Not your problem. Not your monkey or your circus anymo.... fuck it. ]
Admiral,
I genuinely do respect and appreciate your view on Zero as something temporary and I would like to believe that most Wardens share your point of view. In my brief time here I have no seen a single Warden toss their Inmate into Zero simply for the sake of convenience. In that respect I'd like to believe that Zero continues to work as you perceive.
I also believe that there is a fine line walked by Zero. It should not be an aspiration for either Wardens or Inmates but I have seen -all too often- where incarcerations' of that sort can deliver a final blow to an already hopeless psyche.
A lot of the Inmates see Zero as being abandoned. As being worth neither the effort of a proper punishment, or of understanding from anyone other than other Inmates who encourage negative behavior. In my time as a warden for the area I always deferred to the sentencing warden but tried to make it clear that the Inmates were not being tossed in a hole and forgotten by the system.
Not being forgotten by the Wardens.
Warden Pagan has been on both sides of the bars. His suggestions for basic humanitarian rights are reasonable ones, Sir. I hope you will give them serious consideration. Zero doesn't have to be an Inmate 'safe space' but it should be humane and it should be part of the solution. Not a wasteland.
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Not your problem. Not your monkey or your circus anymo.... fuck it. ]
Admiral,
I genuinely do respect and appreciate your view on Zero as something temporary and I would like to believe that most Wardens share your point of view. In my brief time here I have no seen a single Warden toss their Inmate into Zero simply for the sake of convenience. In that respect I'd like to believe that Zero continues to work as you perceive.
I also believe that there is a fine line walked by Zero. It should not be an aspiration for either Wardens or Inmates but I have seen -all too often- where incarcerations' of that sort can deliver a final blow to an already hopeless psyche.
A lot of the Inmates see Zero as being abandoned. As being worth neither the effort of a proper punishment, or of understanding from anyone other than other Inmates who encourage negative behavior. In my time as a warden for the area I always deferred to the sentencing warden but tried to make it clear that the Inmates were not being tossed in a hole and forgotten by the system.
Not being forgotten by the Wardens.
Warden Pagan has been on both sides of the bars. His suggestions for basic humanitarian rights are reasonable ones, Sir. I hope you will give them serious consideration. Zero doesn't have to be an Inmate 'safe space' but it should be humane and it should be part of the solution. Not a wasteland.