I did 85% of a 9 year sentence at Lewis. I started out at Stiner where I was able to secure a position with a telemarketing outfit which paid like $3.25 per hour. I only sold like one thing in 2/3 weeks, so they let me go. After I dropped below 5 years they sent me to Bachman where I got a job at CME (Swift) which also paid $3.25 per hour. While I was there they took on an additional night shift, which didn't work out, so when they scaled back, they let a bunch of us go. I then managed to secure a position at Hickman's and was moved to Sunrise. There were only two houses and 100 people there, so you hardly ever saw any cops. After I was let go at Hickman's, I was sent back to Bachman and got a job driving Trams around the complex for $.45 per hour. About that time, they decided to turn Bachman into a PC yard, and moved half the inmates to other yards, but moved any of us with jobs to Eagle Point. Eventually, the PC's filed suit, claiming discrimination because they couldn't qualify for any jobs outside of their own yard, so they gave them all of the complex jobs, which included mine as a Tram driver. I was fortunate enough to acquire a position as the Librarian at Eagle Point, following the demise of my boss, the previous Librarian, who died elsewhere under some rather tragic and questionable circumstances. Stiner was supposedly one of the worst yards within the whole system. I believe 15 people were killed there in the 15 months that I spent on that yard. Lifer's cannot go below a 3 yard, so there were some pretty tough customers there. When I first arrived at Stiner, we were allowed to move freely anywhere within the building, and back and forth from the yard during rec time. However, it changed to having movement only at rec time, before I left. Bachman was kind of a snap, no real problems there at all. Both Sunrise and Eagle Point were once Juvenile facilities, I heard; so we all had 2 man rooms. The inmates ran a pretty tight ship at Sunrise. There were no drugs allowed, as everyone was pretty keen about keeping their positions at Hickman's. We were nevertheless subject to strip searches every time we returned to the yard, and a urinalysis once a month. Any offsite position required a high school diploma or GED. I had a GED from the Army, but they charged $25.00 to send away for records, so I just signed up for school there at Stiner, and then completed a second GED. WTF, right? $25.00 is a lot of money in prison. And, it's not as if I had anything better to do. I'm from California myself, so doing time in Arizona was nothing compared to what it would have been like back in Cali. Thank (god) for that. And, additionally, I hit 50 just before I arrived on the yard, and was thus given OG status, which exempted me from some of the stuff; but, there wasn't really all that much to have to be concerned about in any event. I thought everything went pretty smoothly, especially if you kept your nose clean and didn't get involved in any of the drama. There were no cops at CME, and none that you ever really saw at Hickman's either. Everyone just basically did their jobs, and no one ever bothered us. As a Tram driver for 2 1/2 years, I interacted with more cops than inmates, and more than 99% of them were just decent hardworking people that never got out of line with ya'. All in all, my time went pretty fast, and thanks primarily to the ACI jobs, I got out with $3300.00 in my retention fund, and then moved directly into a Veteran's program which has taken real good care of me ever since. Life in prison, like life in general, is whatever you want to make of it. Thanks to the order maintained by the staff there, my life in prison was far less tumultuous than it was on the outside. I was there as a result of my first and only offense, and I cannot defend myself and/or my actions without going deeply into the inequities of the so-called criminal justice system, which itself is severely broken. And besides you probably wouldn't believe me anyway. It's one of those things that you just have to be able to see for yourself. I once heard it said that life is the process of learning too late that which you should already know. Well, just about everything you've ever heard has some truth to it, and I've seen both sides. I keep to myself now, just as I did in prison and it suits me just fine. Personally, I think there's a lot more crazies out on the street than there are in prison. Prison is serious, so you don't wanna' fuck around. But the street is like absolute chaos. People are nothing more than animals with the potential to be so much more than that. But all they do is run around copying everybody else. The Ancient Greeks knew that, and had a whole school of thought surrounding mimesis (mimicry). Plato said you are what (form) or idea that you participate in. Man learned how to survive by copying all the other living things, and mostly animals. You wanna' make a big issue out of Critical Race Theory, try thinking about the fact that everything in this world is either predatory or parasitic in nature. Or that they have managed to convince you that sex is glorious, and that if you're not prolific at it, then there must be something wrong with you. Personally, I've got no problem with someone who is attracted to somebody of the same sex. But people seem to associate sex with love, and therefore engage in sex with whoever they're attracted to. Believe me, there is no connection between the two. It's all about seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. Life is hard and then you die. We learn from our mistakes. Or, we just keep repeating history. We live in an imaginary construct, it's like a game, and there are certain rules you have to follow. And there are about seventy different concepts, principles, and ideals that you have to practice in order to become a human being. And it's got nothing to do with being a well-conditioned wage slave that can't hardly do anything without screwing it up. We need to change the paradigm's, and we need to think about what we're headed towards.

RAW TRUTH! Prison Is A Business And YOU Are The Commodity.

Arizona prisons are a warehouse of humans.its a big money maker for the state

The reporter said, every year more people in Arizona are getting locked up; so more prisons are needed. That's the case in many places. California, Texas, Neveda; Florida and more. It's because prison in this country is a business. The prisons; businesses and state governments profit from people being locked up. There are a lot, and an increasing number of jobs behind bars. And as the countries population continues to increase, due largely to the growth of minority, and lower class Americans. The system has a larger number of its preferred targets of incarceration.

Build more schools, less prisons 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

IT.S A CROOKED SYSTEM

50 Million for only 500 prisoners!

That whole process that news guy just showed us takes 4 DAYS they forgot to meantion. No bed no pillow just cold concrete and only bread with peanut butter twice a day....

They spend all their money on Mr.Oliva and his 100.000 kcal diet.

Arizona is a very dangerous place to live or even visit. It is a weird state where politicians get elected by showing their bigotry, and police, prosecutors, and judges by applying it. It is extremely set against minorities, particularly middle eastern, Latinos, and blacks. although being white doesn't always mean getting treated with justice, as many have discovered. This state has strange laws that aim at jailing the most number of people to satisfy special interest. Arizona takes the funds out of schools to hire more police and build more torture jails and prisons. For your safety, and the safety of your family, stay away from this fascist state with racist population. Seeing the Grand Canyon isn't worth your life.

My tio is up in there right now doing life without parole

This Intel should immediately trigger a response. Attacks on inmates demonstrates lack of control by Correctional officers and puts them in serious danger. This should not be happening in this day and age. Before inmates get out of cell (shot caller), the inmates in leadership positions need to have waist chains and handcuffs Isolation and lack of time outside of cell or Pod is extremely reduced. Work to keep inmates safe and it will also provide protection for staff. Act before you have to react to violent behavior. Use information that is readily evident in these turbulent cell blocks..

So this is how the number game works - do you know that every time we go upstate to prison it is “ching ching” you know they got this thing called Gerrymandering which is where they send you 100 - 200 miles away so what that means that all the money that comes from your hood goes upstate - cuz every time they do the census count they have to count you in that county as if you’re a resident of that county. When they do that they say we have an exploding population - we need more money to build more hospitals, more schools and roads. Where those folks are never gonna use - the fact of the matter is the person that going to make it possible for them to secure that money is the elected official up there who is representing his real constituents. And why - because you locked up and you can’t vote.

Did time in buckeye lewis complex level 4 morey unit they dont give you shyt no towels cold food all that and its nasty

I remeber this news anchor host in the beggining from ellie sechback videos.l

My brothers been in here for 9 years..

I was in Lewis on Bachman and Steiner. In 2005/2008 They didnt have shit for programs, the school was lame and the library sucked. On Steiner we got 2 1/2 hours of Rec a day. They must have gotten a new warden after the last one had a Price on his head

1. It is a crime to force someone to sleep on a high top bunk without protecting them from falling. 2. And denying them oxygen by not allowing them have windows that open forcing them to breathe carbon dioxide from the air that was breathed out. 3. And it is a crime to force women to sleep on hard concrete with nothing but a thin pad and without body pillows because she has large hips that require different bed then a man. She needs a soft bed so her hips will not be forcing her spine out of alglingement and she needs body pillows to support her legs and hips so they do not bend off alignment all night causing spine and joint damage unlike in a mans body. This is not a luxury but a severe necessity. 4. It is a severe crime to force women to deliver babies without them having back support to lean on so they can relax the muscles so they wont tear their vaginas. And keeping them chained to the bed for hours during delivery not being able to reposition causing a high risk of forming a blood clot because of putting weight on one spot for too long. Blood clots are deadly. And causing her extra stress and pain added onto the tremendous trauma of going through the birth. It is mans sadism over a woman. 5. It is a sever crime taking babies away from mothers and forcing these babies to eat artificial man made food and food that was designed for animal babies and not human babies. A baby that is an innocent person and had nothing to do with the mothers wrong doing. 6. It can be a crime to tase women because these tasers kill their unborn babies. It is killing an unborn baby. 7. It is a crime to force women on chemical birth controls as they sterilize her and damage her brain and body. 8. It is a crime to sterilize women and man by force. 9. It is a crime to use peoples bodies that are incarcerated for experimentations. 10. It is a crime to force drugs on someone. 11. It is injustice to take someone to court without letting them speak on their own behalf and not letting them present evidence and loosing evidence with taking away persons things after arrest disregarding their evidence. Evidence without which they wont be able to prove what happened to them and a court where you get prisoned if you do not prove your innocence. This kind of situation can be used to frame people. Especially that a group of peoples testimony can put an another person to prison for life or worse. This can be used to remove people. from society that have been framed. If one person can lie so can an organized group. 12. It is injustice to condemn someone because we do not have all the facts and we will not have them here even if the person looked guilty they can be completely innocent and just not having evidence to prove it. Or having a jury that is not enough informed or not being able to understand what happened. Judging on assumptions instead true facts. In todays generation when people are becoming cyborgs how can the jury know these things without taking educational training first and having aces to that information. This kind of training can take a very long time. Because these chips can be hacked and will be hacked and that steal the persons body. It's like your computer getting hacked. You would not throw your computer away just because it got hacked ! 13. It is a crime to take people to court and not letting their families and friends come especially in smaller non mafia offenses or doings in question. 14. It is a crime to put homeless people in prison because they had no place to stay. 15. It is a crime to put people in prisons because they have some health problems. 14. It is a crime not to forgive someone for the wrong that they have done ! It is stealing of mercy !

I got a great fucking idea if your any murder automatically exicuted if your a raper automatically exicuted that should clean it up a bit and make more room for someone else a

I've seen some of these people work at Hickman Farm in Arlington, I've pass this prison in the truck number of time.

Dear people of america, The United States prison system has been a costly and harmful failure in recent years. It has also become big business and a large source of revenue despite what the government claims. As of 2011a combined total of 6,977,700 were either incarcerated in a federal or state prison or on parole which means that the United States has the highest inmate population on the planet. Arresting and incarcerating American citizens has become the new slave trade in America. A large percentage of inmates work daily for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the U.S. prison industrial complex, it has been like finding a pot of gold. They don't have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or worker's compensation time. All of their workers are full-time and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems; moreover if they don't like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work they are locked up in isolation cells.

$50 million would buy land military tents, military rations! Have them work the land and raise vegetables and cows and pigs! $50million would buy years worth of all of that!!

I just got out like three days ago...they make it sound so sweet...smh..

It’s pretty embarrassing that we have the worlds most incarcerated people. Are we the greatest country in the world?

Lucky Charles didn't end up in prison.

Who gives a rats ass about the "safety" of inmates?

PC yard or what??

If your going be incarcerated in prison your for sure going to want the best of it!

Paradise compared to Madagascar prison lol

These is where mr.unchained cells

Mo Money Mo Money Mo money

,where is death row

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is this a gp

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My uncle is in one of these places

Hahaha 😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂 .. fuckin joke😁 .

I think it's BS how people say a life sentence is more justice than the death penalty. These people get to play outside 20 hours a day. But the victims familes will never be able to play outside with their loved ones who were taken. THAT'S NOT JUSTICE!

They should be breaking rocks, not working out.

CHERUB Anyone?

Prison these days are camps where guys go to relax and get healthy then get out stronger

should be able to exicute at least 35 people a day

Is Jodi arias here. ?

We r Indians so how is that they could get us with the Rico

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good thi g they let em out

mostly pc yard

Yes let them out to the yard more time because that's the punishment they deserve for committing crimes

Prison sucks

Why build prisons for these incurable thugs? They are expensive and more and more are needed. It should also be considered that prisons can also be easily emptied in other ways on the cheap. No one suffers, death is a good option and cheap. There are great new methods where people don't need to cause suffering when they die. At some point, we're going to have to start thinking about new options to get the crime and the perpetrators out. Of course, no one should be treated cruelly, but should be subjected to a journey.

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