FECES, ANYONE? - MATTERS OF PISS AND DEFECATION - Government - http://maxpages.com/darkevilworld/Feces

In the past few years there has been a growing number of incidents of inmates confined in Administrative Segregation and Punitive Isolation throughout the units of the ADC throwing feces and urine on the guards and visitors to their cages.

Although many would be shocked about this because the very concept of it implies a kind of depravity and degeneracy in inmates all in itself, I think it is important to recognize that these things are often done by prisoners against their keepers not because many prisoners have some kind of fetish for bodily excrements or are in fact depraved, but due to the simple logistics of necessity. You see, when those in the cells and holes of Administrative Segregation and Punitive Isolation have been stripped of every appliance, accouterment, and vessel, as long as the good ol' boys don't figure out a way to plug up their anuses and penises to prevent the body's unfailing production of armaments and missiles, throwing feces and piss on the guards is one of the few ways left for abused inmates to strike back at their keepers.

Oh sure, the beatings that may follow, or the "disciplinary' measures that ensue make this battle one-sided overall and the inmates' losses are a foredrawn conclusion, but many feel that if they are going to be abused anyway, they may as well give their keepers a good reason. Sometimes it's not the battle lost that matters, only the fight that was fought. It has its humorous side, you must admit. Also, some prisoners decided that since the good ol' boys enjoy making them piss and shit all over the Recreation Yard they thought it might be a good idea to share a little of it with the guards down on the East Hall.

Recently, the always foresightful Arkansas Board of Corrections implemented a policy that will allow the good ol' boy guards to feed trouble-making and recalcitrant prisoners "grue" to keep them from withholding cups, trays, or spoons at mealtime by which they can catapult their bodily excrements at passers-by. Grue is a meat loaf-like substance; a disgusting conglomeration of foodstuffs all mixed together into a briquet. The official recipe calls for dry milk, bread, cornmeal, oats, ground beef, and beef liver, shredded potato, carrot, cabbage, spinach, tomato sauce, white beans, black-eyed peas, chopped dates, salt and salad oil, all combined together, baked and then refrigerated. Grue was outlawed in the Holt v. Sarver/Finney v. Arkansas Department of Correction decisions which declared the Arkansas Department of Correction to be unconstitutional, but since the Compliance Reports and elements of the Consent Decree are under court seal, no one may prove that feeding grue again violates express legal agreements between the inmates and their keepers. Although many prisoners will in fact find grue to be a nicely coercive tool for undermining their health, safety and well-being when abused (as it surely will be), a side-line benefit will be to cause diarrhea-like symptoms in the stool, so their slinging of feces at the officers will have a much more "reaction-inducing" quality.

There is an unspeakable tragedy here that is not recognized: One day the men and women who have been reduced to the emotional depravity which manifests in them feeling that there is no way to strike back or release their anger, frustration and hatred except by throwing excrement on guards or visitors who wander too close to their stifling cells, despite the costly retaliatory actions that will be taken against them will someday be released from their cells, and then from prison. When they return to you, John Q. Public, where there are no bars, no chains, no night sticks between them and you they are not going to throw feces or urine at you, but wield machetes, knives, guns and explosives to murderous and suicidal end. When that happens - when your sons and daughters and your friends and neighbors are slaughtered by some psychopathic killer, please don't anguish with the resounding "Why?!?! Why did someone do such a depraved and malicious thing?"

I have told you why. A tiny, tiny part of why. You see, after years and years of the abuses that you allow to go on here, those who are abused eventually lose the ability to distinguish friend from foe, and in it you have all become the good ol' boys against whom anguished and tortured souls will vent themselves in hatred. When they came here they had made mistakes, most of them. When they leave here they will be predators capable of every unspeakable thing.

Recently, one of those prisoners voiced the sentiment of tens of thousands of prisoners on local TV, "Ain't no fun when the rabbit's got the gun." I don't think anyone even heard what he said. It was spoken loud and clear even by the children at Jonesboro and Columbine, and still no one heard.

You deaf and blind souls, may God have mercy on you.

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