Another person required to register as a sex offender is allowed to die behind bars
Charles Jones was a registered sex offender who went back to jail for failing to re-register his address on time.
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Yet another black man killed by Florida law enforcement – business as usual.
Might as well have been done with a gun…sadly that would have been kinder!
Please!!!!!! Stop using the “race card”. It doesn’t matter if he or they are black, white, red or yellow, the fact is they killed a human being. someone’s son, father, brother and no matter how you cut it, it is still wrong. (sarcasm) Thanks Floriduh.
G.W., you are correct. We need to start thinking of each other as humans and quit trying to put people in ‘groups’. That is what some legislators are doing…there are people and then there are ‘sex offenders. That as we all know is wrong. We all have value if we will only choose to exercise it. Having spent 29 years in the military I have come to know we all bleed ‘red blood’. It is up to all of us to prove to the paranoid legislators that they are wrong. I look forward to the day that we get an apology. And I do believe that is coming one day.
I was in a Michigan prison when a 21-year-old young man died after being restrained to a table for a long period. His crime was shoplifting, and then threatening police with a pocket knife and asking them to shoot him. Obviously mentally ill, but Michigan has abolished that as a defense. 60 Minutes got hold of the tape, and interviewed Patricia Caruso, the deputy director of prisons, on their show.
https://youtu.be/tQYW7Txigr0
They changed their health care for inmates, and it did get better, but went back to the same old heartless system about a year later when they rebid their health care provider contract. Low bidder wins and provides the minimum services in order to keep corporate profits higher. Watch the video to see how poorly Caruso represented the State. The young man’s mother got to watch the tape of him dying, rather than being stuck with the lies about his death that MDOC first came out with. Extremely sad, but the situation is still the same in Michigan.
This kind of thing is endemic in prisons. I lost three teeth that could have been saved if I had had proper dental care when I was in prison. I kept showing up at sick call and being sent back to the unit and told to wait for a call-out. On all three occasions (at Elkton) They refused to treat me until each tooth went into an abcess state and had to be pulled.
Also, while I was incarcerated there for my crime of journalistic curiosity I learned of at least two suspicious deaths inside of the SHU unit in solitary confnement where the inmate was beaten to death but listed as a suicide. I talked to several inmates who were also in that unit at that time. Nobody wanted to come forward however, because of fear of being the next case of that.
Still another death (heart attack) of an obese man forced to walk a good distance between his unit and the medical unit and then wait in line. He was told to come back the next day because he was too far back in line to be seen that day. Halfway back to his unit he collapsed and died. This was a low-security prison being run like a medium.
I have a friend at Mayo CI. He said he went to medical to see about a rash on his skin. They told him it was nothing and he could go back to his dorm. He asked if he could at least get some ibuprofen, and they told him no. Yet, Prick Scott is cutting the DOC rehabilitation program budget by 40% to get the health care contract funded. Wonder how crappy that medical care is going to be for them?
I watched a friend die one night in Ojibway Correctional Facility in Michigan, because health care workers refused to take his chest pains complaint seriously. I will say that one of the guards on duty tried his best with cpr for over an hour to keep him alive, and then cried when he finally died. But if the health care staff had just taken him to the hospital like they should have, he would still be alive today. Nobody to go to for a second opinion when you’re behind bars.
I would be interested in knowing who the PO was who created this violation that sent a man to his death.
The PO doesn’t have any control over what happens to a VOP in jail. A judge had to sentence the guy and the captain or warden oversaw the facility.
The PO had to create the opportunity for the judge to send this man to jail. Was what he did worthy of a trip to jail or could it have been taken care of outside the legal system? Several times in the Navy I had to ‘skirt around the rules’ to save the careers of good men. We all make mistakes but do they all need to be harsh in response to correct them? Officers are given some latitude in the conduct of their jobs so they can evaluate and take action without harming an individual’s future. No one can write a rule or regulation that is perfectly appropriate to all situations. That’s the difference in being an ‘officer’ who can evaluate a situation or just an office ‘go fer’.
Last year my neighbor’s PO sent him and 4 others who worked at the same factory back to prison for very minor infractions. They each spent just a couple of months in there, but had to start their entire 2-year paroles all over from the beginning. The factory where they worked no longer hires parolees because of it. The PO actually got disciplined for being over zealous, but the department still backed those violations. These were $16 an hour jobs that they lost. My neighbor’s “violation” was for having a utility knife in his car that was required where he worked. His previous PO had given him permission to have it, but retired. New PO wouldn’t even call the old PO to check out the story. Any one of those guys could have suffered injury or illness back in prison, and the PO would have just said they deserved it. Set their rehabilitation back considerably. Capt Munsey is exactly right that some of those PO’s enjoy the power without the realization that their job is supposed to be helping these guys get their lives back on track so they won’t pose a danger to society.
I have a friend who is a server at a local restaurant. She went to college and got her degree in criminal justice. She wanted to help youth who had gotten in trouble with the law so she got a job as a PO at a local youth holding facility. She worked at it for three months but quit. She saw that the effort was not to restore these youth but to turn them into hardened criminals. She is back at work as a server. It is difficult to find PO’s who truly want to help those that they monitor. I believe no one should be allowed to be a PO for more than five years. They become too calloused and paranoid…thus part of the problem rather than the solution.
My experience in Michigan prison actually was that most of the guards were very nice people. However, the parole agents were in some kind of competition to see who could be tougher on parolees. I was given the same paperwork three times that claimed your agent was there to help you reintegrate into society. However, mine did just the opposite, placing stumbling blocks in my way at every turn, even though I obeyed every rule. My parole was basically two years of house arrest on GPS tether, with no help at obtaining employment, and phony reasons why I couldn’t work at various places that were hiring.