{"id":278,"date":"2016-11-17T21:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T21:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/?p=278"},"modified":"2016-11-17T21:05:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T21:05:18","slug":"the-tier-program-is-being-used-to-break-us-mentally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/17\/the-tier-program-is-being-used-to-break-us-mentally\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;tier&#8221; program is being used to break us mentally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 90% of black inmates released off the tier program into the society either start a life of crime and be in and out of jail, return to prison, do nothing productive with their lives or get killed.<\/p>\n<p>Why is that when this supposed to be a &#8220;therapeutic&#8221; program designed to rehabilitate and change our way of thinking?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll tell you why because the &#8220;tier&#8221; program is being used to break us mentally so they can control us.<\/p>\n<p>We being stripped of all rights and forced to endure degrading inhuman conditions.<\/p>\n<p>And people wonder why Georgia recidivism rate is so high.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s because prisoners not being allowed to pursue an education get trades or job enhancing skills so our brother&#8217;s getting out the same way they came in or worser.<\/p>\n<p>You keep a man locked in a two-man sell 24 hours a day for years<br \/>\nforcing us to accept the small amounts of food put on trays<br \/>\nforcing us to smell another man feces<br \/>\nforcing us to live in inclement conditions<br \/>\nforcing us to endure weather so hot if you move you sweat.<\/p>\n<p>How can you help rehabilitate a person in this type atmosphere? They not trying to. That&#8217;s the plan to either break us mentally or force us into withdrawal or depression where we lash out aggressively.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing positive come from this program. Look at how many prisoners have turned to mental health to try &amp; relieve the mental pain being administered by prison officials oppressive program.<\/p>\n<p>By: Jarvis Booker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 90% of black inmates released off the tier program into the society either start a life of crime and be in and out of jail, return to prison, do nothing productive with their lives or get killed. Why is that when this supposed to be a &#8220;therapeutic&#8221; program designed to rehabilitate and change our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/17\/the-tier-program-is-being-used-to-break-us-mentally\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#8220;tier&#8221; program is being used to break us mentally<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14,4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-from-prisoners","category-prison-conditions","category-tier-program","category-valdosta-state-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}