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MEDIA AND MAYHEM
Musings on the Crowded, Contentious Terrain of Media, Violence, and Culture
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My Ten Favorite Films
Ten best lists of films are dumb. They force dumb choices and add almost nothing to serious discussion and criticism.
Big deal.
I love them. I love reading them. I love making them. And here is how I go about it.
At any given time I always have a list of contenders. If a film has any claim whatsoever on ever making it into my top ten, it goes on the list. Then, one by one, I cross out films until there are only ten left. These are the films that I most enjoyed watching, not those that I would necessarily rank as the highest expressions of the craft. Having said that, it is almost certainly the case that my contenders are overwhelmingly well crafted. But to make my top 10, I have to viscerally and emotionally love the experience of watching the film.
Important: "Love" does not mean that I found the experience pleasant, just that I reveled in the pleasure of watching a story told with narrative skill and total command of the formal elements of film.
The best example of a film that embodies all these confusing criteria is my favorite of them all, Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Dekalog." I suppose you could say I enjoyed watching it, but if you have seen it you will understand why "enjoy" is perhaps not quite the most apt word for the experience. What, after all, do you say about a film in which one of the very best of the sections (#1 I Am the Lord Your God) was so emotionally shattering that I have only watched it once and almost certainly will never be able to watch it again?
So here is the list as of today. If a film has a number, it made the top ten. The reasons why a film didn't make the top ten are varied and, most often, beyond rational explanation. My choices are infinitely more visceral than cerebral.
By the way, I have a separate documentary list, which I will post soon. Salesman, although a documentary, is a work of such poignancy and genius that it would make any list I create.
I very much hope you might post your ten best lists and describe your agreements and your quarrels with mine. Perhaps you think that either an omission or inclusion of mine is unforgivable.
1. Dekalog (1989)
Au Revoir les Enfants
Shop on Main Street (1965)
10. Midnight Cowboy
3. Jeux interdits
7. Goodfellas
8. Rear Window
Invaders from Mars
4. Salesman
2. Godfather 1/Godfather 2
9. Double Indemnity
Les Diaboliques
Le Salaire de la peur
Hotel Terminus
5. Amarcord
6. Night and Fog
The Marriage of Maria Braun
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An electro-magnetic pulse attack could destroy America's defenses, leaving the U.S. in a technology world equivalent to the 1800s. We wouldn't even be able to figure out who attacked us.
An EMP weapon would take out electronic devices including targeting, communications, navigation and sensor systems, and it would cripple our ability to defend ourselves against a land invasion. The more we use electronic devices, the more dependent we are on them, and the more vulnerable we are to this sort of threat.
Now a European institute says it has developed a device that can withstand the EMP -- and identify an attacker in the aftermath.
An EMP is a blast of electromagnetic energy that can disrupt -- if not destroy -- electronic devices within an affected area. You can't smell, taste or feel EMP radiation, which can be unleashed by nuclear explosions as well as by solar storms and devices.
From a low-level electromagnetic pulse that could jam electronics systems temporarily through to megabursts that would utterly fry electric and electronic equipment, any sort of pulse would be bad news.
Would time travelers leave online traces?
Planes could fall from the skies, transportation could come to a screeching halt, water and sewage systems could suddenly cease to work, and on and on. An EMP can destroy electrical components permanently; they could not be repaired.
EMP attacks are popular devices in films. In "Ocean's Eleven," George Clooney's gang uses one to take out Las Vegas' power grid; in the "Matrix" films, Keanu Reeves uses one to keep nasty robot squid off his spaceship.
What works on the silver screen is also conceivable in reality," Michael Joster, a researcher from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Technological Trend Analysis INT in Euskirchen, said in a statement.
Joster's team is developing technology to detect the source of an EMP attack, including an attack's strength, frequency and direction.
Such a device would be an engineering feat, since it would need not only to withstand the pulse, but to measure very high field strengths from very short pulses.
To identify type, location and duration, it uses four specialized antennae mounted on a tripod, each of which covers a 90-degree quadrant.
In a monitoring station, a computer takes data from Joster's device. The computer takes data from the device, analyzes it and then provides answers on screen -- where the blast came from and how long it lasted.
The Fraunhofer Institute declined to reveal further details about their device; the stakes in EMP research couldn't be higher, after all, so details about tech related to the threat is closely controlled.
Some high-power microwave weapons small enough to fit in a suitcase can disable smaller targets like neighborhoods, banks and stock exchanges. Devices can be used to cause confusion or to infiltrate secure areas by disabling alarm systems. An attacker would merely need to get within a few yards of a target and push a button to unleash the pulse.
Recently in Berlin, thieves have been using electromagnetic waves to defeat limousine security systems, for example.
All electronic devices can take a certain amount of radiation, enabling them to operate without interference from other nearby devices.
But personal devices like televisions and smartphones aren't as important as America's electrnoic grid and defense systems. Completely shielding all our tech, while possible, would be very expensive.


The Auditor-General's Office has asked all government ministries to exhaust the processes available with their internal auditors before matters are referred to the Auditor Generals' Office.
That's according to the Auditor-General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo.
He stated that the poor level of training of internal auditors of some ministries has contributed to the continuous referral of internal audit issues to the Auditor General's office.
Mr. Domelevo cited issues like the payment of salaries should not be referred to the Auditor Generals' Office, but should rather be handled by the internal auditors of the various Ministries.
Speaking to Citi Business News on the current practice, Mr. Domelevo called on the various Ministries to properly train their internal auditors to enable them handle all internal audit issues of the Ministries.
The Auditor General however stated that it has decided not to entertain the requests of the Ministries from this month.


Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion recommending approval of Keytruda, Merck's anti-PD-1 therapy, in combination with pemetrexed (Alimta) and platinum chemotherapy (cisplatin or carboplatin) for the first-line treatment of metastatic nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in adults whose tumors have no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations, regardless of PD-L1 expression. If approved, this would mark the first approval in Europe for an anti-PD-1 therapy in combination with chemotherapy, and is based on overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) data from the phase 3 KEYNOTE-189 trial.
he CHMP also adopted a positive opinion recommending approval of Keytruda as monotherapy for the treatment of recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) in adults whose tumors express PD-L1 with a tumor proportion score (TPS) of =50 percent, and who progressed on or after exposure to platinum-based chemotherapy, based on data from the Phase 3 KEYNOTE-040 trial. These two recommendations will now be reviewed by the European Commission for marketing authorization in the European Union (EU). A final decision on both recommendations is expected in the third quarter of 2018.
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Health Hazard Evaluation Program : what employers should know
DHHS publication ; no. (NIOSH) 2014-135
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Hazard Evaluations and Technical Assistance Branch.
This pamphlet explains NIOSH (the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) and its mission (to develop new knowledge about occupational safety and health and see that it is used to protect workers). It goes on to describe the Institute's Health Hazard Evaluation (HHE) Program, The Health Hazard Evaluation (HHE) Program evaluates workplaces throughout the United States. If you are an employer and want help assessing and controlling possible work-related health hazards in your workplace, you can ask for an evaluation. It is done at no cost to you. The HHE Program has expertise in many areas, including hazard identification, exposure assessment, symptom surveys, medical testing, and engineering controls. Health hazards that can be assessed include: 1) physical agents such as heat and noise; 2) biological agents such as mold; 3) infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and influenza; 4) chemicals such as solvents, metals, and particulates, and 5) psychosocial issues such as work stress. The pamphlet also points out the benefits to employers of having an evaluation done for their businesses, who can request an evaluation, and the contact information for the Institute and this program.	NIOSHTIC No. 20045131
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Control of health and safety hazards in commercial drycleaners : chemical exposures, fire Hazards, and ergonomic risk factors
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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This study investigates control methods and technologies used in the drycleaning industry for reducing occupational exposures to tetrachloroethylene(perchloroethylene-PERC). It also examines drycleaning machines that use petroleum-based solvents. It ...
Request for assistance in preventing silicosis and deaths in construction workers.
Linch, Kenneth D.; Groce, Dennis W.; Musgrave; Karl J.; Jajosky, Ruth A.; Short, Steven R.; Parker, J. E. (John E.);
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SEIU's message has been more subdued lately. Maybe they know the blood in the water is real this time. Since union layoffs usually happen based on seniority, will the older members support reduced pay so the younger members can keep their jobs? All I know is, when SEIU starts backing down, it's about to get real ugly in unionville.
"California's chronic budget deficit is a revenue problem," said Jim Hard, Local 1000 vice president for organizing and representation. "We must insist that legislators drop their political baggage to take real actions on raising revenue."
Our bargaining team has been meeting with state negotiators for six months and we've already signed more than 400 tentative agreements that both protect our hard-earned guarantees from past contracts and that improve our current contract.
"We've been very strategic in our approach," said Walker. "We've listened to members, prioritized their concerns and continue to organize and fight back."
Notice the shift from an aggressive message to an emphasis on previous success. The SEIU membership is divided; can the Governator conquer?
disguising wage cuts as unpaid "furloughs."
Hehe. I got a nice chuckle out of that. I don't think the governor is trying to disguise anything - it's an obvious paycut. Workers will take home less at the end of the month. Where's the disguise?
Seems like he'll have to.
Draging state employees into the problem.... like we don't use the budget to pay them or something?
"Draging state employees into the problem.... like we don't use the budget to pay them or something?"
ok, I'll bite. I'll take a pay cut. And I'm sure all non-govt-employee tax payers in CA will be happy to donate some extra tax money to help solve the problem too.
Behind that all the stereotypes of govt employees sitting on their asses playing solitaire all day are some actual hard working people who don't deserve a pay cut any more than any other resident of the state.
Yeah, the vitriol in the SEIU newsletters is something to behold. This year they beat up and insulted every politician, then claimed "victory" after getting some paltry raise. The whole SEIU is a joke.
Dude - took that pay cut for the past 2 years.... it IS your turn.
I've worked at large and small private companies. A semi regular 10-20% house cleaning would help them also... not just govt.
The problem is that when they cut, it's the worker bees that loose their jobs first, not the folks we'd all like to get rid off.
Just look at the UCD jobs board: the only positions left open are in the 150K+ range.
Many years ago I was a contractor installing computer and telephone systems for the State before Pete Wilson cut the program and I'll never forget the job we had at the PUC building on Van Ness in San Francisco. These folks would literally get new computers every year and they were all networked together (which was a big deal at the time) and all they would ever do was play network hearts or solitaire on them all day long. This is not stereotype unfortunately.
Sometimes we would show up to move one group of folks from one floor to another, and then a few months later we would move them back. I asked the building manager about this absurdity and he simply said that he was trying to burn up the budget so he could get it renewed the next year. Often I would see "workers" wandering around aimlessly in the building - the building manager referred to these zombies as "deadwood". One gal had a coffee cup and a pair of slippers and I would see her on one floor just walking slowly down the hallways and then she would show up on other floors just wandering around. Never talked to anybody or did anything as far as I could tell - just shuffled around the building in her slippers all day. I have no idea how much she was getting paid but whatever it was, it was way too much.
What I discovered over the five years of working at the various state buildings is you have a core group of extremely hard workers that basically do all the actual work, and tons and tons of deadwood that do nothing and leech off the system. There is much more expectation of performance and ability to weed out the deadwood in the private sector. All we need to do is (somehow) find and get rid of the deadwood army and keep the good workers and we should be able to balance the budget.
Maybe the state should get an independent external auditor like in the movie "Office Space" and just call everyone in and find out what they are actually doing, and if the answer is "nothing" then give them the axe.
all they would ever do was play network hearts or solitaire on them all day long. This is not stereotype unfortunately.
I know it's not. My recent contracting for the state brought me into contact with more than enough professional solitaire players, on 22" flat screen monitors, of course. But you're right about there being a core group of hard workers, they're just not in the majority from what I personally saw.
All we need to do is (somehow) find and get rid of the deadwood army and keep the good workers and we should be able to balance the budget.
The only way to guarantee that government runs efficiently is to limit its responsibilities. Government administered anything will always always always always always be more wasteful and less efficient than the alternative. So common sense should tell us less government is the best course of action. Expecting government to realistically manage its excesses is silly.
Forgive me for saying this, but: Ha! There's absolutely no way you can balance the state budget through staff reductions. Entitlement and K-12 spending is where it's at. Firing all state employees will only save $20 billion per year.
State workers are a convenient(and deserving) scapegoat, but there won't be a balanced budget unless actual spending is cut or taxes are increased.
Politically, I don't think there's any way state workers get out of this without a concession. They're the most visible part of the state bureaucracy, and cutting salaries or staff levels will help make other cuts more palatable to voters.
Max, you could be underestimating the negative effect that CALPERS (employee related costs) will have on the budget. Anderson now says that we will be $42B in the hole, as opposed to the rosy $15B that Arnie suggests!!
Surely this must be due in part to the huge CALPERS losses recently? BTW, you'll get no argument from me about reducing entitlements and K-12 spending. Ironically, the K-12 spending in CA is larger than any other states entire budget, yet the CTA is running ads non-stop screaming for more money! They (CTA) better take a good hard look at what is happening with the UAW and decide if they want to go down that road as well.
Local education/school districts are pretty similar to any other aspect of government. Waste abounds.
It was just reported the other day that the LA Unified school district bought out the last year of their superintendant's contract for half a mil. One of our own local school districts bought out the last year (or 2, can't remember) of their former superintendant's contract for 1 mil, and this was a tiny district.


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I would love to hear about your pros and cons, and how the upkeep is on your copper sink. I just ordered the same sink you have but I ordered the single bowl. I love it! I actually ordered a white apron front sink, but when a friend showed me the copper I changed my mind and got the copper!
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In 2021, atmospheric CO2 to pass iconic threshold: UK Met Office
'It took over 200 years for levels to increase by 25 per cent, but now just over 30 years later we are approaching a 50 percent increase.' Image courtesy: IANS
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Despite these La Nina-related effects, CO2 will still continue to build up in the atmosphere and will exceed 417 ppm (parts per million) for several weeks from April to June in 2021, which is "50 per cent higher than the level of 278 ppm in the late 18th Century when widespread industrial activity began", said the Met Office.
"Although the Covid-19 pandemic meant that 7 per cent less CO2 was emitted worldwide in 2020 than in previous years, that still added to the ongoing build-up in the atmosphere," said Professor Richard Betts, who leads the production of the Met Office's annual CO2 forecast.
"The human-caused build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere is accelerating. It took over 200 years for levels to increase by 25 per cent, but now just over 30 years later we are approaching a 50 percent increase.
"Reversing this trend and slowing the atmospheric CO2 rise will need global emissions to reduce, and bringing them to a halt will need global emissions to be brought down to net zero. This needs to happen within about the next 30 years if global warming is to be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius," the professor added.
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This eclectic mix of the macabre and the maniacal features 27 tales of terror:
A man purchases a painting by the notorious serial killer, John Wayne Gacy
A night of seemingly harmless flirtation brings a woman much more than she bargained for
A journalist's interview for a human-interest story quickly evolves into a living, breathing nightmare
A man's dream of making contact with extraterrestrials has unforeseen consequences
While investigating a beautiful and mysterious planet, the crew of the Starship Tigris quickly discovers that all is not the paradise it appears to be
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In a near-future dystopia, stringent laws are passed dictating how men can interact with women
A couple receives a phone call from their daughter on the 15-year anniversary eve of her death
An elite team discovers the sole lifeform on a deserted planet is carrying a deadly secret
A bus ride takes an unexpected detour into the gruesome and the macabre
Symphony of the Damned summons forth the ghoulishly diabolical talents of authors Adam C. Mitchell, A.E. Jackson, Andy Holberry, Buck Hanno, Catherine Jordan, David Lowrie, Debra J. Tillar, James A. Hirons, James Mascia, Luis Medina, Margaret McGoverne, Marie Lanza, Matthew Hollis Damon, Matt Martinek, Pat O'Neill, R.M. Breslin, Sara Jordan-Heintz, TroyAnthony Schermer, Victoria Hancox, and concludes with a grippingly terrifying novella by J. Miles Parker.
The Reprisal by Sara Jordan-Heintz
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Faerfall by Pat O'Neill
A Little Off the Top by TroyAnthony Schermer
A Kiss is Not a Kiss by Catherine Jordan
Shadows Under Leamouth by Margaret McGoverne
Caedes Damnatorum Ataraxia by Adam C. Mitchell
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Heartache by Buck Hanno
The Waking Game by A.E. Jackson
The Craving by R.M. Breslin
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One for the Road by Victoria Hancox
Hiding Space by James A. Hirons
All Sales Are Final by Luis Medina
The Essence of Me by David Lowrie
Devil May Come by Marie Lanza
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Worm by TroyAnthony Schermer
An Act of Kindness by James Mascia
The Death Party by Catherine Jordan
Vincent Rides the Bus by Matt Martinek
Widescream Projection by Buck Hanno
Rest and Relaxation by A.E. Jackson
The Sanderling by Matthew Hollis Damon
The Canyon by Debra J. Tillar
Sins in the Flesh by J. Miles Parker
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Raised in the Pocono Mountains, Catherine Jordan is inspired by comeuppance and Flannery O'Connor. Catherine's writing has been featured in a variety of anthologies. She is the review coordinator for horrortree.com, the email announcement manager for HWA (active member), and edits at Fortress Publishing. Ms. Jordan has judged writing awards, and she facilitates creative writing courses and critique groups. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark sparked her horror writing, and she is thrilled to be included in the fourth installment, Don't Turn Out the Lights: A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Her first novel, Seeking Samiel, came out in 2012. It did well enough to inspire more. Ms. Jordan lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and five children.
Her books are available at Sunbury Press, amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com and through her website, catherinejordan.com
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Buck Hanno grew up on the wide open plains, but eventually stampeded to the wide open ocean of a tropical island, where his writin' life is goin' nowhere slow. On occasion, he has been known to surf wearing his denim cowboy hat. His favorite movie is pretty much any double feature, so long as he has plenty of buttered popcorn, a bladder bustin' soda pop, and his best girl at his side. He hopes you enjoy his Schlock Zone Drive-In Theatre novella, Ratfish, and that all y'all start a social media campaign to get the SyFy Channel to add it to their Saturday nite line-up, along with all the other monster and disaster flicks we all know and love. A good schlock movie ain't too stupid; it's just stupid enough.
Sara Jordan-Heintz
Sara Jordan-Heintz is a writer, editor, historian and award-winning newspaper journalist. She has written hundreds of articles for newspapers and magazines, ranging from human interest stories, business profiles, non-profit sector, education, women's issues, local and regional history, antiques and collectibles, health and wellness, animal welfare, and more.
Her cultural critique of the 1950-era Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book was published in the Queen's Quarterly summer 2022 issue. It is a Canadian peer-reviewed academic journal of cultural studies that was established in 1893. Over the years, the list of those who have contributed to the Quarterly is impressive and includes: Sinclair Ross, Margaret Laurence, W.O. Mitchell and Margaret Atwood .
Her short story "Escaping" was included in the June 2022 anthology "Movement: Our Bodies in Action" and in the August 2022 "Jewels in the Queen's Crown" anthology, both released by Sweetycat Press.
Her latest book "Who Killed Dorothy Kilgallen?" (2022) is based on her 2007 widely-read magazine article of the same name.
Her short horror story "The Reprisal" was published in Savage Realms Press' volume I anthology "Symphony of the Damned." (2022).
Her sci-fi/fantasy story "The Acquisition of Vidalia Somerset" was published in Inkd Publishing's anthology "Hidden Villains" (2022).
Her poem "The Sounds of Nature" was published in the poetry anthology "World Common Literature" by India-based poet Sourav Sarkar in December 2021. Her poem "A.H. Haiku" was published in the poetry book "Cooch Behar Anthology" by India-based poet Sourav Sarkar (2022).
Jordan-Heintz is the author of "Going Hollywood: Midwesterners in Movieland," (2019) the first book of its kind to chronicle the story behind the story of twelve Hollywood legends from America's Heartland: Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Anne Baxter, Jean Seberg, Jane Russell, Dorothy Dandridge, Rock Hudson, Marilyn Maxwell, Jane Wyman and Louella Parsons.
Her debut work of fiction, "A Day Saved is a Day Earned", a novella set in 1961, is available as an eBook. It was also published in Rod Serling Books' inaugural anthology "Submitted For Your Approval" in 2015, edited by Anne Serling, rereleased in 2022.
Her short stories (primarily speculative fiction), have been published in the following: "101 Words," "Red Planet Magazine," "365 Tomorrows," "Friday Flash Fiction," "Better Than Starbucks," "Potato Soup Journal," "Blink Ink" and "The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang."
Her sci-fi/fantasy short story "Skeptic in the Woods" was published in Brilliant Flash Fiction's print anthology "Branching Out" (2021).
Her short story "Sardines" was nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize for Best Small Fictions and the Best Microfiction by "The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang."
Jordan-Heintz is a recipient of the Genevieve Mauck Stoufer Outstanding Young Iowa Journalists Award from the Iowa Newspaper Association, and has received honors from the Associated Press (2018).
She began writing for her family business, Midwest Today magazine, at age 14. For that publication, she has written everything from fashion and advice columns, recipe guides, restaurant reviews and feature stories.
Her articles have appeared in: Iowa Historical Review, Antique Trader, Farm Collector, Rock & Gem, Antique Bottle & Glass Collector, Collectors Journal, Barr's Postcard News & Ephemera, Antique Back Roads, Antique Doll Collector, Auction Central News, Classic Images: The Newspaper of Film Fandom, Electrical Apparatus magazine, Queen's Quarterly (based in Canada), Iowa Grocery Industry Association, The Witness, Equine Wellness, Animal Wellness, Discover Vintage America, DM Juice, MSN, Hola America News and Cooch Behar magazine (based in India).
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies and history from the University of Iowa.
She lives in Iowa with her husband Andy Heintz, whose debut book "Dissidents of the International Left" was published by New Internationalist (2019).
Marie Lanza
Marie Lanza writes fast-paced horror, thrillers. She is the author of post-apocalyptic horror series Fractured, the short story e-series The Colony, and a novella The Strangers, along with other short stories part of larger Anthologies.
She currently resides in Los Angeles, California with her husband and two daughters.
To learn about upcoming book releases and projects for Marie Lanza, visit her website. www.MarieLanza.com
Margaret McGoverne
Margaret McGoverne enjoys weaving historical facts and fiction with speculative Sci-Fi in her writing.
The Battle of Watling Street is Margaret's first published novella, an alternate history tale that re-imagines the end of the Celtic Queen Boudicca. Margaret is currently writing the full-length sequel set in modern-day Britain.
Margaret's flash fiction has featured in Reflex Fiction's Flash Anthologies Vol 1 & 2, and has been long listed for the Bath Flash Fiction Award. Her short horror and Cthulhu mythos fiction have been published in several anthologies.
She lives with her family of humans and felines, not too far from London.
Margaret blogs about writing at https://www.margaretmcgoverne.com, or you can catch up with her on Twitter: @sureyourewrite
Matthew Hollis Damon
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Growing up as a "really repressed nerd playing Dungeons and Dragons and running around in the woods with imaginary swords and an overinflated sense of heroism," it was probably inevitable that Damon would end up a storyteller with a flair for adventure and an outsider perspective.
Despite coming of age hopelessly sexually obsessed and "in a childhood timewarp" that he believes left him developmentally behind his peers, Damon nonetheless obtained an associate degree in Radio and Television, attended Skidmore College where he studied psychology and creative writing and then moved out to San Francisco—like Kerouac, Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti before him—to forge his path as a writer, in one way or another.
He didn't find literary fame in the Bay area but, during a stint in a bookstore working undercover in loss prevention, he was hit hard by two revelations. First, turning writing into a viable career was proving to be harder than he imagined. Second, a homeless guy in front of the store begging for change made about 300% more money than Damon did at his job—a "free market" lesson he wouldn't forget.
Determined to walk away from "wage slavery," see the world on his own terms and become a writer the old-fashioned way (living as a Bohemian and scrawling notes as he went along), he wandered homeless for the next five years. Beginning his drug-addled, sex-crazed, inspired and ultimately enlightening journey in Europe, he describes this period as, "the most crucial, life-changing event in my life, when I really started coming into my own and figuring out who I am." The entire wild ride is documented in Damon's colorful memoir, You Pretty Things.
He has since self-published three other books: Space Chicken, a highly imaginative children's story about the value of dreams and importance of overcoming fear; The Shadow Keep, a choose-your-own-adventure style fantasy; and Dead High, a zombie apocalypse choose-your-own-adventure style book with incredible illustrations by Andy Atom Taylor. Now with Severed Press, a leading independent publisher of horror and science fiction, Damon makes his literary debut with Destiny Nowhere.
He lives in Minoa, NY with his fiance, children, and a cat named Ghost.
Victoria Hancox
Living in Berlin but still a Mancunian at heart!
Victoria was raised on a steady diet of James Herbert and Hammer horror, which could explain her penchant for gore, ghouls and all things macabre.
In addition to writing twisted tales, she likes to immerse herself in the world of interactive gamebooks, revisiting her misspent youth, where she always cheated and never died.
For all the latest news, reviews and flights of fancy, visit her at www.victoriahancox.com
R.M. Breslin
R.M. Breslin lives in the North of England with her fiancée, their fish and their African Pygmy Hedgehog! After writing little projects here and there throughout her life, R.M. Breslin finally published her first book, In Plain Sight, in 2020, shortly followed by Through the Corn in 2021. As well as these, R.M. Breslin has also participated in the horror anthology The Dire Circle.
Keep up-to-date with all new releases using the following:
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Matt Martinek
Matt Martinek is a singer/songwriter and author from Johnstown, PA, whose passion is the creative process itself. Whether it's through song or the written word, Matt's works always find their audience. His writing credits include short stories for Sirens Call Magazine, Hellbound Books, and Coffin Bell Journal, amongst many other publications. Matt has also recently published his first collection of short horror stories, "What Evil Lurks...", as well as his newest horror release "The Oddest Couple". Be on the lookout for The Oddest Couple II: Three's A Clown, coming in Fall of 2022! If you can handle it, that is!
James A Hirons
James was born in Canterbury, Kent in the mid 1970's. By the age of four, he and his mother and sisters moved to Lincoln where he would live until 2017. He was an avid fan of the Fighting Fantasy book series by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. Excelling in infant school winning a 3 gold star accolade for an adaptation of The Wizard Of Oz, James would leave high school with few good results due to troubles at home. His interest in interactive literature remained, and he has now met his aforementioned heroes several times. He is good friends with Mark Lain and several other modern gamebook authors, and decided to write a few himself.
In 2020, when Coronavirus had everyone in lock down, he seized his chance, and inside a year three Literally Immersive Gamebooks were published. The Druids Of Pneuma was written years earlier when he was just 19, but not happy with the result he was later inspired to rewrite the background, with new characters inspired whilst walking his dog along the beach where he currently lives in Scotland.
Amongst writing, he enjoys raising money for charity, gardening, fishing and spending time with his family.
Debra J Tillar
Debra was born in London and grew up in NYC. She studied art in high school, majored in anthropology in college, and became an archaeologist. Seeking adventure, Debra lived on a small island in Micronesia for four years where she began to write travel and human interest articles that were published in Pacific area magazines and newspapers. During that time she also worked with the local historical preservation society to promote the island's stone ruins and museum.
Debra has traveled all over the world and has visited over 50 countries and all seven continents. She wrote travel articles and published a travel zine while raising two daughters in southern New Hampshire.
When not writing, Debra creates art from natural objects and is a juried member of the NH Art Association. Her work is displayed and sold in local galleries.
She lives on the seacoast of New Hampshire and she still loves to travel.
Review for THE NOMAD: Book One--
"A bold and adventurous vision of humanity's future history, tapping into elements of sci-fi, philosophy, and pop culture. Readers are pulled into a well-crafted puzzle of prose, as Tillar has a sharp and clever pen. Compelling characters may drive this novel, but the futuristic worlds Tillar builds are highly inventive. The Nomad has a deeply creative premise, savage plot twists, and a narrative style that playfully bends the boundaries of storytelling." –Self-Publishing Review
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Pat O'Neill
Maybe you already knew that Lynn TroyAnthony Schermer is an author, game designer, and a publisher, but did you know that he can also make a mean Filipino eggroll (lumpia)?
An avid collector of interactive fiction and gamebooks, like Fighting Fantasy and Choose Your Own Adventures, it should come as no surprise that Troy's first book, Balance of Fate: The Legorian Kings Saga, is also a choice-based narrative adventure. The third and much-anticipated title in the Savage Realms Gamebooks series, a high fantasy adventure entitled Malivor: Cataclysm's Edge, drops later this year.
J. Miles Parker
J. Miles Parker is the author of "Sins in the Flesh", a novella from the chilling collection "Symphony of the Damned". He is an author of horror and fantasy.
A.E. Jackson
A.E. Jackson writes uncanny speculative fiction for your enjoyment.
He believes there are malevolent forces, just below the surface, tugging us all down. He knows another force, more benevolent than we deserve, works to keep us buoyant.
He reads Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Roald Dahl, Stephen King, Paulo Coelho, Richard Matheson, H.P. Lovecraft, and Richard Bach.
He lives in Delaware and is married with two children.
Lisa H. Owens
5.0 out of 5 stars 🧟♂Filled with Top-Notch Horror!🧟♀
The publisher did a great job of screening submissions to get a real mix of styles, so if you love horror, like I do, you will enjoy this anthology. I liked them all but my favorite was "Death Party" by Catherine Jordon. Enjoy!😊
Milton Wilson
5.0 out of 5 stars Very strong horror anthology!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 23, 2022
There are a lot of authors I don't know I'm here, and a few I am familiar with. Halfway through it and so far I have liked every single story except one… Great to see some unique indie voices springing up that I have never been introduced to.
Gordon Hearn.
5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling Horror You Can't Put Down
A great collection of new and experienced authors drawn from traditional short story, novella, and novel markets - as well as the gamebook market. Each tale begins with an intriguing premise and escalates the tension from that point forward to the unique and inevitable conclusions you won't see coming!
DJT
5.0 out of 5 stars A treasure trove of short horror!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 3, 2022
This anthology has a wide range of creepy stories to suit all tastes. Shades of Lovecraft, Bradbury, Heinlein, Poe... Monsters, demons, aliens, murderers and ghosts. Creative stories and great writing!
4.0 out of 5 stars Horrors for All
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 23, 2022
There are two basic kinds of anthologies: those with a strict, well-defined theme and those which simply contain a broad variety of stories within a certain genre. Symphony of the Damned is one of the latter. The general theme seems to be simply: horror. The stories here are all over the place - in a wonderfully multifarious way.
The beauty of anthologies like this is that there's sure to be something here for everyone. If there are a few stories which don't grab the interest of the reader, it's easy enough to skip over them and go to the next. (I did this with two or three tales, simply because it was obvious from the start that they were sci-fi horror, which I don't generally care for.)
The stories which stand out as clear winners will vary according to the reader's preference, but here were my favorites:
"#22" by Matt Martinek - A man purchases a piece of serial killer memorabilia and discovers that the killer lives on in his artwork.
"Heartache" by Buck Hanno - imagine being a patient who is awake but unable to move or react in any way during a four-hour-long major surgery. Imagine the pain and the panic. Enjoy.
"The Essence of Me" by David Lowrie - an aging sorcerer hides himself away in a hoarder's paradise of a house, always careful to make sure that no part of himself ever leaves the house lest his old enemies use this leaked part of his essence to find him. Of course, one can never be completely sure...
"The Death Party" by Catherine Jordan - a story in which lovers of Mr. Poe will find much to get excited about.
"Sins in the Flesh" by J. Miles Parker - this one is more of a novelette than a short story, taking up the last seventy-four pages of the book. It reads like a schlocky teen horror flick from the 1980s, complete with a group of people in an old abandoned hospital, ridiculous sex scenes, and bizarre, grotesque monstrosities. It's disgustingly good fun.
This anthology is one of those that's great to keep on your bedside table, picking it up to read a story or two each night before going to sleep. It's sure to give you pleasant nightmares.
Ramsey Scott
5.0 out of 5 stars A unique collection of horror!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 13, 2022
This series really spoke to me on a lot of levels. Some of it was totally dark, extreme, horrific stuff. Some of it was Lovecraftian, and a good mix of futuristic or science fiction scenarios as well. It impressed me because of the variety, and also the quality of the writing. There is so much to like about this anthology, and I think it's perfect for a horror aficionado who likes to have some short horror sitting beside the bed for those perfect moments when you don't want to be immersed in an entire book, but rather to sit in the quiet of your room and dip into the nightmares of many different authors, tasting the different flavors of like a box of poisoned chocolates. 5 Stars from me and a thank you to the cast and crew who brought us this diabolical little feast. In perusing them more, I see Savage Realms is a gamebook publisher originally. Here's to hoping they will be releasing more horror fiction as well!
DD Gott - Donadees Corner
5.0 out of 5 stars Are you ready for some spine-tingling horror reading? This is it! Over 400 pages of terror!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 18, 2022
Mathew Hollis Damon & Others – Symphony of the Damned – Reviewed 5/17/22 – Read 4/30-5/17/22
This book is a collection of fantastic authors who love to chill the readers with their spine-tingling horror stories. I have read other stories from a few of these authors; each kept me on the edge of the chair and made sure all the lights were on. This book will chill you, and you are going to want to sleep with the lights on and check under the bed; doors are all locked, and you might not want to be alone after reading these. Take your time and be sure to note the author's names as they will be someone you will want to read more of their work! Add "Symphony of the Damned" to your Horror Library today!!!
• ASIN: B09Y8R83M7
• Publisher: Savage Realms Press
• Publication Date: 5/18/2022
• File Size: 662 KB
• Print Length: 431 pages
• Genre: Horror Anthologies, Science Fiction Anthologies, Horror
Leva Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic read!
A great set of short stories! Each one is so unique and full of excitement! A great way to find new authors!
4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of nasty stories - in a good way
I picked this up on Kindle as it's on offer, and I know precisely one of the authors listed; you get a lot of bang for your buck at under a pound; more than 20 stories, coming in at 400 pages. Most of the tales are punchy, modern takes, some just a few pages long, a couple of nearly novella length. Some tales recall the cult Pan Books of Horror of the 70s and 80s, while others are more Sci-Fi horror. Overall, I recommend it, especially at the current price; with some nice, nasty tales, and some authors to keep an eye out for in the future.


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Privatized Prisons: A Human Marketplace
By Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones
IN THEORY, PRIVATELY RUN PRISONS are simply another municipal resource that for-profit management companies like the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group believe can be run cheaper and more efficiently than in the hands of government agencies: a free market alternative to the bureaucratic red tape of waste and regulation in the world of penitentiary administration. But running a penitentiary is not the same as running a municipal sewage authority. Having a monetary value tied to human incarceration and justice creates a deeply perverse incentive that should not exist in the world of commerce. When the for-profit prison industry places the iron fist of criminal justice in the invisible hands of the market and sells it as a cost-cutting measure, it is hard not to interpret as anything but the predatory capitalism of a self-perpetuating slave state.
Most criticisms of privatizing prisons have come in the form of labor, management, and financial issues. This is an argument of numbers in which critics hope to show that the same cost-cutting measures that enable private prisons to be profitable are also to blame for subverting the security, accountability, and quality of life standards of those facilities. The promise of a more efficient penitentiary runs in stark contrast to various, well-publicized examples of private prisons accused of devolving into "gladiator schools" of violence and decay, run by fewer, inexperienced, undertrained, and underpaid staff who may not respond to such chaos responsibly. Cost overruns, sometimes well above what any state-run facility would charge, often eliminate any pretense of a financial benefit. Accusations of corruption, cronyism, and excessive CEO pay are commonplace.
One private prison has been accused of colluding with gang members to help manage inmates and save on staffing costs. Others have actively avoided housing sick inmates, leaving the higher medical care costs that those patients might incur to the state and federal penitentiaries. The legalization of interstate prisoner exchanges has only enabled this practice further. Private prisons can now cherry-pick low-cost, low-threat inmates, not just from other state-run prisons nearby, but also from across the country, to fill empty beds and maximize cell occupancy. Prisoners can be transferred to the state with the fewest regulations on prisoner treatment and facility standards.
Private prisons have also been able to profit off of their captive audience by overcharging on prison services such as interstate phone calls. Not just an overpriced luxury, phone access can be the sole source of communication between inmates and their family, friends, and legal representation, especially if they have been transferred far from the state that originally imprisoned them. The end result being that prisoners can find themselves out of contact with anybody who can advocate on their behalf, hindering the appeals process and giving them little recourse against abuse.
Still, numerous studies detailing the failings of private prisons have not stood in the way of their development, largely because there is such a desperate need for prison space in the United States. America's outsized prison population is the largest in the world, easily dwarfing that of various totalitarian regimes across the globe. The sheer quantity and percentage of those behind bars in America has grown exponentially ever since the initiation of the War on Drugs in the 1970s. The overcrowded conditions exacerbate violence on prisoners and staff alike. The prevalence of rape that has resulted, often dismissed in popular culture as an extension of justice served, is a horrible standard for any society.
In this way, private prisons, with their promise of quickly building and staffing new complexes, were proffered as the salvation for an overcrowded system. In the early 1980s, when private companies like CCA gave birth to the for-profit model in the US and began offering to handle temporary immigration detainment, their service came as a boon to the burdened states. If these nonviolent populations could be contracted out, then the overflow of drug offenders could be handled in the public system. But by entering into this Faustian agreement and creating another billion-dollar criminal justice empire based on profit, the states have enabled the ever-growing prison population to continue its expansion.
In the three decades since the birth of the first private prison in the United States, the incarcerated population has continued to grow, only compounded by stricter sentencing guidelines like "three strikes" rules and mandatory minimums for drug possession. Rather than questioning the meteoric rise of incarceration in a developed country, the prison industrial complex has become increasingly dependent on private markets to ease the burden of the oversized prison population.
Human rights groups have long called for drug decriminalization, immigration reform, and changes to sentencing guidelines to address overcrowding, but they are no longer debating with the public as to what defines cruel and unusual punishment. These groups are now arguing against a multi-billion-dollar criminal justice industry and lobby dominated by private prisons, lawyers, security construction companies, bail bondsmen, surveillance technology vendors, weapons manufacturers, and police, sheriff, and prison guard unions who see nothing wrong in using their largesse to broaden the definition of what constitutes a jailable offense.
Particularly with respect to drug and immigration law, private prison companies lobby on behalf of bills and donate to campaigns that support stricter sentencing guidelines and building more prisons. These companies also fund efforts with pro-corporate, quasi-lobbying groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to draft legislation that would result in locking up more people for minor offenses and misdemeanors.
Arizona's Senate Bill 1070, the "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act," may be the best example of this. Private prison companies heavily lobbied on behalf of the ALEC-drafted bill that would have allowed law enforcement to imprison anybody accused of illegal immigration simply because they were caught without paperwork. If fully enacted, it would have been a windfall to the immigration detention industry operated by private prison companies. Copycat bills using the same legal language have since been discovered in various other states.
CCA officials have callously admitted that their financial model "could be adversely affected by the relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices." This conflict of interest would seem criminal if it were chemical manufacturers trying to set standards on allowable pesticides in food products, but it seems downright diabolical when the lobbying concerns imprisoning American citizens. The only way that this for-profit perversion of justice is able to exist is because the criminal justice system takes advantage of groups with less ability to enact reforms, such as minority populations and the poor — especially in how the laws are enforced. A Human Rights Watch investigation detailed this racial discrepancy in prosecution, noting, "Ostensibly color-blind, the US drug war has been and continues to be waged overwhelmingly against black Americans."
With their growing influence, this heavily financed lobby has also been able to slowly erode restrictions on the use of prisoners as commercial employees. Prison labor has long been banned in various states from competing on the free market since it violates numerous labor laws and essentially amounts to a slave workforce who can be paid subminimum wages and have little recourse against harsh working conditions. The for-profit prison industry is determined to change that.
This profiteering might be defended as part and parcel of running an efficient penitentiary, but it's hard not to view it as a vicious cycle of exploitation; prisoners are used as cheap labor, sometimes against their will, obstructed from leaving in due time, and given worse treatment all to help fund a lobby that seeks to trap ever more into their galley. When the venture is not profitable enough, the inventory can be auctioned off to the lowest bidder like chattel, creating a kind of de facto system of legitimized slavery.
The more the prison system is privatized, the more such perverse incentives grow. While privatization advocates agitate for stricter sentencing guidelines that will advance profits, the private system opens up even more moral hazard on an individual level. When the prison is under the oversight of the local sheriff's office, like it is for Louisiana's parish system, local law enforcement can be paid by the city on a per-inmate basis. By opting to use private prisons that offer a lower per-inmate cost than the state-run facilities, the sheriff's office can then keep a larger portion of the per diem for themselves. Financing criminal justice this way essentially gives law enforcement a bounty on the heads of all those they capture. As a result, the incarceration rate for nonviolent and municipal offenses, like unpaid parking tickets, can make up a majority of the pretrial prison population. Policies like this have helped turn Louisiana into the prison capital of the world.
One of the more venal, blatant examples of the quid pro quo subversion of justice created by monetizing the criminal justice system is the recent "Cash for Kids" scandal in Pennsylvania. In that instance, two judges were paid by a representative of a privately run juvenile penitentiary to dole out excessively harsh sentences to teenagers independent of the accused's guilt.
Although the full extent to which the profit motive has influenced the judicial system is not known, the market valuation of a for-profit prison system may be the greater, looming threat. The commodification of prisoners — allowing them to be traded on the market as shares in private prison companies — corrupts all those invested in the enterprise. Decriminalization, immigration reform, and changes to sentencing guidelines increasingly go against the interests of all those who knowingly profit from investments in the criminal justice system. Once these investments are bundled, repackaged, and sold as financial instruments, the moral distance only increases.
Jail not only removes people of their freedom but also enters them into a world of depression and violence, leaving permanent marks on those who survive and disenfranchising the ones who are found guilty of felonies. Any enterprise that commonly affects people so drastically would usually not be considered profitable because of the inherent liability. A single incident of excessive abuse by a prison guard could lead to lawsuits and significant fines. The costs for insurance coverage of such an enterprise can be astronomical. In the parlance of the market, this is translated as "managing risk," which is one of the reasons private prisons tend to specialize in such nonviolent populations as juvenile offenders and detained immigrants. This leaves higher-cost offenders, those with histories of violence and health concerns, to state and federal penitentiaries who must foot the bill for higher guard-per-inmate ratios and more advanced security features to handle these types of offenders.
To deal with the growing concerns of violence, the prison industry has embraced the Supermax model in which solitary confinement and constant surveillance are applied to dissolve gang affiliations and separate out mentally unstable prisoners. Originally intended for the "worst of the worst," these disciplinary tools have only increased in popularity in the few decades since their origin.
The original model of this combination of surveillance and isolation was Eastern State Prison of Pennsylvania. The prison's design was based on Jeremy Bentham's philosophy of the panopticon, which posits that isolation and observation can foster introspection, giving jailers "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind." With only their thoughts and the feeling of being constantly watched, prisoners would realize the error of their ways and reform themselves.
Although temporarily solving issues of prisoner-on-prisoner and prisoner-on-staff violence, long-term solitary confinement is considered an incubator of psychosis. Over a lifetime it can lead to mental health issues associated with violence, paranoia, and suicide. The United Nations considers it torture. It also cuts off prisoners even further from potential legal recourse. Embracing isolation as an acceptable form of incarceration effectively negates the idea of prisoner rehabilitation.
Upon visiting Eastern State, the warden of New York's Auburn prison reflected that:
There is no doubt that uninterrupted solitude tends to […] harden the heart, and induce men to cultivate a spirit of revenge, or drive them to despair […] A degree of mental anguish and distress may be necessary to humble and reform the offender; but carry it too far, and he will become either a savage in his temper and feelings, or he will sink in despair.
Although most current Supermax facilities tend to be publicly managed, various private facilities now have Secure Housing Units (SHUs), which operate as a prison within a prison dedicated to the Supermax model of solitary confinement and surveillance.
The costs for construction of these newfound facilities and the advanced surveillance, automation, and architectural features they employ far exceed those of most medium-security prisons. This shift toward building more, highly advanced, and costly facilities that can hold fewer inmates per square foot might seem contradictory to the original cost-saving intentions of private prisons, but construction of new fortified complexes can be justified with the promise of a new criminal justice economy to small, rural towns in decline. Those future prospects can then be used to float bonds that pay for the up-front costs of construction. Going into multimillion-dollar debt to imprison an ever-growing portion of the American population may not be a devious part of the town charter, but, as the financial incentives increase and the moral distance grows, the more tempting these decisions become.
Then there are also the political incentives for building penitentiaries as instruments of gerrymandering. Even though they are ineligible to vote, some states count detainees in their census. Once a new prison is built, new representative districts can be drawn to include the disenfranchised prisoners. Using prison construction as a financial incentive and a political tool like this can end badly if sentencing reforms do get passed and crime rates drop statewide. If the predicted inmate population does not live up to speculation, towns can be left deep in debt, without the industry that they had hoped would be their financial salvation and with an empty, forbidding structure on the outskirts of town.
Yet, more municipalities may turn to incarceration as an investment opportunity in the wake of globalization and a dearth of domestic jobs. Each one will have to debate whether solving their financial plight will be worth entering their community into the culture of what Foucault termed the "carceral state," where security, policing, and surveillance are prevalent. By tying their financial survival to the prison industrial complex, municipalities will be ever more dependent on security and the increasingly militarized and unregulated industry that monopolizes it.
The continuing justification for all of this is that there is a violent aspect of society to be protected from; that we are all a thin blue line away from anarchy and chaos. But if this were truly the cause, then we would be defining criminality upward, especially for nonviolent offenses. Otherwise, we are merely enabling a life of violent recidivism for those unlucky enough to be tempted into victimless crimes from a place of poverty and whose existence is forever altered by their experiences in prison.
This trend exists independent of the privatization of prisons, but privatization only encourages the vicious cycle and opens up new opportunities for exploitation. The purported benefits of cost and efficiency from the free market are intended to solve a problem that never really existed. Costs of nationwide incarceration were only an issue because of an exploding prison population that did not exist 40 years ago and has nothing to do with improper management or corruption in publicly run prisons.
This monetization of the criminal justice system is nothing new. The convict leasing system of the Reconstruction-era South allowed prisoners to be rented out to private industries for labor projects. The conditions were deplorable and corruption was rampant. The system targeted African Americans, who often received unduly harsh sentences for misdemeanor crimes. Sheriffs sometimes earned bounties for each prisoner they delivered to the camps, and numerous deaths resulted from the use of "whipping bosses" to keep prisoners in line. The system was highly profitable, and it wasn't until the late 1920s that convict leasing was eventually phased out in most states after high profile incidents shined a light on the incorrigible practice.
The State of New York in the 19th century also ran their prisons on a "fee system" in which independent prison operators charged on a per-inmate basis. Eric Schlosser, in his 1998 analysis of the prison industrial complex, noted that:
Under the fee system local sheriffs charged inmates for their stay in jail. A 1902 report by the Correctional Association of New York harshly criticized this system, warning that judges might be inclined to "sentence a man to jail where he may be a source of revenue to a friendly sheriff." Whenever the fee system was abolished in a New York county, the inmate population dropped — by as much as half.
Up until the 19th century, most of the prisons in London were also privately run. Independent "gaolers" would purchase the right to run a prison at their whim. The whole enterprise was profit-driven and horrendously corrupt. Conditions in the privately run prisons, like that of the infamous Newgate prison, were horrid. Author Henry Fielding considered it "a prototype of hell" and lamented how the per-diem prison system enabled the basest savagery of the human condition.
Anything from food and bedding to removing irons or leaving the jail at the end of a sentence required payment. Prisoners were forced into slave labor activities, like pushing a concrete tread wheel to grind corn, to help pay for the most basic of amenities. The whole system was ripe for abuse by the gaolers who coordinated with underpaid police officers and court justices. These justices, often referred to as "trading justices" because of their penchant for bribery, sometimes had fixed menus of how much they charged for an indictment, independent of the accused's guilt.
Police could concoct false charges, foment disputes among the poor, and create accusations of prostitution and impropriety out of thin air as a way to send as many people to prison as possible. Some were simply thrown in prison on suspicion of a crime and not released for months while pending trial. Many of those subject to such exploitation were simply guilty of indebtedness at a time when debtors' prisons were still commonplace.
Eventually, the contracted prison keepers of London were limited in what they could do and charge. A report presented to Parliament on the practice of billing on a per-prisoner basis stated that:
Such an income, frequently ill paid, to a humane gaoler, leaves him also too much open to the imputation of harshness, whilst it gives to a harsh gaoler a power of oppression.
The parallels with current day prison privatization are quite striking. The simple difference being that the economies of the poor have changed. Whereas the London gaolers took advantage of the poor and lower class, the current American system is directed at minority populations. The perverse incentive that offers those in power to take advantage of the disenfranchised still exists, yet it now thrives under the false pretense of efficiency.
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Taking its cue from the WHO s anti-tobacco treaty, the TPD would effectively ban electronic nicotine delivery devices ENDS, more commonly known as e-cigarettes by deeming them medicinals and restricting their nicotine levels to an ineffectively low standard. Alternatively, they could be approved as therapeutic drugs by going through large-scale and long-term clinical trials, which allows us to contemplate a control group forced to keep on smoking deadly addictive cigarettes. Neither of these options would allow the millions of smokers who have switched to e-cigs to continue to have ready access to them, which would likely propel them back to the real thing.
Several vapers groups (e-cigarette users call themselves vapers, not smokers, of course) have organized a mass demonstration next Wednesday, July 10th, to let the MEPs know their strong discontent with this measure, and to petition for its removal from the TPD.
ACSH s Dr. Gilbert Ross is on board with this movement: It completely eludes me as to why all the official and governmental agencies and NGOs are standing in the way of smokers trying to quit, and often succeeding, via e-cigarettes. Now perhaps those who feel their means of escape from the siren song of cigarettes is being threatened by bureaucrats and regulators for no reason related to public health are taking it to the streets. We ve seen many such demonstrations against safe and useful products, chemicals, etc, roused by activist agenda-based groups. This on the other hand is an issue which needs to be addressed, and we here at ACSH are pleased to see this instance of democracy in action hopefully having an impact where it counts.


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