KGUN9 was the only Tucson station to get a tour of the new maximum security facility at Lewis Prison Complex in Buckeye. The unit will open in December and will house 500 of the worst offenders in the state.
I did 85% of a 9 year sentence at Lewis. I started out at Stiner where I was able to secure a position with a telemarketing outfit which paid like $3.25 per hour. I only sold like one thing in 2/3 weeks, so they let me go. After I dropped below 5 years they sent me to Bachman where I got a job at CME (Swift) which also paid $3.25 per hour. While I was there they took on an additional night shift, which didn't work out, so when they scaled back, they let a bunch of us go. I then managed to secure a position at Hickman's and was moved to Sunrise. There were only two houses and 100 people there, so you hardly ever saw any cops. After I was let go at Hickman's, I was sent back to Bachman and got a job driving Trams around the complex for $.45 per hour. About that time, they decided to turn Bachman into a PC yard, and moved half the inmates to other yards, but moved any of us with jobs to Eagle Point. Eventually, the PC's filed suit, claiming discrimination because they couldn't qualify for any jobs outside of their own yard, so they gave them all of the complex jobs, which included mine as a Tram driver. I was fortunate enough to acquire a position as the Librarian at Eagle Point, following the demise of my boss, the previous Librarian, who died elsewhere under some rather tragic and questionable circumstances. Stiner was supposedly one of the worst yards within the whole system. I believe 15 people were killed there in the 15 months that I spent on that yard. Lifer's cannot go below a 3 yard, so there were some pretty tough customers there. When I first arrived at Stiner, we were allowed to move freely anywhere within the building, and back and forth from the yard during rec time. However, it changed to having movement only at rec time, before I left. Bachman was kind of a snap, no real problems there at all. Both Sunrise and Eagle Point were once Juvenile facilities, I heard; so we all had 2 man rooms. The inmates ran a pretty tight ship at Sunrise. There were no drugs allowed, as everyone was pretty keen about keeping their positions at Hickman's. We were nevertheless subject to strip searches every time we returned to the yard, and a urinalysis once a month. Any offsite position required a high school diploma or GED. I had a GED from the Army, but they charged $25.00 to send away for records, so I just signed up for school there at Stiner, and then completed a second GED. WTF, right? $25.00 is a lot of money in prison. And, it's not as if I had anything better to do. I'm from California myself, so doing time in Arizona was nothing compared to what it would have been like back in Cali. Thank (god) for that. And, additionally, I hit 50 just before I arrived on the yard, and was thus given OG status, which exempted me from some of the stuff; but, there wasn't really all that much to have to be concerned about in any event. I thought everything went pretty smoothly, especially if you kept your nose clean and didn't get involved in any of the drama. There were no cops at CME, and none that you ever really saw at Hickman's either. Everyone just basically did their jobs, and no one ever bothered us. As a Tram driver for 2 1/2 years, I interacted with more cops than inmates, and more than 99% of them were just decent hardworking people that never got out of line with ya'. All in all, my time went pretty fast, and thanks primarily to the ACI jobs, I got out with $3300.00 in my retention fund, and then moved directly into a Veteran's program which has taken real good care of me ever since. Life in prison, like life in general, is whatever you want to make of it. Thanks to the order maintained by the staff there, my life in prison was far less tumultuous than it was on the outside. I was there as a result of my first and only offense, and I cannot defend myself and/or my actions without going deeply into the inequities of the so-called criminal justice system, which itself is severely broken. And besides you probably wouldn't believe me anyway. It's one of those things that you just have to be able to see for yourself. I once heard it said that life is the process of learning too late that which you should already know. Well, just about everything you've ever heard has some truth to it, and I've seen both sides. I keep to myself now, just as I did in prison and it suits me just fine. Personally, I think there's a lot more crazies out on the street than there are in prison. Prison is serious, so you don't wanna' fuck around. But the street is like absolute chaos. People are nothing more than animals with the potential to be so much more than that. But all they do is run around copying everybody else. The Ancient Greeks knew that, and had a whole school of thought surrounding mimesis (mimicry). Plato said you are what (form) or idea that you participate in. Man learned how to survive by copying all the other living things, and mostly animals. You wanna' make a big issue out of Critical Race Theory, try thinking about the fact that everything in this world is either predatory or parasitic in nature. Or that they have managed to convince you that sex is glorious, and that if you're not prolific at it, then there must be something wrong with you. Personally, I've got no problem with someone who is attracted to somebody of the same sex. But people seem to associate sex with love, and therefore engage in sex with whoever they're attracted to. Believe me, there is no connection between the two. It's all about seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. Life is hard and then you die. We learn from our mistakes. Or, we just keep repeating history. We live in an imaginary construct, it's like a game, and there are certain rules you have to follow. And there are about seventy different concepts, principles, and ideals that you have to practice in order to become a human being. And it's got nothing to do with being a well-conditioned wage slave that can't hardly do anything without screwing it up. We need to change the paradigm's, and we need to think about what we're headed towards.
Luckily I never went higher than a 3 yard. Are 4n5 worse or is there more of a level of respect due to the time ya gotta do? People have this notion that being in prison is some fun pampered experience like a day spa. Oh my, if only they knew. It is a world of its own.
@@jackj5368 Your country has 5% of the world population but 25% of the worlds prison population, you simpleton. Keep supporting private prisons with your fat yankee ass.
Private prisons for example. "A private prison, or for-profit prison, is a place where people are imprisoned by a third party that is contracted by a government agency. Private prison companies typically enter into contractual agreements with governments that commit prisoners and then pay a per diem or monthly rate, either for each prisoner in the facility, or for each place available, whether occupied or not. Such contracts may be for the operation only of a facility, or for design, construction and operation."
The reporter said, every year more people in Arizona are getting locked up; so more prisons are needed. That's the case in many places. California, Texas, Neveda; Florida and more. It's because prison in this country is a business. The prisons; businesses and state governments profit from people being locked up. There are a lot, and an increasing number of jobs behind bars. And as the countries population continues to increase, due largely to the growth of minority, and lower class Americans. The system has a larger number of its preferred targets of incarceration.
@@plutoplatters Your country has 5% of the world population but 25% of the worlds prison population, you simpleton. Keep supporting private prisons with your fat yankee ass.
That whole process that news guy just showed us takes 4 DAYS they forgot to meantion. No bed no pillow just cold concrete and only bread with peanut butter twice a day....
SmokeMARIJANE420 At least he's in a new facility with everything working properly. Could be worse. Write him as often as possible. We used to look forward to mail on the daily. It was something to look forward to. What helped me do my time was writing letters. A huge part of my routine.
This Intel should immediately trigger a response. Attacks on inmates demonstrates lack of control by Correctional officers and puts them in serious danger. This should not be happening in this day and age. Before inmates get out of cell (shot caller), the inmates in leadership positions need to have waist chains and handcuffs Isolation and lack of time outside of cell or Pod is extremely reduced. Work to keep inmates safe and it will also provide protection for staff. Act before you have to react to violent behavior. Use information that is readily evident in these turbulent cell blocks..
So this is how the number game works - do you know that every time we go upstate to prison it is “ching ching” you know they got this thing called Gerrymandering which is where they send you 100 - 200 miles away so what that means that all the money that comes from your hood goes upstate - cuz every time they do the census count they have to count you in that county as if you’re a resident of that county. When they do that they say we have an exploding population - we need more money to build more hospitals, more schools and roads. Where those folks are never gonna use - the fact of the matter is the person that going to make it possible for them to secure that money is the elected official up there who is representing his real constituents. And why - because you locked up and you can’t vote.
Arizona is a very dangerous place to live or even visit. It is a weird state where politicians get elected by showing their bigotry, and police, prosecutors, and judges by applying it. It is extremely set against minorities, particularly middle eastern, Latinos, and blacks. although being white doesn't always mean getting treated with justice, as many have discovered. This state has strange laws that aim at jailing the most number of people to satisfy special interest. Arizona takes the funds out of schools to hire more police and build more torture jails and prisons. For your safety, and the safety of your family, stay away from this fascist state with racist population. Seeing the Grand Canyon isn't worth your life.
As a resident of Arizona, please stay out unless you are a productive person who is going to better the state. We have more than enough farm hands. We have enough people draining the system.
@@josephjakubec3171shut up cornball you yt people are yhe cause of everything WORLDWIDE THIS WORLD IS SHXT BECAUSE OF YOU YT PEOPLE HUNGRY FOR POWER Not to mention your people ruined the forrest and mother nature thats why its so hot and cold instead of being evenly thru the seasons
I've lived in Arizona my entire life, and I agree with you. At this point, though, the entire US is a shithole. I'd gladly leave if one of these "don't like it git out!" fuckt@rds was willing to pay for it. It's hard for these low brain cell individuals to understand that we are not the greatest country ever. We never have been.
I was in Lewis on Bachman and Steiner. In 2005/2008 They didnt have shit for programs, the school was lame and the library sucked. On Steiner we got 2 1/2 hours of Rec a day. They must have gotten a new warden after the last one had a Price on his head
All them people running them prisons are rats anyways theres no point in staying solid if everyone in there is already snitches how you x out chomos and snitches when the big homies are chomos and snitches politics is lame
$50 million would buy land military tents, military rations! Have them work the land and raise vegetables and cows and pigs! $50million would buy years worth of all of that!!
Erik Islas Larry was there once but he moved from that to a Florida prison due to a assault in prison. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.azcentral.com/amp/1037096002 The prison in Tucson Arizona was a high security penitentiary though.
Yeah. She's such a victim. And all these people doing hard time. Just had LSD in my coffee yesterday. . .the United States of America knocking out my teeth, and cutting off a finger, and hacking at a finger, and hacking at an ear, and the temperature's going to drop below freezing tonight (homeless 44 years), and my mother went home to Devils Lake, North Dakota, and the psychology department at the UA is cashing checks, and the chamber of commerce wants public meetings law to be adhered to the topic on the agenda, and the rumor mills are fresh meat . . . and all the fat women are above average.
The other ear: They tampered with at Patio Pools (uncle-tio . . . pa) and EVERY time they put drugs into food that I get cause the side of the head to be like the witch pounding me with brass knuckles . . . and it happens very often. Such a girl.
I got a great fucking idea if your any murder automatically exicuted if your a raper automatically exicuted that should clean it up a bit and make more room for someone else a
Dear people of america, The United States prison system has been a costly and harmful failure in recent years. It has also become big business and a large source of revenue despite what the government claims. As of 2011a combined total of 6,977,700 were either incarcerated in a federal or state prison or on parole which means that the United States has the highest inmate population on the planet. Arresting and incarcerating American citizens has become the new slave trade in America. A large percentage of inmates work daily for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the U.S. prison industrial complex, it has been like finding a pot of gold. They don't have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or worker's compensation time. All of their workers are full-time and never arrive late or are absent because of family problems; moreover if they don't like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work they are locked up in isolation cells.
I think it's BS how people say a life sentence is more justice than the death penalty. These people get to play outside 20 hours a day. But the victims familes will never be able to play outside with their loved ones who were taken. THAT'S NOT JUSTICE!
do they put alot of dropouts in there? There was an upstate sureno they say la eme made drop out at at another facility, he was kinda white I dont think he spoke Spanish thats probly why. now hes here
Mario Martinez bro lockdown is mental tourture it’s unconstitutional I heard a warden say “u can lock em down in seg there whole term but I don’t want them living next to me when they get out “ long term seg. Is unconstitutional
Why build prisons for these incurable thugs? They are expensive and more and more are needed. It should also be considered that prisons can also be easily emptied in other ways on the cheap. No one suffers, death is a good option and cheap. There are great new methods where people don't need to cause suffering when they die. At some point, we're going to have to start thinking about new options to get the crime and the perpetrators out. Of course, no one should be treated cruelly, but should be subjected to a journey.
