THE FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM HAS BEEN SABOTAGED FROM WITHIN, turning trained psychologists into GLOVED ENFORCERS and ABANDONING the mentally ill to a living hell. A Marshall Project investigation reveals a SHOCKING betrayal: over a third of psychologist posts are EMPTY, and those remaining are being FORCED to act as guards in a BLATANT violation of policy and human decency. This isn’t about emergencies—it’s a SYSTEMATIC collapse ordered from the top.
“Augmentation is the abuse of that system,” blasted a former top bureau psychologist. Prisoners are now HANDCUFFED by the very professionals sworn to treat their trauma. “It makes us feel like we have nobody to talk to,” confessed a transgender inmate, exposing a system where THERAPISTS HAVE BECOME THE JAILERS. This diabolical staffing crisis, fueled by brutal budget cuts and the ELIMINATION of union protections, is creating TINDERBOX facilities primed for violence and suicide.
Internal data confirms the nightmare: dozens of prisons have HALF the psychologists needed; over ten have ONE or NONE. This calculated starvation of mental health services has already been linked to AVOIDABLE DEATHS. The government’s own watchdog tied psychologist understaffing directly to inmate suicides. Yet the Bureau of Prisons brazenly defends the practice, blaming a “budget crisis” while psychologists WALK AWAY in horror, calling their work “unethical.”
This is more than a failure; it is a DELIBERATE POLICY OF CRUELTY. The core mission of rehabilitation has been MURDERED, replaced by a brutal warehouse logic where the most vulnerable are left to rot. The healing profession has been weaponized against the broken, proving that within these walls, there is no hope—only the cold, mechanized logic of the state.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
