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eauty shimmering on the fields. Nibs sits waiting in the car for me. He waves as I walk toward him to fly away from this piece of hell, from Thony Lee Green. If it wasn’t for the captain Oh, Lord, and shaggy hounds I’d be with my woman, yeah before the sun goes down They come up here skippin’ and a jumpin’ Oh, Lard, they won’t last long gonna wish they was a baby boy In their mother’s arms. Angola Bound now Angola Bound Angola Bound now Angola Bound 2 Hospitality to the Imprisoned ˜ 163 Tantamount to Torture, by Murphy Davis J a n u a r y 1 9 9 3 The long days and endless nights of prison life piled up on her shoulders like a dead weight. The noise seemed never to stop, and a minute of privacy was an almost impossible pleasure. Memories of the endless terror of her life and now the separation from her three small children pulled at her in the meaningless, idle hours that stacked themselves like a brick wall around her. Suicide— once only a fleeting thought that she could chase like a cat out the kitchen door—settled in and took the shape of a reasonable option. “Oh” said the psychiatrist. And nothing more. She was led from his office and down the hall. The guards pulled mechanically at her clothes until they lay in a crumpled heap around her and she shrank in her nakedness. The cold metal of handcuffs snapped her arms behind her back. Shackles gathered her ankles and, metal to metal, the chain connected and snapped behind her. Then came the football helmet. “This way, you see, you can’t bang you head. ... We don’t want you to hurt yourself. ...” 2. The song “Angola Bound” is from Warm Your Heart, A&M Records (© 1991, Aaron Neville and Charles Neville, Irving Music, Inc. [BMI]). Used by permission.
164 ˜ A Work of Hospitality, 1982–2002 The heavy metal door slammed behind them, and her mental health treatment began. Only mealtime broke the cold concrete and steel isolation. The tray arrived. One time the guard unlocked her handcuffs long enough for her to eat. The next time the tray was simply left on the floor. If she wanted to eat she did it by shoving her face into the food, gobbling like a dog and salting it with her tears. Then it stopped. How many days and nights Who knows God knows, there was no sun, moon, or stars—only a fluorescent sky. But she was better, they declared. Back down the hall she shuffled. Back to the dormitory with forty-nine other women. And this time if she had any thoughts plodding through her numbed brain she kept them to herself. Since last spring the news has trickled out of the Georgia women’s prison: sometimes one allegation at a time; sometimes a flood. It has been a seemingly endless horror story of sexual assault of prisoners by prison staff, coerced abortion, forced prostitution, and mental health “treatment” tantamount to torture. The light is shining on these allegations, thanks to a suit filed against the women’s prison by Georgia Legal Services in 1984. The allegations over the past year have kicked the suit into high gear. I often quote Dan Berrigan, who said years ago that trying to tell people about prisons is like trying to hand them a bag of snakes. Nobody wants the bag, and we’ll do anything to avoid it. But this time the snakes are in our face. The well-concealed world of the prison system is being exposed and we have to look, like it or not. The silent screams and muffled suffering of captive women have come uninvited into our living rooms, and it’s time to hear what they are saying. As of late 1992, well over one hundred women in the Georgia prison system have come forward to tell of the treatment they have received. Most of these incidents have been at the Georgia Women’s Correctional Institution at Hardwick, but other reports are already coming from the just-opened women’s prison in Washington, Georgia. Acknowledged, even by prison staff, is that a large majority of the women who go to prison in Georgia arrive in need of serious counseling for the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse they have already received. It would be bad enough to realize that the prison system does not give, and never has provided, this needed help. It is nearly incomprehensible that large numbers of women instead have received added abuse of every kind and description. We are hearing from hundreds of women prisoners that large numbers of women have been raped by prison staff; that prison employees have offered special favors and even favorable parole recommendations in exchange for sexual contact; that mental health “treatment” has regularly included stripping, hog-tying, chaining, and isolation of mentally ill and suicidal prisoners; that drug and prostitution rings have been operated to the benefit of prison staff. On one occasion we hear that, when the warden learned that a prisoner had been impregnated by a staff mem-
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