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A b-entry from B-ent Country Colorado by a b-ent mind  ;)

I’m not really bent of mind but I had to follow through with the “b-entry thread.

If I wrote software that monitored blog entries it would be called “B-entry Sentry.”

All right I’m loopy from the run around I got from the Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline, and refusal of the Supreme Court to put some smack down on them.  The legal term for a Superior Court putting some smack down on an agency or lower court is called mandamus, Latin for “demand.” 

It was a terrible summer trying to communicate coherent thoughts to bureaucratic drooler’s.  I estimate that I’ve spent 50 thousand words, over the past four years trying to explain very narrow legal facts to apparatchik stooges.  The replies I have received imply that the apparatchiki often read as much as the title of each filing. 

Def. apparatchik = Russian for cog-in-the-machine functionary (literally “little apparatus”)   English just doesn’t have such a concise term for fucking government bureaucratic muttonheads.

Here is a judicial branch health care plan that might inject some function and logic:  Rigor Mortis Medication!

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There was a staff homicide at the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility in the early morning of 24 Sept. 2012.  An inmate attacked two female staff in the kitchen before breakfast service.  I was incarcerated there twice, Dec. 2001- July 2003 & Sept. 2005 – Jan. 2007, and enjoyed very stable operations and inmate/staff rapport both times.

The reason this long term trend of stability changed may be traced back to the group movement of 100 inmates out of the facility in Dec. 2006 and Jan. 2007.  This was part of a larger attempt by then Executive Director Joe Ortiz and Director of Prisons Nolan Renfrow (fn. 1) to move 720 inmates from throughout Colorado Department of Corrections out of state.

Mssrs. Ortiz and Renfrow were pre-feathering their post-civil employment nests by puking 720 inmates into a private (Corrections Corp. of America) prison in Oklahoma, in the waning months of Governor Bill Owens’ second term.  There was no way these two jackals would be kept over by any governor elect, not that civil employment was ever their long term plan.  Long term is for inmates not government shot callers that can execute a human bondage pre-payment for million dollar V.P. jobs in the private prison industry. (fn. 2)

Due to weather logistics – a legendary ice storm – Ortiz and Renfrow were only able to dislocate two of the three intended tranches of 240 inmates to Oklahoma, before Governor Bill Ritter was sworn in on Jan. 20 2007.  This correlated to a donation of 50 inmates for each of the dislocations, from AVCF.  All of these inmates, this author included) were cherry picked from single occupancy cells.  Earning and keeping a single cell indicates a compliant inmate.  Thus the top 10% of compliant and low maintenance inmates were removed from that facility in a 30 day period.  Had Dept. of Corrections, DOC, Replaced that top decile of inmates through normal transfers and intakes from the diagnostics center there may have not been a salient change in the inmate profile.  But, being in a mass movement state of mind logisticians decided to backfill the 100 slots at AVCF with inmates slated for the soon-to-open second maximum security facility in the state, CSP II. (fn. 3)  Therefore the top decile of inmate was replaced with the worst inmates from a dozen other facilities pending their group move to CSP II.

AVCF was irreversibly changed making 2007 their most tumultuous year since opening in 1987.  The facility managers restructured over the next five years putting different categories of inmates in different units and other tactics; they were unable to dilute the effect of introducing a high concentration of violent inmates where there had been a counter weight of low management inmates.

Two factors of intentional mismanagement for private industry profit created the conditions that killed Sgt. Mary Ricard and nearly killed Sgt. Lori Gann:

Cherry picking inmates for CC of A.

Prematurely pre-staging violent inmates to benefit a privately funded prison.

Fn. 1 – I cannot say enough bad about this fucking scumbag.  I have written about him in my former “Reproof” pamphlets and drew a political cartoon of signing both sides of a contract for a private prison in Ault Colorado in which he acted in both his public capacity and sole proprietor of a “corrections: consulting firm.  At the time of the move he was under investigation for $1,000,000 in escrow to his illicit company from the prison developer GEO Group.   https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/11-15

Fn. 2 – This game of trading inmates as an asset class on the civil to private sector job swap market is quite common.  A Lt. Governor of Connecticut rendered approx. 500 inmate to W. Virginia for a CCA  V.P. slot.  He was prosecuted for other corruption a few years later.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Rowland

Fn. 3 – Similar to Fn. 1 above, I cannot say enough bad about how this facility was financed by anonymous private bonds, called by way of grotesque euphemism, “certificates of participation.”  Here the state constitution requires a voter bond issue, and when the facility was completed it was deemed  unnecessary.  It remains sublimely vacant.