A Wake Up Call

Canada's discriminatory prison system.

You take

The easy way out

In using segregation

With us.

As if

We are

Agent provocateur

Bringing trouble

Into the prison system

By existing.

And yet

You don't isolate

All white extremist

Like you do

With transgender prisoners.

Who are

Far more disruptive

To other prisoners

And guards

Alike.

In using

Your institutional transphobia

To justify your actions

Of protecting us

From abusive prisoners

And guards.

HELLO

Inmates get raped

Everyday

By other inmates.

Whether or not

They're CIS

Or trans.

Knowing

Segregation is

One of the ways

To break a prisoner's

Will to resist.

Never mind

Many trans-prisoners

Have mental problems

Which worsen

Under your tender care.

Time for change

Is now.

Realizing

You can't place

The Djin back

Into the bottle.

No matter

How long

You ignore this.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/transgender-inmate-placed-in-female-section-of-ottawa-jail-1.2553372

Reviews

[ANTO]

This is a powerful protest piece Therisa to the powers that be and an admirable highlighting of injustice for the reader too. You have to wonder what goes through the minds of the policy makers in these places and their puppet masters. Truly shocking - thanks for your truth revealing writing here.

[therisa]

Thank you, Anto. Sadly, change will only come, grudgingly, by those, in power. Have they reform the "Maze", yet?

[ANTO]

The Maze has been demolished - it stands waiting on a verdict for total demolition or part of it to be made into a conflict resolution centre for world visitors. It is quite the political bone here because the hospital wing where Bobby Sands passed away is there and the Protestant community wants to demolish it lest it becomes a shrine to Bobby and his comrades.

Segregation was fought for by the dissident (New IRA) in the big prison Maghaberry - using dirty protest (smearing excrement on the walls) - and they got it.

[therisa]

I think, a total demolishing of the Maze is the right and proper thing to do, with a big plague, honouring Bobby Sands and the other prisoners, will gave their lives, for the chance of peace. Just my opinion.

As for the New IRA, those wankers can live, in their own filth.