Hi Kelly!
Thank you for posting my guest blog on your site. Your topic
of “Prison Reform” is a new subject to me, so I’m interested in learning more.
I’m not ready to jump on a bandwagon anytime soon, but I can see evidence that
the system drastically needs to be changed. I’m also ignorant on what arguments
are currently happening and what progress is being done, so I’ll stay tuned to
your website and learn as I go.
This is a real exciting time for me because I just finished
my second manuscript just this week! We have tentatively titled the book “D.B. Tuber” Armored Car Heist: A True Story
of Football, Addiction and Robbery. The story is of Anthony Curcio who was
a pure athlete that became an addict (from injury) and a high-profile criminal
to support his habit, but he overcame his demons to win back his family and
wants to give back to his community. It's a roller coaster that exposes the
prescription pill problem that affects us all. The book is due May 2013.
Anthony gets out of prison this coming April and has a 20/20
interview waiting for him stemming from an article that was published about him
in October, 2010 in GQ Magazine, and were rushing to get the book in the stores
before the interview.
D.B. Tuber does deal
with the prison system and how my subject not only found himself at the bottom
of the Hole (SHU), but it also includes details on how he was psychologically
and physically abused in prison.
Now, I’m not one to
blame the system. In fact, in my limited history of prisons I can easily see
both sides of the argument like they are understaffed, there are way too many
prisoners, that the War on Drugs has caused big-time overcrowding and the fact
that they actually might be doing their best at running the prisons, but I also
see that the prisons aren’t run efficiently and effectively, there is little
reform and little counseling.
There are vindictive acts of malicious violence and torture
that still go on behind closed doors. But, then again, these prisons house the
worst people of our communities, and it probably sucks to have to be the one to
punish these offenders.
I am thankful these people
are off the streets and I can’t see a violent world with them as my neighbor,
so I’m thankful for the prisons and what they do. I just know that there needs
to be more oversight and personal responsibility in the administrative rolls of
these prisons just as there are rules that govern retirement facilities – an
administrator of a retirement facility is personally responsible for the
well-being of their patients and can go to jail if they are abused, so the same
rules should apply to prisons as well.
Violence may be the only way to communicate to some of these
prisoners, but we don’t need to stoop to that level, ever. I especially don’t
need to pay taxes to people who promote violence against prisoners even if they
“have it coming”. This is why I need to understand more about the current rules
that govern prisons before I can take a side, and now I hear that prisons are
privately held. When did this happen? Apparently I’ve had my face into my new
manuscript for too long and need to “pull my head out”!
I also am the author of Wanted:
Gentleman Bank Robber: The True Story of Leslie Ibsen Rogge, One of the FBI’s
Most Elusive Criminals. I’m pretty new to writing books compared,
especially compared to the authors on this blog tour, but I love my new job. Wanted was published in 2010 and here is
a brief description:
Leslie Ibsen
Rogge, number seven on the FBI’s most wanted, robbed more than 30 banks without
firing a shot. In Wanted: Gentleman Bank
Robber, Les details his adventures from Alaska to Antigua, the Chesapeake
to Cancun. But it all came to a halt when a fourteen-year-old in Guatemala
found Les on the new FBI web site forcing him to surrender and becoming the 1st
Top Ten criminal caught due to the internet. Few felons have been as
forthcoming about their successes, failures, robbery techniques, passion for
sailing vessels... and love for his wife.
The book isn’t exactly murder. In fact it’s the opposite of
murder since he didn’t hurt anyone intentionally. Les used a gun in his 30+
bank robberies, so technically they were violent crimes. He did end up getting
65 years on four convictions, so he’s doing time in the FCI Beaumont in Texas
in medium security. He’s serving the time of murderers though.
The film rights for Wanted
are currently being optioned by a producer, so this is real exciting. We also
created a really cool video book trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDxB76yccZY.
Thanks and thank you to Kelly for hosting this True Crime Blog
Tour, and please comment if you have questions about me or my books. I’ll be
monitoring this post on Sunday, July 29th, 2012. Be well!
PS - Don’t forget to stop by Goodreads and enter to win a
copy of my first book Wanted: Gentleman Bank Robber
– http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/enter_choose_address/26038-wanted-gentleman-bank-robber-the-true-story-of-leslie-ibsen-rogge-one.
The drawing ends on July 31st!
Dane Batty
Nish Publishing Company
Thanks Kelly!
ReplyDeleteYour welcome. While its true the prisons house some of the worst people in the world Id dare to say that they also hold some of the best. people get in trouble and pay for it. They are still humans and if we are to say we are a civilized race of intelligent people we have to fight against the inhumane treatment of ALL people. Even the worst.
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