I agree with you but if you noticed, I said there is help but it's considered self-help when they have to reach out and take that egg. I know there are jobs but they have to want to work. They can work only if they get their GED...again, they have to want to help themselves. If they want college courses, they have to do the work to get the materials to pay for them...again, I consider all of that self-help. I have seen very few prisons who reach out to help the inmates. I'm not complaining about it but it just is what it is. My friend wanted to work so he got his GED, he worked himself up to a position of trust, he didn't get involved with all of the politics, he didn't get into trouble so he was placed in the honor wing, and he is self educated by reading all of the time. That is good and I hope AB decides to go in a similar direction.
As for the thorazine, I've often suspected the boarding schools in Missouri to resort to that type of control. I didn't know they used it in the prisons but nothing really surprises me any more. I've been slightly jaded to the realities of human depravity. I've seen it from both sides of the fence. I have no doubt that you are like me in that way. I can only imagine what you've been exposed to in that environment. Did you say you are still a CO?