Attica Guards Lobby for Inhumane Treatment
by Ian Williams Goddard
ATTICA PRISON GUARDS LOBBY FOR INHUMANE TREATMENT
by Ian Williams Goddard
A group of the trigger happy Attica prison guards that massacred 29
prison inmates and the 10 hostages they held during a 1971 riot are
apparently not satisfied with their contribution to human suffering.
Upset that there are prison inmates they have not destroyed, these
guards have formed a national lobbying organization, the
Corrections and Criminal Justice Reform Task Force, in an effort
to halt humane treatment of prisoners.
The goal of CCJRTF will be (a) building more prisons, (b)
reducing the standard of living for prison inmates and ©
terminating any hope inmates may have of ever escaping poverty
and crime by ending all college eduction courses for prisoners [1].
The Associated Press states that since the Attica riot and ensuing
massacre, reforms have made life more humane for prisoners.
However, the AP states that guards who have joined this lobbying
group believe these reforms must be stopped and conditions for
prisoners must be made less humane, restoring once again the
conditions that lead to the tragic 1971 riot and massacre.
Upset about humanitarian prison reforms, the executive vice
president of the California Correctional Peace Officer's
Associations, Mike Jimenez, said, "Today in America's prisons,
convicted criminals get ... college education and eggs cooked to
order for breakfast."
That's not true claims a spokesman for the Department of
Correctional Services, James Flateau. The overzealous guards
"should have done their homework," said Flateau noting that
college classes were already terminated last year. Flateau also
denied all charges of humane treatment cited by CCJRTF. A truly
bizarre race to the bottom.
25 years after the tragic Attica riot, the pathologist who performed
the autopsies, Dr. Baden, came forward to say that ALL of the
hostages and prisoners were killed by the guards as they stormed
the prison with guns blazing after only four days of negotiations.
[2] The official big lie has been that the prisoners killed the
hostages.
Sept, 11 1996
© 1996 Ian Williams Goddard -- free to copy with attribute
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