a step in the right direction

since 1989,

over 200 exonerated prisoners

have walked because of DNA

evidence revealing their lack of

guilt &

10 or so “successful” executions

have been performed,

ending the lives of individuals

whose guilt was found to be of

great suspect, post-mortem---

as the 2.3 million or so

(highest per capita rate of prisoners

in the world), piled &

stuffed into incarceration all over

the empire continues to grow,

there are said to be anywhere

between 44,000 & 80,000

of these individuals, locked away

in solitary confinement.

 

maximum security prisons weren’t

enough apparently &

so the construction of the “supermax”

has brought a new spin to the tossing

of citizens into garbage cans, where in an

act of complete lack of responsibility &

ignorance, a smaller garbage can inside

the larger, has become the norm &

not the exception for those individuals

within the prison system.

 

Anthony Graves’ own testimony

at the first US Senate hearing of its kind

addressing the psychological torture &

human rights abuses occurring in supermax

isolation, detailed the utterly horrible &

desperate conditions of his own unlawful

incarceration which stole 18 YEARS of

own his life---

10 of them which he spent in

solitary.

 

the fact that this hearing took place is

a step in the right direction, for the abuse

of the abuser (if in fact said individual is

even guilty) does nothing but perpetuate

the violence wielded on society,

by society & none of us are innocent in

this, but the questions concerning what goes

on in prisons should not end here,

it should BEGIN & though people like

Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois seem to have

their heart in the right place,

he is just one man & a politician at that

(with hands bound to do the bidding of those

that fund his election)---

it is WE, the public on the outside,

the family & the friends,

the concerned & the outraged,

who need to step forward &

speak out against the powers that be,

so that those on the inside might gain

education, become rehabilitated &

have a REAL chance in the world that

spit them out the first time around.

 

without this kind of compassion &

defense of ALL our rights, the violence

will only increase.  

 

 

 

 

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