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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Mar 21, 2017 - 11:40am PT
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Congrats for the recognition of fighting the good fight.
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Jim Herson
climber
Emerald Hills, CA
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Mar 21, 2017 - 03:17pm PT
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Chris,
Your dad rocks! That's so inspiring. A life very well lived. And you seem to be following in his rather large footsteps.
But for all his achievements, none come close to having the mental fortitude to watch his 16 year old son take his 13 year son up Zodiac! You owe your parents a cold beer for that one.
-Jim
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cornel
climber
Lake Tahoe, Nevada
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Mar 29, 2017 - 12:43pm PT
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Awesome Chris, your dad is a Real difference maker...
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Mar 29, 2017 - 03:36pm PT
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Awesome work. Respect to your dad!
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splitter
Trad climber
HighwayToHell
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Mar 29, 2017 - 04:43pm PT
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Most of us, early on in the newsroom, were lifers," Lindsey continues. "You are a castoff, just a prisoner, you have no meaning. To Steve, each one of us had great value. And he demonstrated concern for us." The Golden Rule in action. Respect, indeed!
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labrat
Trad climber
Erik O. Auburn, CA
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Mar 29, 2017 - 06:29pm PT
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Wow! Your dad is doing great things. Thank you for posting up!
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Fathead 235
Trad climber
Petaluma
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Mar 29, 2017 - 11:48pm PT
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Wow! Great story Chris! San Quentin is a prominent feature in the landscape of my daily commute. It sits ominously out there on the point as if it were shiprock or the leaning tower, or sentinel. Tomorrow i'll think about your dad and the people he's working with. I wonder what peak will come to mind.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Denver CO
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May 10, 2017 - 03:12pm PT
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In Colorado we have the ADX 'supermax' prison with 500 cells, each with one inmate locked down 23 hours a day. Most have long sentences and many of them crack up after a few years in solitary. Plus every prisoner I have met so far (about 5-6 in the ADX) has been on one or more psychiatric drugs, from sedatives to anti depressants to haldol (a mental straight jacket for schizophrenics), so it's a really sad place with everyone locked down by themselves all the time and tranquilized into a stupor. This summer I will go to trial with a somewhat new legal theory, that solitary confinement violates the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and association. (I also tried to undo the $3.7 million class action settlement but as you can see that part wasn't successful)
I've had clients in prisons across the US and once in a while I will meet people like your dad, who feel so sorry for the prisoners they start their own charities. I had a client in prison in Bolivia, a woman went there every week to deliver food. Also knew more than one person who was pen pals with many inmates. It's very fulfilling, in small doses.
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
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May 12, 2017 - 11:46am PT
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Don Paul:
Send me your PO address and I will send you a complimentary copy of my book, "Murder Unpunished."
Only caveat: you must promise to at least read Chapter 1 - 3 pages long - and can then decide if it's worth your while to continue reading.
Sending this message on forum since the PM email at ST has a poor track record.
Same offer to any other ST member.
TWP
P.S.
Send your requests to my P. email:
t w p r i c e 3 at googlemail
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Denver CO
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Jun 30, 2017 - 07:39pm PT
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TW Price I'm sorry I did not get back to you, I'd be glad to take a look at your book. My address is PO Box 46213, Denver CO 80201.
My solitary confinement case is supposed to go to trial in 2 weeks. My client has been in solitary confinement for 8 years already. Here are some of the legal arguments in the case, which could apply to any "supermax" prisoner:
Isolation in the ADX differs from disciplinary segregation in the totality of the isolation, the duration, the reasons for which its imposed, and the technological sophistication.
Supermax prisons such as the ADX house prisoners in virtual isolation, eating all their meals in their cells, with typically only one hour per day allowed outside of the cell, and typically no group or social activity of any kind is permitted.
When prisoners in the ADX are escorted outside of their cells, they are typically placed in hand and leg restraints and are not allowed to be in the presence of other people without being in restraints.
Prisoners in the ADX are under constant surveillance and have few opportunities to have normal conversations with other people. Conversations with prison staff are scripted and controlled by the prison staff, and do not substitute for normal human interaction.
Prisoners are placed in the ADX not for what they have done, but on the basis of what someone in authority has judged them to be. (ie. dangerous, or a threat of some kind).
Unlike disciplinary segregation, the ADX houses prisoners as part of a long term strategy of correctional management and control, rather than punishment for specific disciplinary infractions.
The environment of the ADX is not therapeutic. Group therapy is conducted on caged inmates, with each inmate in a separate, but nearby cage. In his deposition, Dr. Wachtel described the group therapy he witnessed on his ADX tour as “horrifying.”
The harmful psychological consequences of solitary and supermax confinement are well documented. Case studies have found a range of psychological symptoms occurring in prisoners in supermax units, including appetite and sleep disturbances, anxiety, panic, rage, loss of control, paranoia, hallucinations, and self-mutilations.
Solitary confinement subjects prisoners to unparalleled levels of enforced idleness, and social and material deprivation.
The deprivation of social contact can undermine social identity and destabilize a person’s sense of self.
Depriving people of social contact for long periods of time denies them the opportunity to “affiliate” with others. The importance of affiliation in reducing anxiety in the face of uncertain or fear-arousing stimuli is long established in social psychological literature.
The use of extreme forms of solitary confinement in so-called brainwashing and torture underscores its painful, damag
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