Missouri Prison Reform received the following message from a resident of a Missouri prison. Some edits were made for clarity.
Hello and good morning,
I am kind of glad this violation happened to me as it shows the ridiculous crap we go through and how these staff members violate their own policies, the constitution, case law, and just common sense to seek revenge and retaliation and how other staff members just go along with it like puppies on a string in all the wrongdoing. We see this and we are supposed to respect them!! You can’t force respect, its earned and not by being a piece of crap, abusing and hurting someone because they can. They are no different than us, people incarcerated in fact they are worse by abusing their appointed positions and power for personal gain! They think we don’t matter because we are prison residents, yet I have more respect and I am incarcerated! What they do shows their true self so if they are liars, abusers, and have no honor or integrity here to stand up for what is right or to stop wrongdoing when it is clear it is wrong. These actions will carry in everything thing they do and the way they are raising their kids to be liars and abusers and more. It is also shown to be true, for instance look at the past few years staff members and correctional officers involved in child porn/sex ring, charges of child endangerment and more.
When it comes to canteen, a staff member was caught lying and stealing but no prosecution. There is discrimination, racialism, retaliation, revenge, abuse, and more in Missouri DOC! These things alone make most of the decisions from day to day! You may hear a staff member or correctional officer say, “he pissed me off”! To get mad makes things personal so if you’re mad then it is safe to say your decisions are cloudy, so when a CO takes someone to the hole because he got mad wouldn’t this be abuse, or retaliation? In accordance with professionalism and standard, yes. To be professional is to be always professional so emotions can’t cloud your judgement or control decisions, however it is allowed in Missouri DOC. Staff will just go along!
In the military when I was a combat instructor my job was to prepare entry level Marines for combat. I had to earn their respect because you’re asking them to trust you with their lives and you don’t get that by lying, screwing them over, retaliating, seeking revenge on them, or being a piece of crap. You don’t get mad or angry and take that anger out on them! That is not professional! But in Missouri DOC it is OK to make decisions based off anger thus making it abuse of power. Also, if the staff are doing it here, they are most likely doing it at home as well! Also issues like this escalate until they themselves become incarcerated unless others intervene and tell them to stop what they’re doing because it is wrong.
Here is food for thought, the staff’s words are taken as gold! They are seen as these all-mighty people who can’t tell a lie. When they get fired or quit then go to news and tell them what is going on here. They are called liars by institution and their former coworkers. This is the case; it can’t be both ways truthful here and liars out there, so it is safe to say they were liars on the job and most likely screwed people incarcerated over. If this was a Judge, Police Officer, Prosecutor then all cases would need to be reopened and overturned because now there is a moral obligation to make sure all of these peoples former cases was done ethically and correctly and during the proceedings if a person incarcerated claims the staff member in question is lying well the person incarcerated is telling the truth in accordance to what DOC and institution is stating about the former employees being liars!
