Heard there was another inmate death a couple of days ago? at ISP?
by Anonymous
Friday, May 30, 2008
Whistle Blowers
I read this morning on Jen Wagner's Hoosier Political Report (http://www.hoosierpoliticalreport.com/) that the state Department of Labor is suing a Ft. Wayne hotel after they fired a manager who reported safety violations there.
I wonder how many similar lawsuits the state could file against itself for all the "whistle blowers" who have been fired or forced out for the same thing, in IDOC alone?
JDD, his henchmen, and his lapdogs have made sure that anyone who feels the need to point out the serious problems in this department thinks twice and keep their mouths shut. Even the most trivial concerns or suggestions for improvement label you as a troublemaker. How many of the best, competent people have been forced out because they've tried to point out problems? How many people have been sucked into JDD asking for their "ideas" and participated in those ridiculous "Skip Level" meetings with him, then find they are on the list of troublemakers? Those meetings are nothing less than a chance for JDD to convince the youngest and most naive new employees that he is the "best corrections commissioner in America", and to spot the troublemakers, whether they are new or veteran staff. Point out a problem to JDD, and he will be on the phone to your Superintendent. Point out a problem or a concern to your Superintendent, and you are on the list. Anyone who finds themselves on the list is transferred, pushed around, forced out, or fired.
How many Wrongful Terminations has HR had to deal with?
I wonder how many similar lawsuits the state could file against itself for all the "whistle blowers" who have been fired or forced out for the same thing, in IDOC alone?
JDD, his henchmen, and his lapdogs have made sure that anyone who feels the need to point out the serious problems in this department thinks twice and keep their mouths shut. Even the most trivial concerns or suggestions for improvement label you as a troublemaker. How many of the best, competent people have been forced out because they've tried to point out problems? How many people have been sucked into JDD asking for their "ideas" and participated in those ridiculous "Skip Level" meetings with him, then find they are on the list of troublemakers? Those meetings are nothing less than a chance for JDD to convince the youngest and most naive new employees that he is the "best corrections commissioner in America", and to spot the troublemakers, whether they are new or veteran staff. Point out a problem to JDD, and he will be on the phone to your Superintendent. Point out a problem or a concern to your Superintendent, and you are on the list. Anyone who finds themselves on the list is transferred, pushed around, forced out, or fired.
How many Wrongful Terminations has HR had to deal with?
Mitch TV
(Someone made the following comment last evening under "Hail & Farewell", but I've placed it here as a separate post. And if you can't enough of 'Mitch TV', check out Jennifer Wagner's great post about it on her new blog, Hoosier Political Report: http://www.hoosierpoliticalreport.com/2008/05/on-the-teevee-when-at-first-yo.html - P.H.)
"Get ready for "Mitch TV"
No matter what happens in the episodes, the campaign message always comes through. Campaign consultant Mark Lubbers produces the show along with producer Rick Thompson. The two follow Daniels on the campaign trail and at official functions.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The Mitch Daniels re-election campaign launches a statewide reality show featuring the Republican governor this weekend. The first of 12 episodes of "Mitch TV" is a behind-the-scenes look at Election night 2004 when Mitch Daniels won his first term as governor. Five episodes of the half-hour reality show will air in June. Seven episodes are scheduled to air in the weeks leading up to the November election. Campaign consultant Mark Lubbers produces the show along with producer Rick Thompson. The two follow Daniels on the campaign trail and at official functions.
No matter what happens in the episodes, the campaign message always comes through. "And there's no doubt there's a campaign objective and it clearly serves the campaign's objective and the governor's objective to win an election," said Lubbers.
It is a concept that Democrat Jill Long Thompson can't afford to copy." He can put all the infomercials on TV he wants. It doesn't change the reality that his policies have been a dramatic failure," said Thompson spokesman Jeff Harris.
Meantime, the Daniels campaign argues that the format is only effective if you have a candidate willing and able to withstand the scrutiny of an ever-present camera. The first five weeks of "Mitch TV" will cost the Daniels campaign $200,000. It airs in five Indiana television markets and on Louisville, Kentucky television. Lubbers said it's an inexpensive use of campaign dollars when compared to 30-second commercials, but he won't know for sure until November.
by Anonymous
May 29, 2008 10:44 PM
"Get ready for "Mitch TV"
No matter what happens in the episodes, the campaign message always comes through. Campaign consultant Mark Lubbers produces the show along with producer Rick Thompson. The two follow Daniels on the campaign trail and at official functions.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The Mitch Daniels re-election campaign launches a statewide reality show featuring the Republican governor this weekend. The first of 12 episodes of "Mitch TV" is a behind-the-scenes look at Election night 2004 when Mitch Daniels won his first term as governor. Five episodes of the half-hour reality show will air in June. Seven episodes are scheduled to air in the weeks leading up to the November election. Campaign consultant Mark Lubbers produces the show along with producer Rick Thompson. The two follow Daniels on the campaign trail and at official functions.
No matter what happens in the episodes, the campaign message always comes through. "And there's no doubt there's a campaign objective and it clearly serves the campaign's objective and the governor's objective to win an election," said Lubbers.
It is a concept that Democrat Jill Long Thompson can't afford to copy." He can put all the infomercials on TV he wants. It doesn't change the reality that his policies have been a dramatic failure," said Thompson spokesman Jeff Harris.
Meantime, the Daniels campaign argues that the format is only effective if you have a candidate willing and able to withstand the scrutiny of an ever-present camera. The first five weeks of "Mitch TV" will cost the Daniels campaign $200,000. It airs in five Indiana television markets and on Louisville, Kentucky television. Lubbers said it's an inexpensive use of campaign dollars when compared to 30-second commercials, but he won't know for sure until November.
by Anonymous
May 29, 2008 10:44 PM
Thursday, May 29, 2008
PREF
"Do we want things to get better? Then WE will have to expose what is wrong. The only way to fix a problem is to know what the problem is. At this point the Daniel’s administration has made sure to cover up the problems or white wash them and make everything look as if it is being addressed when in reality nothing is being done, as is happening at Plainfield Reentry."
Boy whoever wrote that was RIGHT ON! PREF is a PERFECT EXAMPLE of the idiotic incompetent covered up mess that has become of this department. Invented by a clown and managed by a lapdog! And what is the result??? Does ANYONE in this department think that the PREF is doing anything different or better than other facilities? NO! But if it isnt CO pushing for offenders to be placed there (and I thought they had to qualify?), then it's the offenders who either want to go even though they don't qualify..then they get accepted, or they don't want to go because they heard its about the no programs and mess..and THEY get put there anyway...or the ones who want to go and it would be a good thing but then they DON"T get accepted even though they meet all the qualifications!! Then they change the criteria anyway. Why?? Just to get better statistics??? CLIFF and PLUS and so much of JDDs crap is pure crap but PREF is the worst of it all.
DITCH MITCH AND THE LITTLE DOG TOO!
by Anonymous
Boy whoever wrote that was RIGHT ON! PREF is a PERFECT EXAMPLE of the idiotic incompetent covered up mess that has become of this department. Invented by a clown and managed by a lapdog! And what is the result??? Does ANYONE in this department think that the PREF is doing anything different or better than other facilities? NO! But if it isnt CO pushing for offenders to be placed there (and I thought they had to qualify?), then it's the offenders who either want to go even though they don't qualify..then they get accepted, or they don't want to go because they heard its about the no programs and mess..and THEY get put there anyway...or the ones who want to go and it would be a good thing but then they DON"T get accepted even though they meet all the qualifications!! Then they change the criteria anyway. Why?? Just to get better statistics??? CLIFF and PLUS and so much of JDDs crap is pure crap but PREF is the worst of it all.
DITCH MITCH AND THE LITTLE DOG TOO!
by Anonymous
Not Enough
Its not enough for word to just get out to people about this site. We have to keep it alive. It won't be alive if people don't post. A few peopel have and that is good. Who ever wrote before that we need to hear about what is going on and what you know at your facility was right. This will die if we don't take care of it and that means JDD wins.
by Fooled Once
by Fooled Once
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
The Choice Is Ours
(The following was a comment made this morning under "Hail and Farewell", but it says many important things, so I have placed it as it's own post. - P.H.)
Somehow word of this page needs to get out to all of those who were visiting TDW’s, at least those from the different facilities who care. At this point this blog page has been up several days and has only 19 comments.
Considering the IWP overcrowding, Pendleton boys in the ceiling at the school over the weekend and the death at Putnamville, one would have thought comments would start to appear. There are incidents happening daily, but is everyone getting so harden by the understaffing and lack of safety, security and management skills that they no longer see what is going on? Is it just becoming routine that people die in prison? Or that students con an officer to take them to Recreation (sounds like a perfectly harmless request) then climb into the ceiling so they can steal ink and other items from the school for tattooing. Last, are Indiana prisons so over crowed that women inmates are forced to sleep on blow up bedding? If that is the case do these prisoners have clothing, food, bedding or other necessities?
Before TWD shut down I read people talking about shortages of daily usage items. Are all the facilities short on these items and what items are we talking about? Laundry soap, paper towels, bleach, what specific items? Yes, it is June and everyone knows supplies don’t show up until July, but HOW MENY WEEK/MONTHS have you been without these supplies already. Being short by a few days is one thing, MONTHS is ridiculous!
What I am saying is, the current treatment is inhumane. I buy my dog food that he likes, it is healthy, I take him to the vet when he is sick and given him good care. He sleeps on clean bedding, eats and drinks from a clean bowl, and gets plenty of exercise within the confines of my backyard fence with me watching him. In other words, I treat my dog better then most of the prisoners in the IDOC.
If we have come to a point that we do not recognize that overcrowding, students crawling in the ceiling and the dead of a prisoner does not warrant investigation as well as a HUGE red flag going up to the administration, we are in dire need! As employees we have to make sure everyone is aware what is going on.
Why do you think roll call was stopped? Yes, to save the state paying 15 minutes of over time, but also to keep those working in the facilities from knowing what was going on in the facilities! The administration through doing this would control what was released to the public. But the real downside is that is makes the facility UNSAFE for staff as well as the rest of the inmates. Upper management does not work or live at the facilities, so the problem is not in their face, therefore they don’t care. If they are not going to advise incoming staff, I suggest here is a place to let everyone one know.
Do we want things to get better? Then WE will have to expose what is wrong. The only way to fix a problem is to know what the problem is. At this point the Daniel’s administration has made sure to cover up the problems or white wash them and make everything look as if it is being addressed when in reality nothing is being done, as is happening at Plainfield Reentry.
So folks, the choice is ours, you can come to this page, look and see what has been said, then leave. Or you can start letting us know what is really going on. It is in our hands to make the prison a safe and secure environment. First we need to have the facts and know what is going on within the walls, next we need a plan of action, and third pray that in November the votes go the right way. But we need to get our act together and make this page work for us.
DITCH MITCH IN NOVEMBER and his little dog too!
by Anonymous
Somehow word of this page needs to get out to all of those who were visiting TDW’s, at least those from the different facilities who care. At this point this blog page has been up several days and has only 19 comments.
Considering the IWP overcrowding, Pendleton boys in the ceiling at the school over the weekend and the death at Putnamville, one would have thought comments would start to appear. There are incidents happening daily, but is everyone getting so harden by the understaffing and lack of safety, security and management skills that they no longer see what is going on? Is it just becoming routine that people die in prison? Or that students con an officer to take them to Recreation (sounds like a perfectly harmless request) then climb into the ceiling so they can steal ink and other items from the school for tattooing. Last, are Indiana prisons so over crowed that women inmates are forced to sleep on blow up bedding? If that is the case do these prisoners have clothing, food, bedding or other necessities?
Before TWD shut down I read people talking about shortages of daily usage items. Are all the facilities short on these items and what items are we talking about? Laundry soap, paper towels, bleach, what specific items? Yes, it is June and everyone knows supplies don’t show up until July, but HOW MENY WEEK/MONTHS have you been without these supplies already. Being short by a few days is one thing, MONTHS is ridiculous!
What I am saying is, the current treatment is inhumane. I buy my dog food that he likes, it is healthy, I take him to the vet when he is sick and given him good care. He sleeps on clean bedding, eats and drinks from a clean bowl, and gets plenty of exercise within the confines of my backyard fence with me watching him. In other words, I treat my dog better then most of the prisoners in the IDOC.
If we have come to a point that we do not recognize that overcrowding, students crawling in the ceiling and the dead of a prisoner does not warrant investigation as well as a HUGE red flag going up to the administration, we are in dire need! As employees we have to make sure everyone is aware what is going on.
Why do you think roll call was stopped? Yes, to save the state paying 15 minutes of over time, but also to keep those working in the facilities from knowing what was going on in the facilities! The administration through doing this would control what was released to the public. But the real downside is that is makes the facility UNSAFE for staff as well as the rest of the inmates. Upper management does not work or live at the facilities, so the problem is not in their face, therefore they don’t care. If they are not going to advise incoming staff, I suggest here is a place to let everyone one know.
Do we want things to get better? Then WE will have to expose what is wrong. The only way to fix a problem is to know what the problem is. At this point the Daniel’s administration has made sure to cover up the problems or white wash them and make everything look as if it is being addressed when in reality nothing is being done, as is happening at Plainfield Reentry.
So folks, the choice is ours, you can come to this page, look and see what has been said, then leave. Or you can start letting us know what is really going on. It is in our hands to make the prison a safe and secure environment. First we need to have the facts and know what is going on within the walls, next we need a plan of action, and third pray that in November the votes go the right way. But we need to get our act together and make this page work for us.
DITCH MITCH IN NOVEMBER and his little dog too!
by Anonymous
No!
9:11pm made a comment to the previous post and said this is dead. No! We can't let that happen. I agree we have to keep letting JDD and all the lapdogs know that we are together in our disgust of what he has done and is doing to this dept. I was fooled once by Mitch, but now I have seen the truth behind his ads and he does not care about this state. I won't be fooled again, and I don't want others to be fooled.
I miss TDW it was easier but I like and apprecate what this is. If this dies, the chance for us all to communicate and stay toghether dies. Thats what JDD and his henchmen would like to see so they are off the hook for their mismanagement: they want to divide and conquer. No! No! No!
DITCH MITCH IN NOVEMBER, AND HIS LITTLE DOG TOO!
by Fooled Once
I miss TDW it was easier but I like and apprecate what this is. If this dies, the chance for us all to communicate and stay toghether dies. Thats what JDD and his henchmen would like to see so they are off the hook for their mismanagement: they want to divide and conquer. No! No! No!
DITCH MITCH IN NOVEMBER, AND HIS LITTLE DOG TOO!
by Fooled Once
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