To Complain About?
By: George Feigley
AK 2760
1111 Altamont Blvd.
Frackville, PA 17931
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Pennsylvania prisoners have life so sweet that it seems they
should have nothing to complain about.
Many people think that
prisoners are on a vacation.
Oddly, the same people wouldn't
want to be a prisoner himself.
Beatings, abuse and humiliation are common in Pennsylvania prisons. Prisoners are trained to behave badly. They aren't given an example of how a civilized citizen should behave. One of the principle lessons that the system teaches a prisoner is that those persons who have power can do whatever they please, however they please. Prisoners quickly decide that they too must become powerful. A gun will make them powerful. Money, even stolen money will make them powerful. Violence will make them powerful. Prison educates prisoners to be worse criminals. All Pennsylvania's prisoners are dehumanizing. The Smithfield state prison in Huntingdon in Central Pennsylvania is about in the middle of badness. The Frackville state prison in Eastcentral Pennsylvania is one of the worst. It's run by arrogant fools and liars. Since prisoners have things so good, food, medicine, even water, what can they have to gripe about? Here's what. Frackville Prison
Grievances
"I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Neuman
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Having no freedom, having no dignity, having no money, having
no privacy having nothing meaningful to do is a vacation, at least
some citizens think it is.
Wage-slaves who hate their own
employment think that prisoners are "lucky" to have no productive
work to do or to earn 72 cents a day mopping floors or wiping tables.
But do people ordinarily want to feel worthless? useless?