"Zvakaitika kwatiri kwaive kuzununguswa kwakaitwa matsotsi akapfeka yunifomu yemapurisa nenguo dzevatongi, kwete nekuda kwekururamisira, asi kuchengetedza zvivakwa zvevagari kuseri kwenzvimbo inopenya yeLas Vegas nemadhora akadonhedzwa kubva muvagari vayo vanotambura."
“Mwero webudiriro munzanga,” akanyora kudaro munyori wamanovhero wokuRussia Fyodor Dostoevsky, “unogona kuongororwa nokupinda mumatorongo ayo.” Semunhu anogara achishanya kuNevada mumakore achangopfuura, ndagara ndichishamiswa nekusiyana kwetsika uye hupfumi hwemweya hunogona kuwanikwa muLas Vegas. Kunyange zvakadaro, ndinofunga kuti Dostoyevsky akanga akarurama. Ongororo yakanyatsojeka yedhigirii rebudiriro muLas Vegas uye kunharaunda yakafara iyo guta rinoti i "The Entertainment Capital" inogona kuitwa nekupinda mumasero eClark County Correctional Center pane kuenda kumusoro kwenzvimbo. Stratosphere, kufambisa Strip kana kunyange nekutora muCirque du Soleil show.
Ini ndaive mumwe wemakumi maviri nevashanu akasungwa neLas Vegas Metropolitan Mapurisa kuCreech Air Force Base, nzvimbo yepakati pekuurayiwa kweDrone neUS Air Force neCIA mamaira makumi mana kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumadokero kweguta. March 31 uye April 1. "Shut Down Creech" kwaive kuungana kwevhiki kwevaratidziri kubva kutenderera nyika. Vazhinji vedu tinogara mumatende pane imwe nguva "Camp Justice" murenje mhiri kwenzira huru kubva pachigadziko, mazuva edu ekukurukurirana, kudzidza, rwiyo, kufungisisa uye kuronga zvakavakwa kusvika kune inoshamisa nhevedzano yezviito zvakarongeka, kusanganisira nhandare yemitambo uye mablockade. , izvo zvakakanganisa bhizinesi rinouraya semazuva ese eCreech. Kunyange zvazvo taitarisira kusungwa, ichi chakanga chisiri chido chedu kana kuti chinangwa chedu. Zvekare, mapurisa akasunga vanhu vasiri ivo sezvo aitsigira matsotsi ndokutora vaiita zvekumisa mhosva yaiitika mudhorobha kuti vaendeswe kubhuku.
Kubva 2009, ndakamboita dzimwe nzendo dzinenge mbiri kumapurisa kubva kuCreech kuenda kujeri redunhu kukero ine mukurumbira, 330 S Casino Center Blvd muLas Vegas, kuti ndiite basa rinonetesa rekubhuroka, kudhindisa zvigunwe, mugshots nezvimwe zvinonyadzisa zvisati zvaitika. kudzingwa padivi penzira maawa mashoma gare gare. Zvisinei, panguva ino, pashure pokunge shamwari dzangu neshamwari dzasunungurwa mumwe pashure pomumwe, ndakasara. Ndakachengetwa mutorongo kwamazuva mana akatevera, kwete nokuda kworutivi rwangu mukuratidzira kwezuva racho, asi nokuda kwechibvumikiso chebhenji nemhaka yefaindi yemotokari isingabhadharwi.
Ndakanga ndasungwa gore rakanga rapfuura pane kumwe kuratidzira kuCreech uye ndikataura nezvemhosva yekukanganisa traffic uye ndakaburitswa nevamwe makumi matatu pavimbiso yedu yekudzokera kunotongwa. Vhiki dzakati gare gare, pomero pavagumi vedu dzakaderedzwa kusvika kumhaka yemotokari yo“mufambi anokumbira chokufambisa kana kuti bhizimisi munzira yomugwagwa” uye takaongororwa faindi ye$30 pasina nzira inooneka yokuramba mhaka. Kunyange zvazvo avo vakazoenda kunotongwa pamhosva dzavaipomerwa vakawanikwa vasina mhosva kana kuti mhosva dzavo dzaraswa, isu taive muchikwata chevahitchhikers takakundikana mukuedza kwedu kwakasiyana-siyana kuti nyaya dzedu dzitongwe. "Ndingakwikwidza sei tikiti iri?" Ndakabvunza mabharani paJustice (sic) Court muLas Vegas. “Haupikisane nazvo,” ndiyo yakanga iri mhinduro, “unoiripira.” MuLas Vegas, zviri nyore kubvuma mhosva yechisimba pane kukwikwidza tikiti remotokari.
Nekufamba kwenguva ndakawana kadhi rinopenya mutsamba rine mufananidzo weruvara rwemunhu ari kusungwa maoko nemotokari yechikwata cheMapurisa eMetropolitan, neyambiro yakangwara "Bhadhara Tikiti, Dzivisa Kudzvanya-iyo." Izvi mufananidzo, zvinogonawo kuva akawanikwa pawebhusaiti yedare, yakauya netyisidziro iyi: “Dare reJustice reLas Vegas Township richapa matsamba ekusungwa kwematikiti ese emumigwagwa asina kubhadharwa. Imwezve mari yewaranti yemadhora zana nemakumi mashanu uye muripo wekupedzisira wemadhora zana ichawedzerwa kumatikiti ese anoenda kune waranti. Pamusoro pemubhadharo wewaranti uye zvirango, matikiti ese asina kubhadharwa emumigwagwa anozoziviswa kumasangano enyika anorekodha zvikwereti. " Kuongororwa kwenyaya yangu pawebhusaiti yedare kwakaratidza kuti ndakanga ndabhadhariswa mari yewaranti yangu uye imwe “muripo wekuteerera,” sezviri pachena kubhadhara kuti account yangu iendeswe kusangano rinounganidza, zvichiita kuti bhiri rangu risvike pamadhora mazana matatu nemakumi mana nemasere.
Mafaindi aya ari kuramba achikwira uye kusakwanisa kuenda kumatare edzimhosva uye nhare dzakatanga kuuya kubva kusangano rekuunganidza zvakandisvota, asi chiratidzo chedambudziko rakakura rehurongwa. The Las Vegas Justice Court Mission Statement ("Chiratidzo cheLas Vegas Justice Court ndechekuwedzera mukana weKururamisira, kuitira kuti uwane chikamu chepamusoro chePublic Trust and Confidence") zvisinei, maitiro aya neaya akafanana nawo mumatare akatenderedza. nyika haisi pamutemo.
Kurume 16, 2016, “Anodiwa Shamwari” tsamba yakabva kuOffice for Access to Justice yeUnited States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, yakanyorerwa kumatare ehurumende neemunzvimbomo inotsinhira kuti: “Makore achangopfuura vanhu vakawanda vakanyanya kukoshesa kutevedzwa kwefaindi nemitero zvisiri pamutemo mune dzimwe nzvimbo munyika yose. - kazhinji neruremekedzo kune vanhu vanopomerwa mhosva, quasi-criminal odinance kutyorwa, kana kukanganisa kwevanhu. Kazhinji, matare haatongeri vanopomerwa mhosva yekuvharirwa mumatare aya; faindi dzemari ndiyo yakajairika. Zvakadaro kukuvadzwa kunokonzerwa nemaitiro asiri pamutemo munzvimbo idzi kunogona kuve kwakadzama. Vanhu vangatarisana nechikwereti chiri kuwedzera; chiso chakadzokororwa, kuvharirwa kusingakoshi nekuda kwekusabhadhara zvisinei nekusaunza njodzi kunharaunda; kurasikirwa nemabasa; ndokuva musungo munhambo dzourombo izvo zvingaita sezvisingabviri kutiza. Pamusoro pezvo, kunze kwekuve zvisiri pamutemo, zvekuti maitiro aya haana kuitirwa kugadzirisa kuchengetedzwa kweveruzhinji, asi kukwidza mari, anogona kukahadzika kusarerekera kwedare redzimhosva uye kubvisa kuvimbana pakati pehurumende dzenzvimbo nevanodzimiririra.
Tsamba iyi inotaura mutongo weDare Repamusorosoro wekuti nzira yakafanira uye mitemo yakaenzana yekudzivirira yeFourteenth Amendment inorambidza "kuranga munhu nekuda kwehurombo hwake" uye inosimbisazve kuti "kushandiswa kwezvisungo zvekusungwa senzira yekuunganidza chikwereti, pane kupindura kune kuchengetedzwa kweveruzhinji, zvinounza njodzi isingakodzeri yekuti kodzero dzevanhu dziri mubumbiro remitemo dzingatyorwa. Mawarandi haafanirwe kupihwa nekutadza kubhadhara pasina kupa chiziviso chakakwana kune anopomerwa mhosva, kutongwa uko kukwanisa kwemupomerwi kubhadhara kunoongororwa, uye kumwe kudzivirirwa kwemaitiro ekutanga. ... Kana vanhu vakasungwa vovharirwa pamagwaro aya, mhedzisiro yacho kunyimwa rusununguko zvisiri pamutemo.
Neimwe nzira, memo haina kusvika kuLas Vegas. Kunyange zviverengero zvisipo, mukati mekupera kwesvondo refu handisi ndega musungwa mujeri reClark County akavharirwa chete nekusabhadhara faindi pamhosva diki.
Mamiriro ezvinhu anosiririsa uye utsinye hwejeri iri hahusi kuwedzeredza uye hwakatonyanyisa sezvinoratidzwa neuriri mumakasino nemahotera eguta. Kwapera maawa anopfuura masere ndasungwa ndipo pandakazobudiswa mumaketani. Takanga takazara mukamuri rokumira chete, vanhu vaipfuura makumi mana muchitokisi chiduku maawa iwayo okutanga mumaketani.
Isati iri nguva refu pashure pokunge ndasvika, sezvo murindi akazarura suo kuti asvikire mumwezve musungwa, jaya duku zvikuru rakapinza nzira yaro kumberi ndokuedza nenzira yokupererwa nezano rose kutsanangura kuti rakanga richitambura denho yefunganyo uye raida mhepo. Asina kuteerera, gadhi akaedza kurovera gonhi kujaya iri rakabva rapinda musuwo. Murindi akabva abata jaya, akamukandira pasi paburiro uye kunyange maoko ake akanga akasungwa nengetani muchiuno chake uye akanga asingagoni kudzosera shure, vangangosvika vashanu varindi, vose vakakura kumupfuura, vose vaiva nemabvi avo pamuviri wake uye. vakanga vachimurova nezvibhakera. Ndakapedzisira kumuona chiso chake chakazara ropa uye aifambiswa nevhiri, maoko ake nezviziso zvemakumbo zvakasungwa necheni pacheya yekudzivirira. Uku ndiko kwaiva kuita kwevarindi vejeri kumaitiro evanhuwo zvavo kumamiriro ezvinhu akashata uye avo vairwara nechirwere chepfungwa kana kuti migumisiro yokurega vakabatwa noutsinye.
Semumwe mutambo webhodhi unoshamisa, isu vasungwa takatamiswa nenzira isingatsananguriki kubva muchitokisi kuenda kuchitokisi chakazara vanhu maawa ose. Dzimwe nguva musungwa aingosvika chete zita ravo risati rashevedzwa kuti vatamezve. Dzimwe nguva varindi vaienda muchitokisi nechitokisi vachishevedzera zita romumwe munhu wavakanga vakanganisa neimwe nzira. Vamwe vataigara navo muchitokisi vakaramba vachiti vakanga vatova nemazuva akawanda vari panzvimbo imwe chete vachityira kuti vakanga varasikawo. Varindiri vaigara vachipa “mashoko” aipokanidzana uye asiri iwo, akadai sepataienda kudare kana kuti kuendeswa kudzimba dzakafara uye dzakafaranuka dzepamusoro. Vamwe vavarindiri, vasingadzorwi nokushayiwa kwavo zvibvumikiso, vakanga vachigovera norupo zano rapamutemo kuavo vaigadzirira kuona mutongi. Ndakazoziva pave paya kuti shamwari dzangu dzaiva panze dzakatsauswawo nevashandi vejeri sezvavaiedza kundironda.
Ndakanga ndasvika kujeri kare kare Chishanu uye akachengetwa mumacells aya kusvika Muvhuro mangwanani pa 3 o'clock. Kudya kwanga kusingagutsi muhutano uye esthetically, asiwo, yaishandiswa sezvazvaive 3 AM, 9AM uye 3PM, yaisatomboratidza kufamba kwenguva mugomba iri risina mahwindo uye umo marambi aisadzima. Aya masero aisiyana-siyana mukukura uye muviri unoverenga maari zvakasiyana awa neawa. Pakanga pane mabhenji akamanikana kupoteredza madziro umo vashomanene vaigona kurara pasi ndokurara, asi vazhinjisa vedu takaita rombo rakanaka apo pakanga pane nzvimbo yakakwana yokutambanudza pasina gumbeze pauriri hunotonhora, hwakasviba hwekongiri. Musero rimwe nerimwe maiva nechimbuzi chakashama- chokushandisa bepa rechimbuzi, munhu aitofanira kuwana uye kumutsa musungwa akanga agovera mupumburu kuti ushandiswe sepiro. Mukati menguva pfupi pashure pousiku hwangu hwechitatu pakongiri, pakupedzisira ndakakwidzwa muimba yapamusoro, ndikapiwa hembe dzokuchinja negumbeze ndokuratidzirwa mubhedha mukamuri rokurara rakati zii uye rinenge rakachena revarume 80.
Kunenge kuma 10 mangwanani eMuvhuro, ndakasungwazve necheni ndokutungamirirwa nemumikoto yematanera uye marifiti kuenda kumatare edzimhosva. Takanga tiri makumi matatu muboka iroro, kwete munhu wose akanga akapfigirwa kupera kwevhiki nokuda kwemhosva dzisina kubhadharwa dzemotokari. Nyaya imwe neimwe yaitongwa nemutongi mumasekondi mashoma, pasina musungwa aibvumidzwa kutaura chero chinhu kunze kwekungozvisimbisa paya paakanzwa zita ravo richidanwa. Zvizhinji zvefaindi nemiripo yakawedzerwa yakatemerwa varume nevakadzi ava yakasvika zviuru zvezviuru zvemadhora. Zvichienderana nehurongwa husina kurongwa hwemadhora pazuva paanenge avharirwa, mutongi akaveura imwe mari yefaindi ndokuregedza vasungwa vakawanda vachityityidzira kuti kana yakasara ikasabhadharwa. mumazuva e30, mari yakawanda yaizowedzerwa, gwaro idzva rakabudiswa uye kutenderera kwaizodzokororwa.
Hapana nomumwe wedu mudare romumigwagwa mangwanani iwayo akanga abvumirwa “kutongwa uko kukwanisa kwomupomerwi kubhadhara kunoongororwa” zvaidiwa nomutemo usati watiisa mujeri. Vashoma vedu, kana varipo, vakawanikwa vaine mhosva nechero nzira yekutonga vasati vabhadhariswa faindi pakutanga. Kuunganidza zvikwereti, kwete kuva nemhaka kana kuti kusava nemhaka, kwakanga kuri itiro hanya bedzi ye“dare” iri. Zvakaitika mudare mangwanani iwayo zvaigona kunzi “criminal justice” pakuti zvatakaitirwa nedare imhosva. Zvakaitika kwatiri kwaive kuzununguswa kwakaitwa matsotsi akapfeka yunifomu yemapurisa nenguo dzevatongi, kwete nekuda kwekururamisira, asi kuchengetedza zvivakwa zvevagari kuseri kwenzvimbo inopenya yeLas Vegas nemadhora akasvinwa kubva muvagari vayo vanotambura.
Kuburikidza nechiitiko ichi, ndakasangana nevanhu vakawanda vanofarira, kunyanya varume vechidiki vatema nebrown. Vashoma vavo vakavharirwa nokuda kwemhosva dzinopomerwa, asi vakawanda vairatidzika kuva vakabatikana mukuunganidza kuunganidza kwakafanana neni. Kufona kwaiitwa kubva munharembozha dzaiva mumasero kwainyanya kukumbira hama neshamwari kuti vawane mari yekubhadhara faindi kana bhero yaizoita kuti vasunungurwe. Kutoti vakanga vakapfeka mabheji nemakiyi, pakanga pasina munhu wandakasangana naye kujeri reClark County wandaitya sengozi kwandiri kana kuti kuchengeteko yevoruzhinji.
Kana manomano eLas Vegas Justice Court asiri ehutongi, kana ma drones anodzorwa kubva kuCreech Air Force Base mamaira makumi mana kure nezvekudzivirira. Nekudzora kure uye kazhinji pasi peiyo shadiest yemirairo neCIA, vashandi vemauto kuCreech vari kuuraya vanofungidzirwa kuti vavengi kure nenhandare dzehondo, zvichibva pane zvisina kuvimbiswa mhosva kana "maitiro emaitiro," kazhinji vachipisa mhuri dzavo kana vatorwa zvisina rombo rakanaka. kuva pedyo. Hazvifanirwe kushamisa kuti hurumende inouraya vanofungidzirwa, dzimwe nguva kunyangwe vagari vayo, isina kutongwa kunzvimbo dziri kure ichaisawo mujeri vanhu vayo vanotambura kumba pasina kurongeka.
Pakati paavo vakamira neni mudare romumugwagwa mangwanani iwayo, chikwereti changu ndimene che$348 chakanga chiri chimwe chezviduku zvikurusa uye mutongi akakurumidza kunditongera kubatira nguva, achirangarira mazuva angu mana mutorongo kudzima faindi dzangu dzose nemitengo yakawedzerwa. Handina kana kubvumirwa kutsanangura kuti ndakanga ndisati ndambokumbira kutakurwa mumugwagwa pakutanga. Kunyange zvazvo mutongi akati ndakanga ndasununguka kuenda, hurumende yejeri yakatora mamwe maawa 12 kuti ndisunungurwe. Kwakanga kwapera 10:30 Muvhuro manheru ekuti ndakazodzoserwa hembe dzangu ndokutumira mugero wakareba unobva kujeri uchienda kumwenje wakajeka wedhorobha reLas Vegas, padivi penzira uye mukumbundirwa neshamwari dzakatendeka dzanga dzakandichengeta nguva yese kusungwa kwangu.
Ndakasiya jeri reClark County ndaneta uye ndichifara kubuda, asi ndichitenda, zvakare, nemutsa uye kutsungirira kwemoyo murefu kweavo vakagovana neni nzvimbo yavo yakaoma, yakaganhurirwa neni kwemazuva mashoma. Iropafadzo yakaoma asi inokosha kuti murungu uyu wezera repakati ashanyire nzvimbo dzakadaro dzine vamwe vanhu vakanaka vasina zvavanogona kuita kunze kwokugara.
Mutambo mumwe chete iwoyo uri kuitirwa mumajeri nemumatare eUnited States, nyika inosunga vanhu vayo vakawanda kupfuura chero ipi zvayo. Nekupfuura 95% yemhosva dzemhosva dzagadziriswa nekukumbira ruregerero pane kuenda kunotongwa, vapomeri vazhinji vanobatwa nemhosva uye vanogariswa kwemakore vasina zvakawanda munzira yekufanirwa kupfuura yandakapihwa netiketi rangu diki rekurovha. .
Hazvizivikanwe kana zvakaitika kwandiri muLas Vegas Justice Court muna Kubvumbi 4 yaive mhosva mune zvemutemo, asi zvakaitika ipapo zvakadzamisa kutenda kwangu kuti iyo inonzi hondo yehugandanga ingori imwe chete yehondo ine hutsinye. pavarombo nepavanhu vane ganda dema neshava pano pamusha pamwe nekunze kwenyika. Kutenda uku kunozonditungamira kudzokera kuCreech nemamwe mabhesi e drone, kunzvimbo dzakanangwa nemapfuti avo eGehena remoto pandinokwanisa uye, kana zvichidikanwa, kudzokera kuClark County Correctional Center.
Kutora pane izvi zvinongedzo, Voices for Creative Nonviolence iri kuronga "HAPANA Thomson Prison
De-Incarceration Walk," makiromita 150 kubva kuChicago kuenda kuThomson, Illinois, kubva May 28 kusvika June 11. Thomson ndipo apo hurumende yehurumende ichakurumidza kuzarura jeri idzva "super-max" rinotarisirwa kuchengetedza kusvika 1,900 vasungwa mumamiriro ezvinhu ega ayo ave ari oga. zvinoshorwa nenyika dzepasi rose sekushungurudza. Ndapota batana nesu kana muchikwanisa.
Brian Terrell anogara muIowa uye ari Co-coordinator weVoices for Creative Nonviolence. Mumakore achangopfuura akashanyira Afghanistan katatu uye akapedza mwedzi inodarika mitanhatu ari mutirongo nekuratidzira pazvigaro zve drone. Kuti uwane rumwe ruzivo email info@vcnv.org.
