Hard Time America [Reader Post]

The Obama Administration is playing the convict prison card. Most Americans want criminals incarcerated longer in more austere less elaborate facilities. The facts are that many prisons have become playgrounds. Between Yale and jail this discussion will concentrate on doing hard time behind bars eliminating the “Three Hots and a Cot” leisure Plaza Hotel prison mentality. Amendment VIII of the United States Constitution asserts, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted”; then whereas, this narrative will focus on the enlightened humanitarian side of incarceration it will also examine innovative and possibly pertinent means and methods more substantive to addressing today’s social realities. This analysis will be confined to punishment of the Big Three; namely, murder, rape, terrorism in a societal situation where death by execution no longer is an available option. There have been criminals like Richard Speck, Charlie Manson and many others that instead of death penalty executions are held in prison, costing taxpayers millions of dollars, until they finally gasp their last and die from natural causes. Unforgettable, the photograph of a mocking jerk smile Richard Speck, killer of six slaughtered and raped Philippines nurses, seen gloating in an open door prison cell at Statesville Prison Illinois propped up on the cell bed wall hugging “his husband’ while wearing nothing but pink brief underwear. There is something seriously wrong here, if this evolution of incarceration continues every prison will, along with free medical, dental, and legal services, have an environment featuring exercise equipment including all the latest gadgets, bowling alleys, billiard tables, all tastes pornography available cable television, cellular telephones and computers with www access; plus, ample supplies of drugs and alcohol while including “conjugal visits” from wives, girlfriends, and even prostitutes including pregnancy care paid by the prison.

In the very affluent Cheshire Connecticut, on July 23 2007, a home invasion multiple murders took place when a physician’s wife and mother with her two daughters were raped, set ablaze, and then murdered in one of the most heinous crimes scenes ever recorded. The prime murderer is one Steven Hayes, then on parole with a rap sheet dated back to 1981, and Joshua Komisarjevsky his dimwitted, long criminal record, accomplish. Officially, Hayes has been tried by a jury, convicted, and sentenced to death even though Connecticut liberal state politicians continue to debate “humanitarian principles” that will eliminate the death penalty. Recently, Hayes was seen sitting relaxed reading a Toni Morrison romance novel, provided by the prison library, while noshing on a Snickers Bar surrounded by bags of potato chips and other snacks from the prison commissary. His jail cell is swept, mopped and cleaned twice weekly when a fresh set of linens is also provided.

People are frightened; take any urban bus, subway or travel by train or plane and the sublime sensation haunts that someone nearby has done hard time in prison. Just earlier this month, two young guys visiting from England were mercilessly slain in a lowlife neighborhood of Sarasota Florida. The first arrest suspect is a teenager gang member whom just a week earlier was set free from county jail by a district judge. These first news reports, from the major media sources, blamed the victims saying they were druggies looking to purchase narcotics in a seedy neighborhood. Those reports were soon found to be completely false, no drugs found on the victims, and the truth was they were just two innocent college aged British tourists who tried to hitch a free ride back to their hotel. Obama, and his prejudiced acolyte Attorney General Erik Holder, wants divisiveness; they are constantly using the race card regarding societal crime and incarceration; which means, they plan to hold onto their slanted extreme expression of demagoguery and deceit when dealing with the threat of crime in America.

Recently reported, the story which prompted this narrative, was an article reprinted through Flopping Aces that Charlie Manson, infamous for the Tate-LaBianca seven victim Manson Family murder spree, was contacted, using his cell phone, by some news wonk (Spain Vanity Fair) where he touted to the journalist his beliefs in the threat of climate change global warming. Charlie’s attitude on greeniac environmental conditions are completely irrelevant but the notion that he has access to wireless telephone communications does prompt serious concerns. Is cell phone communications now a protected right safe guarded and subsidized by the taxpayers of the State of California? ‘Guards at Corcoran State Prison found the phone, according to prison spokeswoman Terry Thornton, and Manson was charged with violating prison rules, but not with a crime, because there is no law in California that prohibits inmates from possessing phones.” (Los Angelus Times) This is a prime example of social insanity; Charlie Manson is just one convict so the indications are there must be many others that have these devices plus extra privileges. From his book Helter Skelter the former LA Prosecutor Vincent Pugliesi commented on Charlie’s smug attitude when being convicted to prison, “No problem, I always get sex in prison!” Such a vulgar statement, from a guy living in a taxpayer paid air conditioned climate controlled facility, makes that complaint even the more repulsive.

People are furious with reports of what actually happens behind prison walls; this does not mean the public wants dungeons but the anger signals are the desire for greater rationality regarding the housing and care of convicted prisoners. People want an end to the revolving doors recidivism plaque that is plunging American society into even greater depths of fear, terror and chaos. Charlie Manson receives, at his request, among other amenities, taxpayer paid dental services. What takes place is that as private people struggle to pay for tooth aches, dentures, tooth replacements, and facial reconstructions those in prison, like Manson, get seated and cared for as instructive cases seen by both dental school students, using the most modern state-of-the-arts equipment, and dentist instructors. The patient time perhaps is a bit longer for some procedure but for the cause of professional education of dentists, oral hygienists, endodontists, and orthodontists a little extra wait is worth it. Next, Charlie, at age 79, living most his life behind bars, cannot be allowed to grow old and croak when California’s best medicine could keep him breathing perhaps for another twenty years. With the slightest physical complaint, mental too, Manson is quickly put on a gurney to be transported to the prison’s hospital quality level infirmary where the entire menu of medical pain killers plus other meds, are but a physician’s script away. With pharmaceutical transport restrictions and internal distribution narcotics controls that dose of Oxy-Codone or Percodan will soon cost California taxpayers well over a hundred bucks per tab. As some reluctantly admit, “the best place to experience socialized medicine is in jail.”

Food is another story altogether. Besides the “Three Hots and a Cot” from the Cook County Jail mess hall scene in The Blue Brothers movie some felons have access to more various, tasty and different grub (certain diets for certain cultures, like halal). The movie Goodfellas was not far off course where some big shots get their own kitchens with fresh foods making their own meals. Last month, at a facility in upper New York State, a prisoner received a birthday cake, not on his birthday, from girlfriend and members of his family that when the cake was tested guards discovered a slew of illegal drugs hidden beneath the icing.

Whatever constraints imposed by the public are immediately challenged by the taxpayer paid Criminal Bar that offers free legal services to convicts. Charlie’s lawyer, Gionanni DiStefano, is diligent attempting to get Manson out on parole; so, riding that downtown bus could mean a convicted mass murderer sitting in the next seat. What can be done to stop these obstructive attacks on our society from those criminal bar extreme leftist ACLU lawyers (Erik Holder, et al) that uses the words and protections proffered from our Constitution as if it were a suicide pact designed to threaten instead of protect the People? Perhaps it is appropriate to pass through the looking glass and see the problem from an entirely different angle. Every Charlie Manson in the penal system costs society the expenses of facility housing, personal care and legal representation so what assets are available to shift to new options? First Charlie’s jailbird license plate reads CAL: B-33920 and as long as he has that prison id-card he will remain a societal cost/benefit problem thus the answer is to eliminate that number. Say, for this analysis, that one day attorney DiStefano arrives at Corcoran State Penal Facility only to be informed that inmate B-33920 has disappeared; that’s right, Charlie Manson has gone poof. For this example, what has happened is Manson is no longer the property of the State of California and that Charlie has been purchased, call it one million dollars, from California by the federal government and that then that prisoner is to be set free on some remote inaccessible and impossible to escape ocean island (Midway Island or a remote Aleutian). The plan would be to have several 100 bed slab Quonset huts pre-built along with a warehouse stacked with canned foods; plus, shore nets, fishing poles and other tackle gear along with adequate supplies of sardines for bait. Include a year’s supply of bottled drinking water and that’s it. Imagine, that on some isolated island Charlie Manson is “set free” with just a backpack, sleeping bad and full canteen. No problem, if he lives another ten minutes or twenty years because he no longer is a cost/benefit penal system liability; the murderer is left to wander in a community of fellow murderers and if things go bad because of weather, earthquakes, tsunamis or the moke in the next cot “Tooo Bad”.