Email
from a student:
Hello
Shaun,
I
found your talk at my college to be an extremely insightful experience into the
prison system and it has seriously deterred me even more so than I actually was
from committing a crime as I would not want to ruin my life's chances (if I may
put it that way) and the picture painted in my head about prisons is a very
powerful one. I just emailed to thank you for this experience that I won't
forget and I wish to ask a question or two.
1.
Although I recognise that you would change a lot about the prisons, what is
the main thing you would wish to change.
2.
After hearing the news about T-Bone would it be possible after a potential
sentence is past if it goes that far, for T - Bone to be brought to a UK prison
if necessary, if someone were to contact personnel within the American Embassy,
as he would be able to give students an insight into modern prisons and give
possible comparisons between UK prisons and US prisons, would that be possible?
3.
When did you get released?
Regards,
Andrew
My
answers:
1
The main things I would like to see changed are the illegal conditions and
guard brutality. Human rights state that inmates should receive over 1000
calories of food they can eat per day, medical treatment, sunlight and recreation, that they
shouldn’t have to sleep in insect infested environments, and the guards shouldn’t
be murdering them.
In
Phoenix, Arizona, it’s the guy at the top, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who’s responsible
for violating all of these human rights, and creating an extremely dangerous environment. A big
change I would like to see is for him to not get re-elected. Jail shouldn’t be easy,
but neither should vulnerable inmates be getting murdered by gang members and
guards. People find it hard to believe this stuff is going on, so I direct them
to the video evidence.
Here's a video of an Aryan Brother murdering
Robert Cotton (on remand for a petty crime) who refused to beat someone up for
the gang: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba_vGzkcdHQ
Here
are videos of guards murdering Marty Atencio (a Latino war hero on remand for
allegedly kicking a door) at the jail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K9PJE2wx2tA
The
maximum security Madison Street jail was shut down 2 years after I started this blog, but Arpaio opened a new high tech house of horrors down the street,
and he is the boss of 6 jails in his system, so all of this stuff is still
going on.
2
T-Bone and I would like nothing more than for him to be able to get a passport and
to share his experiences with young people in schools in the UK. Regarding transferring
him to a UK prison, that’s not possible. Arizona will make him serve all of his
time in Arizona, and as he isn’t a UK citizen nothing can be done.
I
spoke to T-Bone’s wife on the phone in Arizona. She said T-Bone allegedly went
back to cocaine and has allegedly committed crimes to get money for drugs.
Because he is considered so dangerous due to his fighting skills, it took 30
cops with riot shields and shotguns to arrest him. They even put a shotgun to a
neighbour lady's head, and asked her if she knew T-Bone.
T-Bone
has decided to take his case to trial. All we can do is wait the situation out
now, and hope that he is released soon, or if he loses the trial, that he gets
a short sentence.
3
I was released in December 2007, and I just posted my full release story here: http://jonsjailjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/question-8-locked-up-abroad-raving.html
Thanks
for your questions, Andrew. Take care out there!
Shaun
Attwood
Response
from Andrew:
Hello
Shaun,
Thank
you for your reply. I wish you never had to go through what you did, but I am
grateful that you took the time to come in and talk to us and your story will
influence me throughout my life and once again I thank you for it.
The
answers that you have given me have furthered the insight I have about how
unjust the "justice" system is in the US, and partially of what you
have told us about the UK. It also shows how much power prisons have vs the
governments, it is wrong that they should kind of rule over the government. The
whole justice system needs reforming, but unfortunately no one in higher
authority listens to the general public unless they can make money from it,
which again is a shame. I've seen two of the video's and it furthers my beliefs
and what I just said.
Thank
you for taking the time and effort to reply to me, it’s good to see that
society does have people like you that young people will listen to and take
heed of what you say, thank you again.
All
the best,
Andrew
Click
here for the previous Question Time: http://jonsjailjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/question-time_17.html
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