Institutional Bigotry

 

Fuck racism and prejudices against peoples’ chosen or innate characteristics.  Rather than focusing on general theories of institutional bigotry, this blog concentrates on organized disparagement in the American jails and prisons.  Particularly, this piece depicts and explains how the correctional industrial complex in the United States not only fosters negative human behaviors, but also deliberately invokes the horrible processes to maintain their false credibility of dealing with horrible offenders who require imprisonment and are incorrigible beings.  Second to this, this piece also discusses how there is uncontrollable racism and prejudices and how it (institutional bigotry) cannot be controlled or obliterated by the correctional unions in this country.    

Institutional Bigotry

             Definition:  Prejudices against any individual traits that are not congruent with another person’s views, expressions, or thoughts.  Being a judgmental dick, basically.

Inducing Institutional Bigotry and False Propaganda

In county jails and prisons all across the country there are routine decisions of organizing the offenders into categories based on their race, ethnicity, religious views, gender identification, sexual preferences, age, allegations, criminal convictions, and medical issues.  Moreover, and before we go any further into this topic, it should be known that this blog is not fully attacking the classification systems in the vast amount of correctional facilities in this country, but is addressing the fostering of the lethargy by the corrections officials in respect to not creating a system that is diverse and culturally aware given the state of our current society.  Of this, and to center on racism and prejudices against ethnicity for example purposes, it should be known that many correctional facilities in this country pair up inmates (cellmates) with identical races or ethnicities to avoid conflict amongst inmates and staff.  Once more, please note that avoiding conflict in jails and prisons is a good thing and this will be discussed in the uncontrollable institutional bigotry portion of this blog.  Nonetheless, this racial and ethnic selection process induces the idea that offenders are unable to live amongst other people who do not share the same racial or ethnic backgrounds.  This process has profound effects on an offender’s thought processes and reentry into free society.  When an offender is given forced institutional bigotry it permeates into every facet of their life.  Normalcy in our current structure of jails and prisons is not typical in society, and when an inmate takes on racist values and negative prejudices they are on a path to carry the awful behaviors with them upon their release.  Once this occurs, an offender is an immediate outcast in society and thus engages in antisocial behaviors that are not productive in any fashion.  Society takes on this burden and in many cases has to deal with the recidivism and other poor behaviors because of the institutional bigotry.      

As aforementioned, not only does this classification procedure produce concepts of racism and cultural segregations, it allows for the correctional unions to acquire funds and resources for “security reasons.”  Meaning that the correctional professionals use the forced racism, ethnic prejudices, and other discriminations to their advantage in order to maintain the notion that offenders are awful people and that the more resources used to control every aspect of their living is necessary.  By suggesting that inmates are unable to behave normally while in prison with various types of people and different individual characteristics, the corrections unions sustain their current trend of providing no treatment services, cruel and unusual punishments, and budgets that give unnecessary annual salaries.  Empowering horrible behaviors has positive results for those who work in corrections; better equipment, greater safety, and larger paychecks to be exact. 

Uncontrollable Institutional Bigotry

             On the other hand, there are plenty of jerks inside of jails and prisons who are racist and prejudiced against a person’s innate or chosen characteristics.  Institutional classification is necessary for these offenders and liberal approaches to justice will not work for them.  Nothing can be done to cease hate inside of a prisoner’s mind if they are unwilling to move past their egregious viewpoints.  Even if social programs of anti-discrimination for the incarcerated were to be created, it does not mean that the processes will work for everyone.  We have an extremely complex culture and the right to be free in our thoughts.  Because of this, utilizing a more diverse corrections culture is very difficult to comprehend and seems impossible.  The corrections professionals should augment the systems that they use to classify offenders to extract those who are bigots and allow those who are not to live in a manner that is personally and socially acceptable.  The change could come about by sending discriminating inmates to predesignated locations after a screening process.