The Prison System In The Hate Factory By G. Hirliman

Kings of the Jungle A first-hand look of how the prison system works revealed to me that there is many flaws, unanswered questions, and things you just throw into the category of “not right”. Being no less than a cage away from anything ranging from, non-child support payers, public intoxication convicts to murders, and child molesters. Opened my eyes to these are still people who made mistakes, although, some may be emotionally disturbed in the end their still people. It only took one trip to Kirkland State Penitentiary to realize prisoners are still human beings who deserve respect, and basic rights. But clearly most of the workers could disagree. From my experience and my new gained knowledge from the book, The Hate Factory by G. Hirliman,
My proposal to this problem is to put workers through more intense training upon employment, have a reasonable ratio of female and male workers, have a diverse staff of all races, more surveillance cameras to support worker-inmate, inmate-inmate reports, and more severe consequences for workers breaking the law and
The “penitentiary is a zoo and the inmates are caged animals” (Hirliman, pg.24). Lessons from our tour support many complaints from inmates in the book. An inmate not receiving his glasses or specific medicine until weeks later, is torture in not being able to see but still expected to perform all actions of other inmates. When controlling shower times, spraying pepper spray, being strapped to a chair for hours at a time, are put in the hands of the wrong people, is immoral no matter how hard, they try to justify it. When “I dont know” or “just cause”, are the reasons for performing an action to inmate it’s not right. If you can’t support your claim or your way of defense, simply don’t do it. Prison is a zoo, and the workers are the king of the jungle. Abusing their powers, making up their own rules, and adding the ammunition, that killed anyone thought of a respectable ordered, justice