Anyone who has had a brush with prisons in the last 15 years will appreciate the power wielded by the Psychology Departments. They are allowed to act as monarchs of all they survey because they wield the toxic combination of fear and arrogance.
Fear, because no Governor in their right mind would act against a recommendation from a prison psychologist. If a Governor did, and the worst happened, then it's the Governor who carries the can of crap.
And arrogance, because prison psychologists assert the certainty of their opinions and assessments as being nothing short of Holy Writ. They are infallible. Always.
This renders every Lifer perpetually vulnerable. No matter what he does, how he changes, at any moment a prison psychologist can recommend he "do some work". And progress towards release freezes until this is completed.
No matter that no other psychologist has ever noticed this "problem". No matter that the Parole Board and Ministry of Justice have cleared the man for Open prison. All it takes is one trainee psychologist to pipe up and your life is in the crapper.
This vitriol comes after meeting yet another man returned from Leyhill Open prison because some psychologist decided - and screw the Parole Board and Ministry - that he shouldn't be in Open prison.
This situation has held for 15 years now. Psychology Departments have infested every prison and their occupants strut with a certainty that the Twelve Apostles would baulk at demonstrating. This panoply of the immoral has cost hundreds of millions of pounds.
And guess what? They haven't reduced the re-offending rate one iota. The words "emperor", "new" and "clothes" come to mind. Come the revolution...!
Showing posts with label prison psychologists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prison psychologists. Show all posts
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Therapeutic Deception
The infestation of psychologists into prisons which began about 15 years ago has had many unforeseen consequences. One of which is, if a prisoner is a fluent liar then he is more likely to be released than is an honest critic.
The cognitive psychology courses that we are forced through ("it’s voluntary" - you just won't get released if you don't do them) are riddled with psycho-babble jargon. After passing through a few of these courses, some cons become very fluent in both the jargon and in discerning just what it is the psychologists want to hear.
And so they lie. They present themselves as being 'cured' by these psychological treatments, clothing themselves in the façade that the psychologists crafted for them. And they wear it well.
So well that people we know are devious, slippery bastards that we'd never live next to outside persuade staff and the parole board to release them.
And then there are people like me... I don't manipulate and I don't lie. If I did, I wouldn't still be sitting here. When I disagree, it's with good reason and I will defend my position. The price paid for this is many extra years in prison.
How can a criminal justice system become so self-absorbed, so twisted, that it conspires to accept blatant lies which please them whilst hammering the honest critic?
The cognitive psychology courses that we are forced through ("it’s voluntary" - you just won't get released if you don't do them) are riddled with psycho-babble jargon. After passing through a few of these courses, some cons become very fluent in both the jargon and in discerning just what it is the psychologists want to hear.
And so they lie. They present themselves as being 'cured' by these psychological treatments, clothing themselves in the façade that the psychologists crafted for them. And they wear it well.
So well that people we know are devious, slippery bastards that we'd never live next to outside persuade staff and the parole board to release them.
And then there are people like me... I don't manipulate and I don't lie. If I did, I wouldn't still be sitting here. When I disagree, it's with good reason and I will defend my position. The price paid for this is many extra years in prison.
How can a criminal justice system become so self-absorbed, so twisted, that it conspires to accept blatant lies which please them whilst hammering the honest critic?
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