Spinning the block or "spinning" is to drive around the block waiting for oppositional gang members to shoot to come outside. Basically, not really going anywhere. The inmates are complaining because an intern for psych services came through to address inmate concerns and when they asked for counseling services they were told they needed to address that with their assigned provider, but no one, including the intern, tells them who that is. She even recommends they ask the social worker. One inmate claims to have already done that and was referred back to psych services. The inmates say that they are "spinning" us. Sending us around the block to distract and delay.
How to NOT provide service? Tell people they need to see someone else or that they are on a list. I submit to the worlds collective knowledge, that term spinstitution. Like that customer service department that takes forever to answer and then asks a ton of irrelevant questions. Or the online help that is a logic flow of irrelevant questions to your issues? Spinning your wheels. No actual progress. Like in the movie Fight Club where he explains that insurance rejects the first claim because a percentage of people won't submit another claim. Like a prison hearing where the hearing officer upholds the absurd claim by the staff member and the appeal to the warden or superintendent gets no meaningful consideration and forces the complaint to go through the protracted efforts thereafter. It's all just a big distraction and delay. To exhaust your efforts on not making progress. A huge portion of my appeal will be the prosecution requesting extensions of time from the circuit court. A big game of delaying the truth to cover up their wrongdoing. We know it. We saw it. It's wrong. What happens after a bogus trial is that the wrongs are then compounded exponentially, for years. Legal access here is on hour, twice a week. You have to sign up to review the case "discovery" material separately. That can happen for one hour per week. I don't get to look at discovery and look for applicable cases. Even if I chose a single book to read about how to write a motion or legal writing, at an hour per session, could take months to go through. There isn't even a realistic possibility to learn what to do without outside help. Why are typewriters and typewriter supplies available on commissary catalogues? Yah. Because however they can minimize the availability of adequate resources is the strategy. A game of keep away. Pickle? Monkey in the middle? All of these things insulate the detectives, prosecutors, and judges from wrongdoing. It insulates the prisons, staff members, and jails as well. The integrity of the system is only measured by its ability to be honestly held accountable. Otherwise it is just as dishonest as the criminals it contains. Whether it is something completely withheld, or allowed in such minimal standard as to effectuate a deprivation, it is all essentially the same thing. There is no responsibility to prevent the harm of a wrongful arrest, detainment, or conviction. There should be. Some sort of immediate accommodation? Instead? Hold music. Spinning. Does anyone remember the Tim Burton movie Beetlejuice, with Michael Keeton (sp?) Beetlejuice is sitting next to the headshrinker in the waiting room for hell? In certain translations of the Bible, Thou shall not lie is actually Thou shall not bear false witness. A lie is defined as the intent to deceive. If a prosecutor presents a witness whose testimony is not and could not be true, is he then too guilty of bearing false witness just like the person who provided the fictitious testimony? We have laws for Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods. We have no requirement for police, prosecutors, or judges to be honest. Their only obligation is accord to their own moral fiber which is equivocal to the standards of whatever criminal, or even non-criminal, willing to lie under oath. When the prosecution knows their testimony could not be true, then why should they not be responsible for their actions. Especially where qualified immunity is to protect from honest mistakes and not intentional deception and the integrity of court proceedings is supposed to rely on the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, then a lying prosecution betrays the interest of the court and is no longer acting in its interests but operating in their own personal interests over the court. A traitor to the court? A traitor to public interest as well. Law enforcement, prosecutors, and judges alike should all be required to at least be honest.
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