This this this this this. Administrative power is absolute behind the fences and walls of carceral institutions. There is a façade of accountability (starting with the informal complaint form, which is almost always summarily dismissed and almost always ends the grievance process), but a façade it is, and only that.
right...Arresting Citizenship goes into the problems with the grievance process. First of all prisoners are required to go through the whole grievance process before they have access to the courts, and the case can be thrown out if they make even technical errors with the grievance process, which incentivizes prisons to create bizarre labyrinthine processes to trip up anyone who wants to file.
and then of course the grievances have to be handed to the person who's being complained about awesome, creating opportunities for harassment and retaliation. (and that's just the start of the problems.)
Been there, done that. I've seen disabled offenders confined to wheelchairs carried away to administrative segregation for (drum roll please) not standing for count. They file their complaints and their grievances, and they never make it through the grievance process, because no administration is going to find its own rabbit-arse self guilty of gross negligence and deliberate indifference. And honestly, no outside court will do so either. ("Qualified immunity.") Further, filing an even moderate number of informal complaints just simply brings your name to the attention of the administration, who will then find reasons and ways to make your time more unbearable than it would be at baseline, which is very.
I assume it's a long shot, but I wonder if there's a way I could correspond with you less publicly. I have something I want to tell. Something I will, I swear "to all the gods that you can count" (thank you, Ian Anderson), die mad about, because of the heinousness of the gross negligence and deliberate indifference to an offender's life. Or you could send me in the direction of someone who can more effectively process what I want to say.
Exposure to such an environment renders you a profoundly, fundamentally fearful person. I am afraid of every person I meet now, because there's just no way to know; and I am afraid to join general strikes and protests because I see them as opportunities for the regime to farm my personal information so that it can target me. Worse, I have mental disabilities. There is nothing I can possibly do, and I am a prime target for RFK Jr.'s eugenics programs.
When the preview popped up on my phone, I thought the title of this piece was going to be "the road to trump was paved with mass shootings," which would have also made sense. 😭
This this this this this. Administrative power is absolute behind the fences and walls of carceral institutions. There is a façade of accountability (starting with the informal complaint form, which is almost always summarily dismissed and almost always ends the grievance process), but a façade it is, and only that.
right...Arresting Citizenship goes into the problems with the grievance process. First of all prisoners are required to go through the whole grievance process before they have access to the courts, and the case can be thrown out if they make even technical errors with the grievance process, which incentivizes prisons to create bizarre labyrinthine processes to trip up anyone who wants to file.
and then of course the grievances have to be handed to the person who's being complained about awesome, creating opportunities for harassment and retaliation. (and that's just the start of the problems.)
Been there, done that. I've seen disabled offenders confined to wheelchairs carried away to administrative segregation for (drum roll please) not standing for count. They file their complaints and their grievances, and they never make it through the grievance process, because no administration is going to find its own rabbit-arse self guilty of gross negligence and deliberate indifference. And honestly, no outside court will do so either. ("Qualified immunity.") Further, filing an even moderate number of informal complaints just simply brings your name to the attention of the administration, who will then find reasons and ways to make your time more unbearable than it would be at baseline, which is very.
I assume it's a long shot, but I wonder if there's a way I could correspond with you less publicly. I have something I want to tell. Something I will, I swear "to all the gods that you can count" (thank you, Ian Anderson), die mad about, because of the heinousness of the gross negligence and deliberate indifference to an offender's life. Or you could send me in the direction of someone who can more effectively process what I want to say.
Exposure to such an environment renders you a profoundly, fundamentally fearful person. I am afraid of every person I meet now, because there's just no way to know; and I am afraid to join general strikes and protests because I see them as opportunities for the regime to farm my personal information so that it can target me. Worse, I have mental disabilities. There is nothing I can possibly do, and I am a prime target for RFK Jr.'s eugenics programs.
Noah you connect the dots others don't see. Thank you.
When the preview popped up on my phone, I thought the title of this piece was going to be "the road to trump was paved with mass shootings," which would have also made sense. 😭
The last three paragraphs are a hell of a finishing combo!
thanks!
Yes. Thank you.
How do I share this to Spoutible?
I think you can just post the link! that should work?
9/11 was the "tipping point" event in this trend.
9/11 ended any public notion that police and firemen might not deserve the qualified immunity they often receive