"Man who Grew Up in General Grant Housing Project since 1956 Evicted for Jumping Turnstile. Only Supreme Court Justice Emily Jane Goodman Holds Giuliani's Militia at Bay"
[excerpted from the April 26, 2000 THE NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL; article by Bruce Balestier]
"[...] Mr. Faison, who is black, was born in 1956 in the apartment in question ... in Manhattan, and lived there with his mother ... until his mother died in November 1995. After his mother's death, he applied for remaining family member status and to be listed as the tenant of record.
But in January 1996, the Housing Assistant of General Grant Houses notified Mr. Faison that he had been found "ineligible for the tenancy" in light of a "criminal verification check" that showed he had been convicted several times of misdemeanor transit fare evasion.
[...] Judge Goodman noted that the burden of proof was wrongly placed on Mr. Faison to prove he met the new applicant eligibility criteria and that "the Hearing Officer failed to honor Mr. Faison's explicit request to bring in character witnesses and, in fact, made light of it in a cruel and demeaning manner."
[she continued] ... "Because of the cycle of homelessness and imprisonment, it cannot be overlooked, that over 30 percent of African American males nationwide, between the ages of twnety and twenty nine, were under criminal justice supervision in 1994 ... if Mr. Faison were to be made homeless by the Housing Authority prevailing in this case, because of the crime of farebeating [called "blackriding" in Europe among university students, it is such a popular activity] his chances of entering the criminal justice system, in a profound way, would significantly increase."
[...] Finally, Judge Goodman asserted that the Housing Authority decision to seek evictions based on turnstile jumping convictions was an improper expansion of federal eligibility standards.
Of course, much plastic surgery and liposuction, and gutting of my flab, will have to take place now since the JENNY CRAIG DIET
UTTERLY FAILED
... before I am FULLY trimmmmmmmed DOWN, and in not too much time I will appear BETTER than the image below. Then I will be FIVE times cuter than Theresa Russell, and not just DOUBLE her beauty, like I always have been!:
You'd think that after all the ZILLIONS of dollars given to them by Washington and the Pentagon it would make them sometimes generous. I FOUND OUT OTHERWISE!!!! I am the victim here, not Billy Clinton!!! PLEASE FORGIVE ME HILLARY FOR I HAVE SINNED!! Not against you honey, against the cultic bee-hive!!!!
... I'm afraid Mossad wil put me on their drainage machine [see picture below]!! I WANT MY PAYOFF MONEY NOW !!!!!
I'm not really worried cause I know how secure and private and confidential the Internet is and how the service providers don't allow access into users' personal accounts to just any government feds, intelligence spooks, or very rich people who OWN the entire telecommunications industry. I'm just worried that they will use REMOTE VIEWING [see links in footer] on me and READ MY MIND [and there is SO MUCH in there, you just wouldn't believe me!]
My last two ghostwriters couldn't understand my diction, and it wasn't because I had something naughty in my mouth. Not even a specially marinated Cuban Cigar. They said I didn't no how speak English. [they were REALLY mean]. If they skank on me again I'm gonna have to call my friend Ally McBeal and get really drunk with her, cause they make fun of her weight too! I hope Calista finds a job back here in NYC after being canned from Ally McBeal!
And Ally is entitled to three or four martinis [picture above] after being SLAMMED by Amy Sohn in a recent NY POST article as "... a basket-case, floozy, self-hating ditz ... Ally is a male fantasy, born from the head of a guy who is less in touch with real women than the men who read MAXIM magazine." Amy went on to rant that Ally represents "singleton-ism," the chronic singles life [like being single is a disease!], and that DAVID E. KELLEY, the writer and producer who created my friend Ally, and who is married to Michelle Pfeiffer, has done more AGAINST women via SEXISM in his three tv shows than even big little ole ME after all my blue dresses and cigars and wired phonelines!!! She's really cheeky to in-sin-you-ate THAT! [my writers just told me the correct spelling is "insinuate"]
If DAVID E. KELLEY were GAY I could forgive him for not showing enough senstivity to how women REALLY want to be treated by lovers and boyfriends, but he is as strait as an arrow! MICHELLE honey? Do you want to talk to me???
I feel really sorry for all the underrepresented, innocent, and harshly sentenced PRISONERS in our penal colonies, those new FRANCHISES that are now pulling down big MONEY on WALL STREET, selling shares of incarceration square footage at BOWKOO profits, especially Wackenhut! [WAK]. [my writers are helping me here again too].
I swear to you all out there that I will NEVER invest my MILLION$$ from JENNY CRAIG for shedding some adipose into ANY of these sweet PRISON deal investments. SO TAKE THAT!! Michael Moore of "Roger & Me" and "TV Nation". You'd better not make a "MONICA & ME" or I'll sit on your face!!!
THIS IS HOW MUCH SPACE I can squat on Michael Moore's FACE!!
MAKING THESE DAMN BURGERS AIN'T NOTHIN BUT HEARTBREAK IN THE HEAT OF SUMMER!
SUIs ... State Use Industries in Prisons!!!
from the WASHINGTON POST
"[MARYLAND] STATE SAYS GIVING JOBS TO INMATES PAYS OFF"
by Paul W. Valentine
[excerpted]
[...] The prison population as a whole has grown by 63 percent [in Maryland] from 13,765 in 1989 to 22,500 today.
[...] The proposal working its way through the [Maryland] General Assembly, where most lawmakers favor the concept of prison industries ...
[...] SUI programs occasionally encounter public disapproval. Last year, a telemarketing project for female inmates who had been soliciting financial pledges for nonprofit organizations, including the AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, was halted.
[...] SUI has another major purpose: to save money for the state. Inmates typically are paid $1 to $2.50 a day ... churning out a wide variety of items ... all at a fraction of what they would cost on the open market.
[...] In the one exception to the ban on PRIVATE SECTOR participation, SUI recently has been permitted to venture into the FEDERALLY APPROVED PRISON INDUSTRY Enhancement program. SUI contracted last yer with a New Jersey bottle maker for ... inmates ... to inspect perfume bottles and other glass containers for chips and hairline fractures.
[...] While the MINIMUM or prevailing WAGE requirement is calculated to keep prisons from undermining the private economy, inmates RETAIN only a portion of the higher pay. The cost of their ROOM and board in prison is deducted, as well as TAXES, family support payments and contributions to the state's victim assistance program -- as much as 65 PERCENT of the inmate's gross income.
[...] Among SUIs biggest operations is its MEAT PROCESSING PLANT ... [with] scores of men in white butcher's coats and sanitized caps, cutting, shaping and packing stew meat, roasts, beef patties, sausage and turkey loaf.
[...] a quality control supervisor in the meat plant ... averages $4.38 a
DAY
in pay ... ."
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CAPTION TO PHOTO:
"The Republicans Snatched my NEA Funding Right out of my leotards, and now I'm just an UNEMPLOYED Brother with lots of Dance talent whose only option left open is to teach all my brothers locked up in the
SLAMMER
how to leap right out from those TOMB WALLS!!!"
HI -- THIS IS MONICA AGAIN. I JUST WANTED YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT
MY TYPE OF GUY IS REALLY THE HUNK YOU JUST HAD THE PLEASURE OF MEETING ABOVE!!!
The Tombs of Manhattan
was mainly a prison for detention where persons accused of
crimes were confined until trial and sentence, if any. About 50,000
prisoners were annually confined in it. As soon as they were sentenced, the
convicts were sent to the institutions where they immediately started
serving their terms, except those sentenced to be hanged. These remained
at the Tombs for execution.
Even the new
Department of Correction's first official reports in 1896 called it the Tombs.
The massive edifice of granite was built between 1835 and 1840, and took up the square bounded
by Centre, Elm, Franklin and Leonard streets. Its design had been inspired by an
ancient mausoleum
that a traveler to Egypt, John I. Stevens of Hoboken, N.J., illustrated and wrote about in his book
"Stevens' Travels."
Some Tombs granite came from
old Bridewell in City Hall Park,
a pre-Revolutionary prison torn down in 1838.
More than 20 years before construction, the Common Council had argued over where to build the
jail that all agreed was needed to replace jails the British had erected before the American
revolution. Finally chosen was the site of the former Collect Pond, a small sheet of water separated
from the river by a strip of marshland. The Collect once supplied the city with drinking water. John
Fitch used it for early steamboat experiments. A small island in the Collect was once the site of a
British gallows. Long after Independence, filling in the marshland became a jobs project designed to
give work to the poor.
In 1902 a massive, gray building replaced the Tombs but its chateau-like
appearance could not displace in common parlance the name of the
original structure whose architectural style had been based on a steel
engraving of an
EGYPTIAN TOMB.
Seven decades later that replacement was itself replaced by the
present Manhattan Detention Complex but still "THE TOMBS" name persists. [see current New York Times article below for update].
What served as one of the city's principal jails for more than a half century was originally named "The
Halls of Justice." But the commonly-used term for the structure was "The Tombs."
EXCERPTS FROM
PRISON
coverage in the THE NEW YORK TIMES, Millenium 2000
"Citing 1996 Federal Law, States & Cities Are Wresting Control of Prisons From the Courts"
"[...] Correction Officials have FILED SUIT to end 22 years of strict [reform] standards for ALL ASPECTS OF PRISON LIFE, standards that advocates for inmates have credited with improving conditions."
[...] Before the 1970s, JUDGES were reluctant to become directly involved in running prisons, although COURTS did intervene in some cases, typically involving religious freedom.
That changes when lawyers, often fresh from civil rights battles, began to argue that the conditions in many prisons were so horrendous they violated protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
One of the earliest cases came in NEW YORK CITY, after a riot in a notorious Manhattan jail know as
THE TOMBS.
After six years of litigation, the city agreed in 1978 to settle the case. The city's jails have been under court supervision ever since.
[...] In November 1998, the court ordered the city to correct serious fire violations at jails in Brooklyn and the Bronx, and on RIKERS ISLAND. The violations included broken fire alarms and sprinklers, and INOPERABLE fire doors.
[...] "There is a continuing infestation of INSECTS and RODENTS ... in jails," ... "when we went to the infirmary ... there was no heat." [John Boston, director of the LEGAL AID SOCIETY'S Prisoners Rights Project].
[...] "There is no enforcement power whatsoever to see that these changes are not made," she said. "The OVERSIGHT Committee can simply POINT things out, and state what they BELIEVE to be a trend, back to the original conditions, that caused the problem." [ Claire Drowota , Executive Director of the State of Tennessee's Legislature's CORRECTIONS COMMITTEE].
When is Bernard gonna stop playing soldier, and war, and do more than preach -- is he an actor in Deuteronomy? ... like his pal Rudy Giuliani? ... Will he "re-humanize" our New York prisons --- and Housing Projects? COME ON!!!!! Let's see more than a damned teeney weeney Waterford Crystal Ball for our HARD EARNED TAX & and freebie Prison Labor!
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NEWS FLASH ---
from THE NEW YORK TIMES
[excerpted from an article by RAYMOND HERNANDEZ]
38 EMPLOYEES FOR THE NY STATE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS COLLECTED $65,000 FOR HOURS THEY DID NOT WORK
"[...] The trail of billing records generated from the E-ZPass and cellular phone use allowed auditors for the state comptroller, H. Carl McCall, to pinpoint where the state employees actually were at various times that they said they were in their offices. Details of the findings were in a report that Mr. McCall's office released today.
Mr. McCall's auditors found that 38 employees for the state's Department of Correctional Services collected $65,000 in pay for hours they apparently did not work. The audit, conducted from April 1996 to August 1997, focused on investigators in the state agency's offices here and in LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS. The investigators, among other things, track down inmates who have escaped from prison."
We want to know why OUR AMERICAN PRISONS now have more inmates than the GULAGS of Russia which Solzhenitzen excoriated against so eloquently. Why are there dozens of investment opportunities in companies with names like CORRECTIONS CORP. OF AMERICA, that rents out prisons to state and federal governments?? Why are so many firefighters in dangerous firefights underpaid prisoners, trotted out for the flames? Why doesn't the media cover Jesse Jackson's assessment of the deplorable fact that it is easier for a black brother to go to prison than to finish high school? Something like $29 worth of crack is enough for five years in prison if you're not white. Whereas, Caucasian undergrads smoke up hundreds of bucks of grass a month and get off with only a few sniffles to the judge??
"A federal judge granted preliminary approval yesterday to a $1.6 million settlement on behalf of D.C. inmates who claimed they were abused, denied adequate medical care and not properly separated from their dangerous counterparts at a PRIVATELY run PRISON in Youngstown, Ohio.
The proposed SETTLEMENT stems from a class-action lawsuit against CORRECTIONS CORP. of AMERICA, which runs the prison, and the District.
[...] More than 1,500 inmates have been transferred to the prison since it opened in May 1997.
[...] The family of at least one inmate killed last year has filed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against CCA, former DC Corrections director Margaret A. Moore and the District.
[...] CCA did not return telephone calls seeking comment yesterday. The Ohio facility has had myriad problems since opening nearly two years ago. At least two DC inmates were killed by other prisoners ? more than 40 assaults have occurred, including 20 stabbings in the first 10 months of the prison's operation. Six inmates escaped last July.
The incidents prompted US Attorney General Janet Reno to order a review of the prison. The federal examination done by Corrections Trustee John Clark found a series of missteps by Nashville-based CCA and by Moore. They found a lack of policies and procedures, poor security and management, and inexperienced staff members."
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