Guards Worse Than Inmates, No Plan For Correction in Jails
Friday, June 23, 2006
Correction facilities, detention centers, and jails are unable to properly treat or discipline inmates. There is no plan for prisoner rehabilitation and no plan to require inmates to learn and follow a proper values based lifestyle, and officials and guards share this directionless.
Former inmate Ashley Turner was not surprised to hear that investigators had raided a federal prison to arrest guards accused of having sex with inmates. She said she was pressured by guards at the same facility.
Wednesday's raid set off a deadly shootout when one of the guards pulled a handgun on federal agents. But the confrontation also raised new questions about whether men should be assigned to guard women's facilities.
Turner said she never had sex with the guards at the Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institution, but they coerced her to strip and touch herself sexually. She said other inmates would have sex with guards in exchange for cell phones, money and marijuana.
The sex-for-contraband scheme had been going on for years, she said, and involved more than the six guards who were indicted.
"That list should probably be three times longer," said Turner, who was released in 2004 after serving slightly more than three years for bank fraud. "These are just the ones who hung around long enough to get arrested." (Columbia Daily Tribune)
Inmates should be provided with and required to do the following in a rehabilitation consisting of a regimen of three parts, which prison officials and guards should be thoroughly familiar with:
- Provide plain food, orderly housing and simple possessions, and a cardiovascular fitness plan;
- Opportunity will be afforded and required for all inmates to understand right from wrong to be applied through self-reflection, to understand the Boy Scout Motto: Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent (or similar moral code of conduct); and
- Inmates will formally submit a genuine apology to the victim(s) and to pay restitution.
This does not appear to be the plan yet of prison officials.


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