers?

Jodi Arias, Alpha Girl Punked?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kM24x4VJLQ8

Narrated video on Jodi Arias dream statement to the jury deliberating her death sentence -

YouTube video on Jodi Arias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJTBLd-72fg

Jodi Arias’s Rose Colored Glasses

Convicted murders in Arizona face a challenge like no other prison in the United States. They face the ultimate test of survival and try to stay alive for the term sentenced or awaiting the execution date for the death warrant to be served when put on death row. Arias showed no level of rational or logical understanding of our prisons system when she addressed the jury on Tuesday. She was totally in another world that showed a dramatic disconnected viewpoint or expectation between reality and prison worlds.

She will experience one or the other but they are in actuality the same in this darkened environment where the public has no idea what goes on. She will never see “programs I can start and people that I can help and programs that I can participate in."

Her destiny after the trial, whether she gets put on death row or serve a life sentence has been set. Fate will demand she will be isolated and kept away from others for the rest of her life. She may manage to cope but it is likely she will contemplate suicide like so many others in Arizona prisons. Her changes are slim to survive this ordeal and it’s likely she will be dead before her sentence is completed.  Wearing ball and chain wherever she goes, she will experience mental and physical pain. She will be tortured by her own device and suffer at the hands of loneliness and despair. Those around her will taunt her to no end and drive her crazy. It’s just that kind of world she is going to and nothing can stop it.

She will leave her isolation cell for three or maybe four reasons. It depends how compliant she is with the officers that escort her. She will be stripped searched each time the cell door opens and either walked or put on a gurney to places she need to go with the exception of recreation, showers and maybe non-contact visits by attorney to work on her appeal.

Starting a book club will consist of a book club of one. If she recycles it will be her own recycle bin inside her cell but likely disposed of as contraband for she is not allowed much property while there. Reality will hit her sooner than never. Arias will have so much time to stare at the walls her mind will search for voices to talk to her when alone.

Cruel and unusual it may be to many but in Arizona prisons the standards are one hundred years old. There aren’t any accommodations for compassion or empathy. She will be housed in the same area where Marcia Powell died in the heat of the Arizona weather while kept in an outdoor enclosure that now has shade and water but nevertheless a cage.

It is likely Jodi Arias will realize that what she had done will never out do her sentence. Whether life without parole or a death sentence, Arias has already began the journey to the walking dead as she enters the Perryville prison completely unaware what is in store for her and how cruel it will be to her sanity, her health and her existence on earth.

Source: http://www.azfamily.com/news/The-truth-behind-Jodi-Arias-grand-plans-for-prison-208611471.html

 

 

 

Maximum Risks

Dear Rep. Campbell,

 

For the past several years there have been calls for the prison director’s resignation which has led to hundreds of suicides and a no confidence vote by the correctional officers’ union. It appears the director’s record of delivering sound medical / mental health services along with a booming institutional death rate is far from being acceptable according to national healthcare standards of care. Arizona ranks about sixth in the nation on suicides and nobody seems to be too concerned about this matter. In fact, Governor Brewer has praised the director several times saying she thought he was doing a very good job and impressed with his handling and understanding of the Arizona prison system. To this day, the director has only admitted superficial flaws exist and that he is working on reducing his conditions of confinement from maximum risk to changes that will lower those risks. So far, his plan is not working very well.

It is with some certainty he is reorganizing the healthcare services as he terminated one contractor and hired another in mid contract due to contractual deficiencies that delayed the delivery of medical care and sound healthcare practices inside prisons. However, he has failed to reduce the maximum risks that are currently impacting the current rate of deaths inside the prisons that are routinely written off as natural deaths, suicides or homicides.

The fact remains these numbers have not been reduced to any significant level and continue to exist while burdening the correctional officers with the laborious tasks of maintain a status quo with less resources and staffing than ever before inside the lockdown units. In this matter, these correctional officers are tasked to do the impossible as there is a shortage of staff at those critical positions that are legally and morally responsible for sound correctional practices.

It is highly recommended the Arizona legislature conduct an review of the whole system through independent impact statements related to staffing deployment plans of medical/mental health staff, custodial employees and other resources dedicated to handle treatment and programs of the high risk offenders susceptible to committing suicides or become victims in a violent assault or death by predatory gangs or individuals housed with the severely mentally ill in general population and lockdown units. Many of these offenders are unable to cope with this risk of being harmed on an open yard and are asking for protection in the lockdowns where the suicide rate is the highest.

This oversight and interview process should focus on conditions of confinement and the quality of care, training and communication with special needs offenders that are dying at an alarming rate weekly. It should also focus on leadership capabilities within the agency and the administrative oversight of medical, mental health and other specialized needs to ensure compliance with constitutional rights for fair treatment and quality services.

It is suspected that there are a variety of reasons for this deficiency, not because of people doing bad things but rather systems not in proper working in order to accomplish better delivery of services rendered by either the private medical contractor or custodial staff. There needs to be better accountability for the high number of deaths and putting his hands up and saying that is part of being incarcerated inside a penitentiary is not a suitable response. A plan needs to be devised to ensure the numbers are reduced and suicide intervention methods are active and working. I pray you will offer a solution to this problem as you have researched this matter as well.

While the legislative oversight committee is researching causes for the above mentioned concerns, it might also want to review standards of care and practices to concerns related to AIDS / HIV, Hepatitis, MRSA, Staph infections and other communicable disease concerns that poison the community upon the offender’s release. It should also review the care of the elderly and the medical costs associated with such incarceration care and review alternatives for those eligible for early release and non-violent offenders in crime committed and institutional adjustment history.

Insight on Suicides in Arizona Prisons

Looking at the high fatality rate inside Arizona prisons has got to be disturbing to those families impacted by the sudden deaths of their loved ones. The fact is today, with one of the highest suicide rates in the country, Arizona officials have not dedicated sufficient attention to this most critical problem inside their prisons.  A closer look at the individuals committing suicides no longer suggests that suicides are committed due to their initial crisis of incarceration but rather, an isolated problem or sign of an inmate’s inability to do time under conditions imposed by the Department of Corrections rather than their length of sentence. Hence it is suspect that conditions of confinement are the driving forces in this disproportional higher rate of suicides being committed inside the more restrictive custody units than general population.

It must be clear that there is little research related to this theory that more suicides are successful in the higher custody levels than general population however looking at the press releases delivered whenever such a death notice is prepared, there is a distinct pattern of behavior and incidents at the higher custody levels than in general populations. This must support my theory that conditions of confinement inside level 4 and level 5 units offer little hope or relief that gives the prisoner a sense of doing time and returning back to general population to finish out their sentences.  

It is with high hopes that this document will encourage the Governor, Director and other prisons staff to conduct research, training and development of comprehensive prevention policies that include environmental impact statements on the psychological state of mind as well as the physiological impacts on the human body and wellness.  Of course there is my own theory about suicidal behaviors among Arizona prisoners housed in Level 4 and 5 custody units. It is my belief that suicidal behaviors are abnormal results within a solitary confinement setting and are orchestrated, manipulated or even deliberate wrongful attempts to gain attention and fulfill some desire to excite or create sympathy from staff to obtain some sort of favor in return for not doing such an act again.

This would make an assumption that the individual has the mental capacity to perform such manipulated acts or willful self-harm and not mentally impaired or otherwise under such psychological state of mind that he or she can’t execute or plan such deliberate attempts to gain the attention desired. It would also make the assumption that staff assigned make routine or mandated unit checks within time frames that could in fact abort such a deliberate attempt to hang or cut themselves with the staff arriving and treating the injuries within time frames that makes the act survivable and successful as a manipulated attempt to control the environment by negative behaviors.

Individuals depending on staff making their rounds on time for a successful discovery and intervention is a high risk factor with staffing patterns sparse and sometimes critically low to begin with on each shift. Their desperate desire to have contact, human contact, interaction and perhaps even an confrontation, fulfills their desire to be getting the attention wanted and the physical chastisement that comes from these pernicious practices of attempting suicides for the purpose of being recognized and treated as a person in need and not a person neglected.

However, my theory is completely flawed and subject to harsh criticism when the individual possess a mental impairment or is medicated so heavily that they cannot design or device such a deliberate plan for attention and actually experience real suicidal ideations that are based on current psychosis experiences due to diagnostic conditions left untreated or neglected for numerous reasons explained later on in this document.

It is my own opinion that many suicide attempts or successful acts are based on a form of concentrated anxiety and inability to cope with the environment and the conditions of confinement imposed by either policy designed to restrain the individuals in chemical or mechanical restraints every time there is human contact justified for either an escort to the shower, recreation or a visit or appointment out of their cell. It is likely the relatively condoned routine of keeping them inside a small 8 x 10 cell for 22 hours a day is enough to trigger their psychosis and belief that there is no hope for change and this is how they are going to life for the rest of their lives or are so disconnected from reality they are in another state of mind and become unreasonable in behavior.

 From a former deputy warden and  layman’s viewpoint, this enough to drive any human being crazy and if that mindset has already been established in the past or history, it is easier to be pushed over the edge whether they want to or not, it is a last resort to express their humanity.

Hence we need to look at precipitating factors and zero in on cause and effect of these two categories of human beings locked away inside level 4 and 5 custody units. Since one is more on the behavioral scale and the other on the mentally impaired scale, it should be prioritized to address the two separately to ensure all conditions are met related to risks, tolerant levels, individual coping skills and predictability. Secondary, we need to establish therapeutic environments for both categories of behavioral and severely  mentally ill to ensure there are no cross- over treatment / program elements that can taint the treatment process and cause a negative impact on those severely ill housed with the behavioral prisoners that may in fact taunt the mentally impaired to commit suicide.

It is highly probable that the conditions of confinement are primary causes for prison suicides. Other than the initial crisis of facing long prison terms, there are other risks associated with this perspective of “doing time” that involve factors ranging from protection from predatory or gang associated individuals, ridicule or abuse [physical and sexual] by other prisoners and harassment or misunderstandings with staff assigned to supervisor them and ill trained to comprehend or manage severe mentally impaired behaviors causing conflicts and misunderstandings that often result in aggression or altercation justifying their placement in a higher custody level with or without treatment intervention from mental health providers aware of the misconduct.  This is an abbreviated list of coping problems but the point is clear and should be addressed in thorough training and awareness of those signs related to the mentally ill.

Another perspective from a prisoner’s viewpoint is the unquestioned lack of trust between the prisoner and the administration or correctional officers. Already dealing with their own crisis of being incarcerated and losing control of their freedoms, decision making and apparent control of daily activities and programs, they are also isolated or abandoned by family and significant others.

Hence their custodial requirements are squarely based on what is perceived to be a total authoritarian environment unresponsive to their own needs or desires as well as necessities and treatment needs.

Focusing on the dependence on an authoritarian environment or correctional officers working around them, the need to communicate is often impaired and ineffective. It has been my experience that it is these are the exact barriers that offer the prisoner a chance of survival or hope if removed and replaced with a culture that is unresponsive to their medical / psychological treatment and their practical incarcerated needs. In many cases, a prisoner may have told someone he or she had been thinking of suicide but the message is never clearly understood hampering intervention methods. Whether this was triggered by “bad news” or other instances, there are significant references that demonstrate the predictability of behaviors when such a risk or event triggers their depressed behavior that also includes shame and remorse regarding their crime when it hits them all at once.

Since this is the first link in communicating risks or changes in behaviors or thoughts, there is a distinct operational factor that plays into the formula for disaster as there are predetermined logistical and other support mechanisms absent in the higher custody units where these suicides are more prevalent and occurring at an alarming rate or frequency.  “They often suggest such behavior be ignored and not reinforced through intervention. In fact, it is not unusual for mental health professionals to resort to labeling, with inmates engaging in “deliberate self-harm” termed “manipulative” or “attention seeking,” and “truly suicidal” inmates seen as “serious” and “crying for help.”  (Haycock, 1989a)

 Finally, this document will end on a note that is most discerning to those working on this problem. Inside Arizona prisons there are multiple offenders suffering from different levels of emotional imbalance that requires special attention. Arizona prison officials have determined [with the support of mental health staff] that the prisoner is not dangerous and simply attempting to manipulate his or her environment. This suggests that the correctional staff assigned there adapts or accept this manipulation game as a pre-condition to accepting a suicide watch and not pay attention to detail or specific behaviors that includes being distracted from their duties, leaving the suicide watch area and not making timely rounds as required by their post orders.  Perceiving the threat as not-real, they are complacent in mannerisms and duty.

Source:

National Institute of Corrections -Prison Suicide: An Overview and Guide to Prevention By Lindsay M. Hayes Project Director National Center on Institutions and Alternatives Mansfield, Massachusetts June 1995

Rape Culture inside Prisons

Is there an American “rape culture” inside our prisons that is gaining energy? Does it run parallel or analogous to the mainstream ideological concepts that there is a “rape culture” within our society as well? If this is true, what fosters such idea and what attitudes are associated with such cultural influences that allow rapes to be condoned and accepted as a part of the overall prison culture. Sexual violence inside our communities are a grave problem as well as inside our prisons. There are no barriers to keep them apart as those that work the prison system will tell you that the only boundaries inside prisons are those of individual freedoms and controlled movements.

 

Prisons are ugly, that’s a fact but what is uglier is the attitude that exists that condones rapes and sexual assaults as a cultural norm that is often underlying cause why such cases are not investigated thoroughly and concluded decisive enough to avoid digging into the truth of the entire matter and deal with the tip of the iceberg rather than the entire episode. This jeopardizes individual respect, dignity, equality and their ability to seek protection as it endangers those that are raped, victimized and neglected.

There appears to be a high tolerance towards prison rape. The fact that many rapes are elements of coercion and not consensual practices is irrelevant as no rape is justified at any time anywhere. Thus a departmental investigation might not reveal the continuum of the rape and leave it inconclusive to the leave the fact in the shadows and never revealing the truth of what really happened.

 

Employees perceive the presence of homosexuals, lesbians, gays and gender transsexuals as freaks and unworthy of protection or consideration for those treatments and policy making for the heterosexuals in prison. They are alienated with extreme prejudice and therefore ultimately placed in danger. Looking the other way or refusing them protection according to their own policies engages a behavior that encourages attacks eager to show their supremacy and power over the others as they are expected to be met by approval of their peers and bystanders of such sexual assaults inside our prisons.

 

It is this concept of “permissive” behaviors that set the prisoner up for sexual violence and little recourse of getting help when reporting such threats or deeds to employees of the prison. This also leads to further acts of violence either related or indirectly related to the sexual assault to conceal or hide the fact someone on that yard committed a homosexual act and is now under the scrutiny of their peers.

 

Let's look at some commonalities of this “rape culture” inside prisons. First there appears to be a conflict of whether the sex is consensual or non-consensual. According to the law, none of these fall under consensual. Second there is s conscious effort by assailants to perform this rape by force.

 

Sentiments such as being gay, lesbian and transsexual in behavior condone the invitation to the rape. Like many rape cases in our society rape is routinely condoned and validated and investigated with falsified or out of context facts that distorts the actual event and creates the victim-blaming perception.

It is my believe that if prison officials educate staff and condemned such behaviors, the rate of rapes inside of prisons would actually be reduced and in some cases, prevented. Instead they are permitting an “adolescent culture” to exist and not hold them responsible for their actions.

 

In other words, non-consensual sex is not rape in the eyes of the prison culture rather it is more of a norm and custom to be victimized and raped when in prison or jail. There is nothing new about this revelation that has allowed adolescent behaviors to foster under the negligence of the prison administration as it does nothing to prevent such events. Prison rape is a cautionary illustration about attitudes that facilitate sexual assault than may lead to further serious injuries or death.

 

On a daily basis there is zealous talk about real and false rape allegations. Although it is hard to get reliable facts or statistics, it does happen and is under-reported. While in prison a victim would have a hard time proving rape or sexual assault. He or she would have to face their accusers and deal with the aftermath of snitching someone of a crime that could endanger them forever, inside of prison and outside when released. This is not a case of good morals versus bad morals but rather a case of victimization and justifying the need for protection of such violence.

 

Victim-blaming is the main catalyst of negligence in this matter. It alters the meaning of the rule of law and puts the victim on the defensive in the matter as they have to prove their own conduct was not a contributing factor to the rape or assault. There appears to be a presumption of 'you asked for it by your own behaviors” that justifies then inaction taken to resolve such matters. There is no presumption of innocence; there is no gender equality and there is no equal concern for the rights of those that become victims.

 

The negative impact of this “rape culture” falls on:

• the protection of the potential victim
• the rule of law that applies to the potential victim as legitimate basis for protection needs has bee compromised by "norms" and attitudes
• the norms and attitudes that defend taking no action to protect or report any wrongdoings
• a brief discussion prior to the final report that summarizes self-blame and victim-blaming attitudes that shifts the focus of the report on no conclusive findings and no further action taken
• a “blind-eye” approach on any future complaints or concerns aired by the victim after the sexual assault if reported and documented by the agency.

Human Life to the Highest Bidder

Since the mass incarceration of the past decades, there has been an auction going on in many state and federal prisons that resemble those days of slavery and the misery that goes along with such practices. Today's prisons are filled with masses of human beings auctioned and sold to the highest bidder on the profit margin determined by Wall Street and stockholders of private prison contractors. People must become aware that human lives have become a commodity and that not humans are equal in value or importance. It appears that many in society are either oblivious to the concept or are joining in the profitability of selling mankind.

One main reason for concern on this current trend is with stockholders there is only one priority; money and money means greed, corruption and the need for more power to make more money. Selling a human being would appear to be immoral in the past but today's stock market has placed a higher value on some and a lesser value on others. The food chain has been altered to indicate that people can be sold according to their societal value and purpose in how they fit in the economy. Greed and corruption, along with the inequalities and inequities of such goods makes it important to sort mankind out according to class or ability to make money for others. You might even say that because of the commodity market, morals have been devalued in order to conduct the business at hand.

Not all goods are valuable thus not all people have value. One must sort this out and determine which have the most value and which carry the lesser value of the trade and transformation that turns people into goods. Therefore, the economists must use a political continuum of significance to determine those that are worthy to sell and worthy to buy. The trade is not new. Human trafficking is common in most foreign countries and it has finally arrived in the United States in a perfectly legal concept. Politicians have transformed the need for goods to the needs for people and the prison industrial complex has been most accommodating by selling its prisoners for less than a dollar a head.

Everything is for sale these days. It has been said if you have the means to buy you have the means to possess. The use of human trafficking in our economy has reached its peak and society has not winked an eye while it is happening. Directly or indirectly, they all profit from selling human beings on the market under the prison tag. It is fair to say that public interest has turned into private interest as public value has changed into private values. Judges, law enforcement and the criminal justice system has been accommodating to the private prison industries as they turn over their incarcerated masses to those that promise to feed them, put a roof over their heads and keep them for prolonged periods of time in order to receive maximum returns on their investments.

One must not fool themselves if they are not incarcerated as the chances of them becoming a victim of a crime and charged as a criminal has increased blindly. Prosecutors re focusing on those low on the food chain and unable to defend themselves with an attorney or worst, unable to comprehend or understand what is happening because they are severely mentally ill and taken for granted as another commodity sold to the prison industrial complex to fill a bed regardless of what their treatment needs are. Once can easily see that these type of people are expendable and deserve no second thought about placing them in jails or prisons for a long term so profits are high and acquired to the fullest extend of the law.

The irony is that there are people between the mentally ill and those that have skills and an education that makes them more valuable than others. Skilled workers and intellectuals do well in prison and are well taken care of in sense of housing, medical care and employment. They are exactly what the prison contractors are looking for as they can make money from their fruits of labor that resemble slavery wages and confined living conditions that stifle independence and freedom. They are however, more fortunate that those illiterate and physically or mentally disabled. The prison complex is much kinder to those that can walk, think, use their hands and stay of sound body and mind. It reduces their overhead and custodial costs to keep them and all they have to do is keep them longer and uses quantity as a guide to profitability.

The rest are discarded and devalued and at the same time their existence has no urgency for treatment or other expensive overhead costs thus largely neglected or ignored for their routine, chronic or acute needs of food, medical and mental health treatment, dental and other commodities now identified within the proper definition of the environment. One can be proud of supporting those politicians that have managed to guide state and federal laws to accommodate such a prison industrial complex and ensure their growth has been successful and profitable for everybody that is a stockholders in the business of selling human beings to the highest bidder.