Carousel of
Corruption
Certainly, you
may have you noticed since the Kingman riots, there seems to be a bit of
unpopular curmudgeon-like complaints about the carousel of corrections- and
corruption? Looking at a carousel, you can certainly envision a machine like
merry go round that is more elaborate in detail than you could ever imagine.
Certainly, the
corrections department carousel is one of the most elaborate kind there is as
it is an intricate system made up of smaller pieces that get lost easily and
hardly traceable in many ways. Today, many pieces are broken or misplaced.
The carousel is
part of a never-ending story. A never-ending renovation process and a
never-ending tale of corruption and mistakes. Prison management in Arizona is a
funny matter except that it involves life and death situations most of the time
as well as millions dollars’ worth of destroyed property yearly.
Causing
confusion to keep the media and public under a blanket of clouded disorder and
hazed like fog, the conundrum of their ways leads us to the puzzle palace on
the fourth floor in Phoenix high-rise on Jefferson Street. Most of the time it
remains to be whirling around leaving everybody behind on solving the puzzles
and lacking sufficient clues to solve the problems at hand.
The methodology
to keep us confused is beneficial for those operating the carousel. To them its
clean fun, a whole renovation process, that keeps them employed with the kind
of job security that reeks the smell of sabotage.
I guess what
bothers me the most is that when I see such waste and expensive renovation and
reconstruction of our prison systems, I think about the meager wages our
officer, the backbone of the agency receives as their salaries are but a
fraction of the fat cats on the fourth floor who operate this carousel of
corruption.
I think about
the stipend revoked and safer workplace conditions promised and then, not paid
or not delivered. I am sure there are ethical and moral principles at work here
but as the governor has turned a blind eye to this carousel which works for
him, it is pretty much a done deal and over.
Funding this
carousel is less attractive each day. The investment in public safety has
suffered badly and the negligence of the grandiose command structure decimates
the modest and weakened infrastructure that runs the entire agency but with an
expenditure which appears to be designed for private gain and eventually, we
can’t hardly afford to keep running it this way.
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