tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post4971324343742189178..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Deitch on possible solutions for prisoner phone calls during COVID lockdownGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-86067650834398931322020-04-24T08:17:52.638-05:002020-04-24T08:17:52.638-05:00Let's not forget that no communication is the ...Let's not forget that no communication is the constant norm for about 10,000 TDCJ inmates held in solitary confinement (and G5), some in solitary for DECADES !<br />Their "normal " is one 5-MINUTE phone call, each 3 MONTHS. Yes, read that again.<br />One 5-minute phone call in 3 month intervals.<br />Read The Texas Observers Michael Barajas' article on ad seg in TDCJ<br />They are placed in seg, with no way to get out, for many of them. It's up to the corrupt, unethical and sadistic TDCJ minions to release them.<br />https://www.texasobserver.org/solitary-confinement-texas/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-49042749944359030702020-04-24T08:13:46.850-05:002020-04-24T08:13:46.850-05:00You are dreaming, TDCJ will never do anything like...You are dreaming, TDCJ will never do anything like that. They are so scared of Technology it is not even funny, When I taught Web Design at the Coffield Unit, one day one of the majors at the unit walked into monitor a class and saw an inmate going from page to page on a website he built. He ran from the room, believing the offender was on the internet, and in a minute there were a dozen guards and everyone was soon buck naked in the hall while they searched the room. Even after explaining, that the site only lived on the local network, they almost closed down the class.Tony@tonybengal.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06593052976265570956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-11285979268708463362020-04-24T03:25:14.438-05:002020-04-24T03:25:14.438-05:00I agree, and I think it is a wonderful idea.
Sco...I agree, and I think it is a wonderful idea. <br />Scott, this is TDCJ, and without the first couple federal orders/consent decrees/injunctions, that are of course ignored and simultaneously, wholeheartedly, sworn to strict compliance, in fact, sworn to the department's going above and beyond any limitations the order may accidentally impose upon the liberty and freedom of the inmates [≠ (well≈)] offenders, that their only goal is to rehabilitate, and reintegrate back into society.<br /><br />They find, that making it as hard as possible for offenders to stay connected with their families, actually reduces recidivism. When the offender is released and completely allienated from his family, most likely won't be arrested again; because as soon as their $100 gate money is gone, with no one to turn to, and nowhere to go, suicide is quite a valid option.<br /><br />Recidivism and the revolving door are gone, and public safety, well it is much worse too, but recidivism is down, and they are shedding all forms of recent public safety gains. M. D. Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18080794337093925647noreply@blogger.com