Charles L. Ryan, A most effective evil?

 

No matter how many stipends, how many promises to add staff or how many times Charles Ryan promises to make things better for correctional officers, the facts reveals he actually accomplishes just the opposite of what he reveled or bragged about. Officers and administrators in the know are dubbing him the lesser of the two evils dividing their fears between the gangster prisoners and his administrative rule of law.

Although he has been awarded positive accolades by Governor Janet Brewer, the facts reveal he is a pure proxy for the Republican intentions for private prisons in Arizona and does anything to engage the profit margin for them.Why is Ryan more evil? What makes him such a threat to those that differ with his opinion or management style? The truth is in his management of the prisons as he has been more effective in evil doings than anybody else before him including Dora Schriro and Terry Stewart. Pretty soon his evilness will even outdo himself as he has been hired to do nothing good and everything destructive to state prisons and state employees.

As a change agent for specific GOP legislators, Ryan has protected the citadels of state government bribed by the lobbyist to build more prisons and rent more bed space than ever before. He has created the private prison industry as a powerhouse that influences legislation for almost everything under the sun in the Arizona desert. Almost every piece of legislation has impacted how Ryan runs the prisons and keeps them full with discontent and hate making it more necessary to pass stricter laws that keeps the prosecutors content to put people in penitentiaries for the sake of public safety.

Public prisons are dying and falling apart under Ryan. Thus through his ineffective means to run the public prisons he has bolstered the need for private prisons making stockholders happy and gratified. This was Wall Street’s expectation by ALEC and other groups pushing for more incarceration laws. They were buying stocks and betting Arizona public prisons would fail and privates would expand and they made out like bandits.

Charles Ryan has protected the private industry’s interest in medical care, food service, telephone and commissary services and did this by accepting all litigation as the agent of harm. The fact is that the Attorney General’s office is busy daily with lawsuits that rarely meet the light of a courtroom and a jury thus the risk as low as are the out of court settlements that reflect rare guilt and rare neglect in their summary judgments ordered.

This hedge protection is effectively created by the way Ryan hires his own legal attorneys to steer the AG’s office into the right direction and accept their evidence as factual even though it may have been fabricated or altered in some form or matter.

Governor Brewer’s Chief of Staff and closest advisors vetted Ryan. Before he came back from Abu Ghraib as a contract employee for the government he was already being groomed for the director’s spot before Dora Schriro even left office and Janet Napolitano took the job at homeland security. They helped him against political accusation about Abu Ghraib and their disastrous revelation of abuse and neglect. They backed him then and they are backing him now to keep him in that office.

Who is the most effective evil and what has he done? It has been assumed from the moment he arrived he had good intentions. His promises were for better training, more staff and pay and better prison management principles. In fact he held many prevailing warden’s meetings and conversations that were really based on facts but on personal intentions to change the agency. This assumption he is trying to do the right thing has saved him many times in the minds of his subordinates who began to support him even though his intentions were evil. The fact is that Ryan will do whatever he wants to do or intents to do now and tomorrow.

Ryan has let staff down in many ways. He has taken away from them their covered employee classification and makes them serve at will so they can be terminated at any moment of their service. He stripped them all of their  dignity, respect and promotional opportunities for those qualified and changed the investigative process into a witch hunt for those identified to be undesirables as they do not fit the profile of those running the show and holding coveted positions of power and authority invested and empowered by Ryan himself.

Anyone that criticizes practices, supervisory methods, staffing patterns, or investigative means is targeted and let go. Employees fear the falsely accused method commonly used by investigators that set up staff on the word of prisoners that they are ‘dirty ‘ and dealing with the inmate population although there is no sound or proper evidence to support that.

He is more effective as an evil because he has allowed persons to die inside his prison and masked or disguised the death as a natural one or a certain “other causes” death that is rarely challenged. In fact, between the Governor’s office and the United States Department of Justice, they have allowed him to get away with murder.

Murder in the delay of medical care and prevention of serious diseases, murder of those mentally ill and killing themselves as they struggle to cope without the right medication or the withholding of medicine because of budget constraints. Murder by violence of rampant gang attacks and beat downs that have created racial tension and warfare inside all the state prisons. Murder by the refusal to provide protective custody to those requesting safety because their crime, their sexual orientation or their former gang association is hampering their abilities to cope and function in general populations.

Murder in the form of failing to hold contract facilities to the minimal security standards, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians.

The real Charles L. Ryan emerged after his official appointment in 2010. He has provoked an unannounced racial war, destroyed the inmate classification system and reduced meaningful inmate activities to the point inmates are fighting each other for the good job and people are picked by race and gang influences rather than skills. He dressed up this cover up by creating his own inner circle of cronyism that would convey and obey each and every order from him.

When it’s all said and done, Ryan is not the lesser of the evil in the agency. Ryan is more dangerous that all the gang bangers combined as he holds the key to safe and secure prisons that provide legitimate responsibilities for public safety.