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		<title>No Justice from the Prison State on Feed 44</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[C4SS Feed 44 presents Cory Massimino&#8216;s “No Justice from the Prison State” read by Christopher B. King and edited by Nick Ford. As prison system inspectors visited Franklin Correctional Institution they discovered an incident from three years prior in which an inmate, 27-year-old Randall Jordan-Aparo, begged officer Rollin Suttle Austin, to take him to the hospital because of...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>C4SS Feed 44 presents <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/author/cory-massimino" target="_blank">Cory Massimino</a>&#8216;s “<a href="http://c4ss.org/content/32100" target="_blank">No Justice from the Prison State</a>” read by Christopher B. King and edited by Nick Ford.</p>
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<p>As prison system inspectors visited Franklin Correctional Institution they discovered an incident from three years prior in which an inmate, 27-year-old Randall Jordan-Aparo, begged officer Rollin Suttle Austin, to take him to the hospital because of a blood disorder and the officer ordered him “gassed.” Jordan-Aparo died that night.</p>
<p>The inspectors rightfully found that the fiasco constituted “sadistic, retaliatory” behavior by the guards, but they allege that when they brought their findings to Florida Department of Corrections Inspector General Jeffrey Beasley, he told them he would “have their asses” if they didn’t back off. The involved officers remain on staff, although the U.S Department of Justice is investigating the situation.</p>
<p>That makes me feel so much better&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Nessuna Giustizia dallo Stato Prigione</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2014 11:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cory Massimino]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Di recente, il dipartimento penitenziario della Florida ha licenziato 32 secondini, misura presa dopo anni di presunte corruzioni all’interno del sistema carcerario, corruzioni alle quali è legata la morte di almeno quattro carcerati. I rappresentanti sindacali hanno definito il licenziamento di massa il “massacro del venerdì sera”. Un massacro che io approvo. Scavando tra i...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Di recente, il dipartimento penitenziario della Florida ha licenziato 32 secondini, misura presa dopo anni di presunte corruzioni all’interno del sistema carcerario, corruzioni alle quali è legata la morte di almeno quattro carcerati. I rappresentanti sindacali hanno definito il licenziamento di massa il “massacro del venerdì sera”. Un massacro che io approvo.</p>
<p>Scavando tra i documenti della prigione, alcuni giornalisti hanno trovato diversi casi di abusi e di cosiddetti “usi impropri della forza”.</p>
<p>In visita all’Istituto Correzionale Franklin, gli ispettori del sistema penitenziario sono venuti a conoscenza di un incidente avvenuto tre anni prima. L’incidente aveva per protagonista un carcerato ventisettenne, Randall Jordan-Aparo, che chiedeva all’agente Rollin Suttle Austin di essere ricoverato in ospedale per via di un disturbo del sangue. L’agente diede l’ordine di “gasarlo” (pestarlo a sangue, es). Jordan-Aparo morì quella stessa notte.</p>
<p>Gli ispettori giustamente hanno definito il comportamento delle guardie “sadico e vendicativo”. Ma, dicono, quando i risultati degli accertamenti sono stati portati davanti all’ispettore generale del dipartimento penitenziario della Florida Jeffrey Beasley, quest’ultimo ha risposto: “vi faccio fottere” se non ve ne andate. Nonostante il dipartimento federale della giustizia continui con le indagini, gli agenti coinvolti restano in servizio.</p>
<p>Questo mi fa sentire molto meglio…</p>
<p>Un altro incidente vide coinvolto un carcerato con disturbi mentali, Darren Rainey; dopo aver defecato nella cella fu rinchiuso dagli agenti nel box doccia, “bombardato con acqua bollente,” insultato e lasciato a morire. Testimoni dichiarano di averlo trovato nel piatto doccia con la pelle a brandelli.</p>
<p>Questi incidenti di male puro sono considerati semplici storie da chi si sforza di giustificare lo stato prigione. Quanti altri esempi di abusi odiosi occorrono per capire che il problema è strutturale? Quanto altro sangue deve finire sulle mani dei carcerieri perché siano considerati, correttamente, nemici e non protettori di una società pacifica?</p>
<p>Se da un lato le vittime sono semplici nomi su un pezzo di carta per i vari funzionari di stato che fingono di interessarsi ai loro casi, dall’altro erano persone vere, in carne ed ossa, che hanno sofferto le pene della tortura per mano dello stato prigione. Randall Jordan-Aparo e Darren Rainey non sono semplici storie. Sono esempi di un problema istituzionale molto più grande.</p>
<p>Ecco perché i licenziamenti non risolveranno nulla. Gli abusi dello stato prigione, nella loro tristezza, sono una conseguenza prevedibile del fatto che la “giustizia” è affidata al monopolio dello stato. Lo stato prigione è un sistema oppressivo che rende normali gli abusi di potere e gli atti di terrore lasciando i carcerati alla mercé di guardie prive di responsabilità.</p>
<p>La mancanza di responsabilità, come nel caso dell’agente Austin, è un fatto normale. La logica interna del sistema carcerario monopolistico semplicemente non incentiva a tenere a bada le guardie carcerarie. Solo quando qualche giornalista esterno scava nei rapporti, il che accade raramente, lo stato è costretto ad agire “responsabilmente”. E anche allora la risposta è spesso più uno spettacolo fatto per placare il pubblico che un cambiamento reale. Dopotutto, un vero cambiamento comporterebbe l’estinzione del potere statale: l’ultima cosa che un funzionario di stato vorrebbe permettere.</p>
<p>Ci sono voluti tre anni perché la morte di Randall Jordan-Aparo venisse alla luce, e tutto quello che abbiamo è una “indagine”, il sonnifero preferito dallo stato. Un’indagine sembra una ricerca della responsabilità, ma in realtà non lo è affatto. Una vera e propria responsabilità si potrebbe avere solo con la dispersione del potere, ovvero con l’abolizione dell’intero sistema.</p>
<p>Lo stato reclama il monopolio della giustizia, ma non è così. La verità è che lo stato elimina ogni possibilità di giustizia.</p>
<p><a href="http://pulgarias.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Traduzione di Enrico Sanna</a>.</p>
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		<title>No Justice from the Prison State</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida&#8217;s Department of Corrections recently fired 32 guards after years of alleged corruption in the prison system with at least four related inmate deaths. Union officials call the mass layoff a “Friday night massacre.” Now that’s one massacre I can get behind. Reporters digging deeper into the prison records found multiple incidents of abuse and so-called...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Florida&#8217;s Department of Corrections recently <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article2176191.html" target="_blank">fired 32 guards</a> after years of alleged corruption in the prison system with at least four related inmate deaths. Union officials call the mass layoff a “Friday night massacre.” Now that’s one massacre I can get behind.</p>
<p>Reporters digging deeper into the prison records found multiple incidents of abuse and so-called “inappropriate uses of force.”</p>
<p>As prison system inspectors visited Franklin Correctional Institution they discovered an incident from three years prior in which an inmate, 27-year-old Randall Jordan-Aparo, begged officer Rollin Suttle Austin, to take him to the hospital because of a blood disorder and the officer ordered him &#8220;gassed.&#8221; Jordan-Aparo died that night.</p>
<p>The inspectors rightfully found that the fiasco constituted “sadistic, retaliatory” behavior by the guards, but they allege that when they brought their findings to Florida Department of Corrections Inspector General Jeffrey Beasley, he told them he would “have their asses” if they didn&#8217;t back off. The involved officers remain on staff, although the U.S Department of Justice is investigating the situation.</p>
<p>That makes me feel so much better …</p>
<p>Another incident involved mentally ill inmate Darren Rainey; after defecating in his cell he was locked in a closet like shower, &#8220;blasted by hot water,&#8221; taunted and then abandoned by officers to die. Witnesses report he was found on the shower drain with chunks of his skin falling off.</p>
<p>These incidents of pure evil are deemed anecdotal by those who continue to try and justify the prison state. How many examples of despicable abuse will it take for people to realize the problem is structural? How much more blood will prison guards have to get on their hands until they are rightly viewed as enemies of a peaceful society, rather than its protectors?</p>
<p>While the victims are merely names on a paper for various state functionaries to pretend to look into, they were real, flesh and blood individuals who suffered sickening torture at the hands of the prison state. Randall Jordan-Aparo and Darren Rainey are not anecdotes. Rather, they are examples of a much bigger, institutional problem.</p>
<p>That’s why the layoffs are not going to solve anything. The abuses of the prison state, while sad, are a predictable consequence of handing &#8220;justice&#8221; over to a state monopoly. The prison state is a system of oppression that normalizes abuses of power and acts of terror, leaving inmates at the mercy of unaccountable guards.</p>
<p>Unaccountability, as in the case of officer Austin, is routine. There are simply no incentives for the inner workings of the prison monopoly to tend toward keeping guards’ power in check. Only when outside reporters delve into the reports &#8212; a rare occurrence &#8212; is the state forced to act &#8220;responsibly.&#8221; And even then, the response is often mere show to appease the public rather than actual change. After all, real change would involve relinquishing state power – the last thing state functionaries will allow.</p>
<p>It took three years for Randall Jordan-Aparo&#8217;s death to even come to light and now all we get is an &#8220;investigation&#8221; &#8212; the state’s favorite appeasement technique. While it looks like accountability, an investigation by a fellow state functionary is no such thing. Real, true accountability is only achievable through a dispersion of power &#8212; and that means abolishing the whole system.</p>
<p>The state claims a monopoly on justice, but that&#8217;s not the real truth. The real truth is that the state removes any chances of justice.</p>
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