I have recently come back to corrections after being out of a facility for 9 years, and you know what, I remember why I left in the first place… I hate inmates. I hate their logic. Their motives. I hate their smell. I hate the smell of a prison. They all smell the same. A cross between body odor and cleaning agents. Anyway this is about inmates not the prison itself…
I am not a member of the Hug-A-Thug foundation. I believe that these individuals that have committed crimes against society should be treated as animals and nothing more. They have no rights. As soon as they willfully broke the laws that govern society, they willfully forfeited all rights associated with society. As soon as they were sentenced in a court of law that governs society, they ceased to have any rights to society at all. Once they avail themselves of the criminal justice system, once they have actually entered the system, they become property of the state. And the state can do whatever they choose with their property.
I see objections coming to this line of reasoning; however I am prepared for them. I have thought this through since the first day I stepped into a prison in 2001. There is precedent that really doesn’t bode well for anyone. There is also a few slippery-slope arguments, but this doesn’t concern me.
What does concern me is the fact that taxpayers are footing the bill for these rejecta to live better than most in some cases. On average 30,000 a year per inmate is doled out to help them transition back into society. Do you know what 30,000 a year per inmate equates to? I don’t either and really don’t want to figure it out. I am not trying to make any formal arguments I just think it is crap that a guy who kidnapped a girl, raped her, and then escaped from custody lives better than most of the ‘working’ people in my neighborhood. Why should they be rewarded for a life of crime? Some have such a better life on the inside that they prefer to be incarcerated. Why worry about anything when you can fuck up and get better care in the system. Instead of making life better for them I think we should make it worse. I think we should be them 23 hours a day, 7 days a week. I think on holidays we should beat them twice as hard and on the anniversary of the day they committed their crime we should beat them to within an inch of their lives, if not past that inch.
And no it’s not societies fault…
Statistically I should be a resident of the facility I work at not an employee. I grew the fuck up and made my life better. If I can do it trust me, anybody can.
I think EVERY crime should be a capital offense resulting in the death penalty. Why program them to function in society when it would be easier and CHEAPER to just put a bullet in their damned heads.
Well, I have to wrap this up and hit the rack. Tomorrow I must wake, put on my uniform, and walk into a facility which I despise, to show the world that I am a normal individual; to show the world that I am a bleeding heart and a card carrying member of the Hug-A-Thug Foundation. Tomorrow I have to begin anew my work week which will again result in almost no sleep. Tomorrow I have to walk in and pretend enough to play the role of professional, when in actually all I want to do is beat them until they stop moving.
If that is wrong, forgive me and kiss my ass.
Urbane Out…
~A
