The
Anatomy of the Kingman Investigation
Without a
doubt, the Arizona Department of Corrections will deliver a well-written politically
correct outline of minor failures to our Governor in relation to the governor’s
assigned task of providing a full probe of the Kingman riots which occurred between
July1st and July 4th. This report will contain an element of disappointments that
will set a tone for additional actions recommended to be taken to rectify this
unstable situation at the Management Training Corporation prison complex, ASPC
Kingman, under contract with our prison agency.
This
investigation will reveal numerous steps of failures but disguised as momentary
or minor letdowns. Few actual failures will be mentioned, focusing on those which
have happened before [matter of record] prior to the riot and not completely permanent
but rather, emphasis for improvements will be fixed or smoothed over with a
broad brush and creative writing skills. There will be certain pre-disposed and
chosen political characteristics within this investigative packet. It will be
easy to predict what went wrong and how it will be handled. This is an abstract
of the investigation.
Correcting the
problems at MTC will take hard work. Suggesting real solutions would be
practical but it will focus more on criticism of events rather than solutions.
The DOC will be passive in their wishes that MTC would conduct business in a
more structured and transparent manner. It will mention the fatigue of officers
working overtime to fill the vacancies and how MTC staffing burns the candle at
both ends. It will outline a weak and impractical plan to show corrective steps
taken or to be taken. This includes limiting words, actions, and policy guidelines
to firm up the communication aspect of the expectations.
They [DOC] will
close their eyes on internal political matters and focus on external public
relations matters. There goals will be infinitive tone, in nature and fairness
to the corporate setting defining successes rather than failures. There will be
no definite roadmap or blueprint in this investigation. It will be planted
firmly with suggestions and recommendations but weak in enforcement or
implementation methods.
This investigation
will protect the MTC name and reputation. It will hail successes more than the
failures. The tone will allow competency to unfold rather than the opposite. MTC
will be offered redemption and identified to have learned from the situation and
that this riot was an education for many including the DOC playing a
partnership that is solid and undoubting.
There will be
no mention of a status quo or retroactive flaws in management failures or
language that “rocks the boat” mentioning that there are other ways of doing
things and that MTC has an opportunity to do better and learn from this education
of events. The entire report will float in calm waters and with challenges to
try to find alternatives to current practice.it will be passive in tone and
ensure the governor, the way they handled this situation was appropriately done
and done in the same way they have always done praising this method will
eventually produce better results than the current pace and performance.
The report will
contain damage assessments and justify the actual costs with the intensity of the
situation at hand and the inmate’s volatile behaviors shifting the entire blame
of this riot on the prisoners. It will lose sight of management issues and
dwell into operational errors combined with overwhelming odds of a hostile prison
population that was out of control. There will be mention of values and how
these values were either preserved or maintained showing infrastructural strengths
rather than weaknesses.]
Management skill
key words will include words like stamina, perseverance, commitment and
underrate any other imperfections to preserve the integrity of MTC principles
and practices. The DOC will not input on control, backseat driving or
micromanaging MTC. These are all self-admits of a deeper management problem
that will not or cannot be expressed. This will result in words that praise or
laud MTC to show they did precisely those things that needed to be done without
hesitation or doubt.
This
after-action report shall identify a strong team spirit, with promises to
improve this link between government and contractors. They shall avoid conflict
between this hybrid governance arrangement and focus positive toned terminology
on building a culture of mutual respect and meaning indicating their
relationship is coming closer together through adversities such as this moment
of concern.
Money will be
mentioned and suggestions will be made to improve the matter of expediency to
ensure funding is adequate for human resource staffing needs and operational and
logistical resources. It may even suggest paying more money to help MTC get on
track. There will be bending of the truths and no mentions of botches or specific
“fall back” to anything incriminating. It will praise MTC as industrious,
trustworthy and a good public safety partner.
Basically the
entire focus on this report will be written with a tunnel vision style of
projection. It will try to demonstrate more on future successes than failures
of the past. The report will focus on perceived obstacles and the removal of
such barriers to allow a more transparent process to take place that hastens
and clears paths of communications related to critical elements of the command
structure and operational values. No breaches of the perimeter will be
specifically mentioned to assure the community was safe at all times.
The report will
include a lengthy conclusive statement that will inject words of confidence and
less worry on past mistakes. Praising the efforts with challenges in regional
or demographical areas will illustrate drawbacks beyond the corporate’s
control. It won’t get bogged down in details and focus on excellence instead. There
will be strong assurances of corrective action plans and perfection of links to
improve the entire situation to be more proactive than reactive in a management
style manner.
It will
reassure working out circumstances cleared up quicker and clearer with concise
command decision-making processes delivered in new and upgraded training module
and lesson plans. The DOC will reiterate MTC’s commitment to make long-run
sacrifices with promises of immediate short term gains and establish a
strategic plan for long term and sustainability for the future.
There will be assurances
of not cutting costs, corners and other areas where there were questionable
skimping practices and show immediate improvements as the bottom line with a
conclusive closing statement that the state has a solid investment with MTC and
that this partnership will show successful and immediate returns for the state
and the community.
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