The trip to federal prison from court to your new bed (2004)
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CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou was threatened with permanent con-air for complaining to the press about prison conditions. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1018653-john-kiriako...
Living shackled on a plane or bus transferred from prison to prison for years sounds like a nightmare
Is that what you are asking?
On the other hand, this sounds like a higher-profile prisoner with access to good legal representation. I would think that, if they actually tried to do that, the prisoners' lawyer would figure it out eventually, and a court would most likely take a dim view of such a practice.
I'm not sure if they've ever actually done that, though. It sounds like they might have kept some problem inmates tied up in pointless transit maybe for a week or three. Doing it perpetually sounded more like speculation than something they've actually done, or could realistically pull off.
You'd have to ask a lawyer, probably one who practices federal criminal law, how such a thing would actually work, but I'm going to guess that if your problem is that the BOP keeps transferring you endlessly, then a lawyer could make a case for filing some kind of suit in almost any jurisdiction, and so you can take your pick of judges and courts.
Overly cynical is how the world works.
Not that they would care, or that the constitution means anything to them...
The emphasis on retribution over rehabilitation is a serious problem in modern society. Unfortunately the victims of an often over zealous justice system are granted a severely muted and underrepresented voice. The people most motivated to change the system are unable to do so. I'm glad that a forum like Prisontalk exists to give them some semblance of a voice. It seems like if this system is going to change, somebody else is going to have to step up to the plate and take charge of changing it. Hopefully the internet will help to disseminate stories like this to the public and motivate people to push for change in what is a seriously backwards prison system.
America should be ashamed.
Edit: I post a lot of unpopular opinions... I sure didn't expect this one to get downvoted!
This is by design. That type of incarceration leads to more recidivism. We have a for-profit prison industry that wields a lot of political clout. When those driving policy have a financial interest increasing the number of prisoners, policies like mandatory minimums, voting suppression, the war on drugs and the traumatizing experience that you observed look less like problems and more like conscious decisions designed to increase profits.
I guess if you want to go full 1980s movie, you could do something like Thunderdome in the first sort of facilities.
And calling it torture strikes me as ridiculously over the top. But then, I've come to think lately that the word torture isn't very useful at all. The only real use is to allow people to make inflammatory claims that compare some practice of the prison system to racks and thumbscrews. If you object to a specific practice, call out that practice explicitly. If it's actually unnecessarily bad, then no inflammatory rhetoric is required to get people to object. Suggest something more reasonable to accomplish the same goal instead. Making vague claims of torture makes me think that you're reaching in an attempt to make something sound worse than it is.
http://www.handcuffwarehouse.com/cs5thmoblbox.html
It covers the key holes to prevent tampering attempts, and it looks like it'd also increase the rigidity of the handcuffs (versus just the chain), further restricting movement.
[1] - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/07/web_activity_...
Readability as a service?
Option 2. Resize your browser window.
Wow.
It could be just from a misunderstanding and wrongful targeting -- like it has happening to tons of people, including "respectable white people".
Or you could have a party and one of your friends has some marijuana in his pocket and you all end up in jail.
Or you could fall behind your taxes or whatever.
The idea that all prisoners are killers and rapists shows one has absolutely no idea about prisons and probably society in general.
In my case, any serious attempt to jail me unjustly would eventually bankrupt the state just from having to keep patching holes in jail, but even so, we need something better than "oh, you have the <criminal> tag in your life? Consider all good things over".