“As we all realize, punishment was never much of a deterrent, and could scarcely have afforded comfort to a victim already dead.” – Philip K. Dick, Minority Report (1956) Dear Editor, While state roads crumble the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) is wasting millions of taxpayer-dollars to remodel and reopen a long-closed “temporary” prison in
In approximately 1990-91, HTF was opened as a “Temporary” prison, as part of the Michigan Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) vast prison building program, precipitated when its existing capacity was overwhelmed by an irrational “tough-on-crime” policy. The MDOC received a building code exemption so it would not have to install a fire suppressions system, i.e., sprinklers,
On Oct. 13th, I was taken for a long ride, with two corrections officers (C/Os) and another prisoner, to the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) Duane Waters Hospital (Waters) in Jackson to have laser tomography (a sort of layered photo) of my eyes to see how far my macular degeneration has advanced. This road-trip, my
(in memory of Russell Means, d. 22 October 2012) I mourn for America, a beautiful land, dying a slow, choking death in the chains of the toxic West I mourn for the Indians, the original people, robbed of their birthright by diseased, psychotic settlers I mourn for
In every cry of every Man, In every Infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear. – William Blake, “London “It’s all in your head, man.” How many times have we heard that before? I’m bettin’ plenty and it’s truer than one might suspect. Why? Because the blueprint
