#3 The Help

Skeeter became a great attribute to get to know what the maids are feeling and how it is wrong to treat them with disrespect . Skeeter collected stories  from other maids to learn about the households they worked in. Since Skeeter lost her relationship with Constantine she was interested to find what happened to her and why they lost connection. Many of the mades she interviewed were not welcoming to Skeeter because she was an owner of a maid. They judged her for having one because it is a slap in the face towards them and they do not trust her. The help did not have the full trust with Skeeter because she was white and had a maid and the diffidence was clear that they were not suttle between each other. Trust began to grow once a young man stepped into the picture and then the maids decided to share their stories. there were 12 mades telling there life story with a young white women who once was an owner of a maid, it was risky.Each maid shared similarities between one another because they had to live in fear for most of their life since any day could be their last. One wrong move and they could be abused or left behind.  The dissidence between black and white was very strong and horrible.  

#2 The Help

Reading The Help gave me a new view on race because I was never able to learn the inside of how the maids feel. I highly recommend this book because I have learned so much about the environment of a housewife between a maid. The relationship is not only strange between the maids and housewives, but also between the children and maids. The maids are left at the house to do all the cleaning, cooking, and take care of the children. The maids are very close with the children and have a much stronger bond between one another. An example of this relationship is a child named Skeeter and Constantine the maid. Constantine began raising Skeeter when she was young and they became like mother and daughter the older and older Skeeter got. Skeeter went to college in the 1960s and then realized her relationship with Constantine was greater than the one with her mother. Skeeter wrote with Constantine more than her own mother, but once she was off after college she lost contact with her Constantine. Skeeter thought Constantine left and was starting to help a new family, but she wanted to know how she felt raising Skeeter. Skeeter put together a book of interviews from all the maids and began researching and realizing what the maids really thought of their work.Skeeter began to realize that her mother was not as important than Constantine, which has happened to many families. I think this is very upsetting because the value of a mother daughter relationship is extremely important, but maids are becoming the main care taker.

#1 The Help

I read The help by Kathryn Stockett which is about racism that took place during the present area.It tells the story about the treatment of blacks and how they were discriminated for the color of their skin. Being a different race was brought up a lot between the housewives in that town because they did not know whether their colored maids should use the bathrooms that were in the house.Many made their "help"  use the bathroom outside in the back of the house as if they were animals. One of the helpers named Minny had attitude towards the woman she worked for. Minny was never treated with respect or even as a person who had a voice in the house she was only there for helping around the house. Minny told her story through the way she thought people acted towards her. It was interesting because Minny was uneducated and effected the book because the perspective was one I would never expect. As I was learning about Minny's thoughts and as I was able to understand the treatment of her employers I learned a lot about help in a household. Minny was looking for a job she was recommended to work for a lady who just moved in. Her name was Celia and she did not know the way that most women treated their maids in the town, since she had never had one. Minny arrives to Celia's and she is offered something to drink and to relax and sit down. Minny was in shock when she heard that because she was never treated with respect. I was in shock to read how disrespectful the relationship is between a maid and housewife. Minnny shows Celia how the other women in the town treat blacks.

Video of Torture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jUfK5i_lQs&feature=player_embedded

#6Prisoner with Mental Illness Lock in Solitary Filth in Private Jail

http://solitarywatch.com/2011/04/21/prisoner-with-mental-illness-lives-in-solitary-filth-in-private-jail/

Prisoners of solitary confinement are on strict lock down during the times they are in cell blocks and on warnings. Even though they are unable to do most activities and have communication with anyone they still need to be fed,showered, and  daily exercise/ sunlight. It is inhuman to have a human in a dark cell block for months on end even if the prisoner does not want to move. Being in solitary confinement does not mean they have the right to choose to sit in the cell block because if they were in a normal regulated prison cell they would still be forced to shower and not ignored. The guards began to ignore Frank Horton at a privately run Nashville jail where he was denied health care, no showering, exercise, or leave his cell for nine months.Frank had been convicted on drug charges and was arrested and hailed on a nonviolent parole violation. His papers showed a history of mental illness including probable schizophrenia. He was put in solitary confinement after a fight with his inmate after his inmate said Frank was "hearing voices" and thought people were "trying to kill him". After time in solitary confinement Frank refused to leave his cell and the guards did not mind it. The guards would, "...go to Frank’s door, look in on Frank, Fran, you all right?…But, you know, at that point, I think as long as Frank moved, they kept moving; as long as he was living and breathing in that cell, they kept moving." For 9 months Frank struggled with his mental state and could not remain stable. The guards were unable to give him the attention and care he needed. He was let to suffer until  CCA employee Patrick Perry blew the whistle on his employer by reporting Horton’s conditions to the Metro Nashville Health Department, records show. Perry, according to the documents, was fired the same day. It sad to know only one man was willing to stick up for Frank and to know when a human being is being tortured by a mental illness that is eating them alive. The fact the Perry was fired is horrible because what he did was the right thing. Franks family continues to fight for him and his mental illness.

#5 Report Documents Abuse in Pennsylvania Prison's Lockdown Unit

http://solitarywatch.com/2011/04/26/report-documents-abuse-in-pennsylvania-prisons-lockdown-unit/#comment-2027

Solitary Confinement is forced upon prisoners who have done wrong and have disobeyed orders while in prison. Solitary Confinement was meant for those who need a harsher punishment to behave while in prison. It was not meant for those who have made minor mistakes because Solitary Confinement is a horrifying place. If an inmate is told they will be put in solitary confinement  the prisoner can file a grievance which can over turn the solitary confinement order. Filing a grievance seems as if the prisoners have a chance to tell their side of the story but according to Department of Correction records, "97.89 percent of the 43,853 grievances filed by prisoners [in 2008] were rejected for various reasons." This data shows that most prisoners are not taken seriously and that the guards have complete control over every situation even if they are lying. The guards are able to threaten the prisoners when they have done something minor, but the truth of these situations will never come out because  filing a grievance means nothing in the prisons since the system will ignore the situation.Prisoners who file grievances, which is protesting their living conditions and filing complaints results in the guards retaliating. "The HRC report provides several examples, including withholding food, water, showers, and mattresses as well as forced cell extractions and the use of pepper spray and restraint chairs. It calls retaliation the lynchpin holding together the culture of terror in the solitary units at Huntingdon, as it involves the targeted application of violence and the deprivation of basic necessities with the deliberate intent of silencing protest, public exposure, and legal action." Prisoners should not be treated as if they are animals even if they have misbehaved. Guards do not have the rights to threton the prisoners after filing a grievance. The grievance should be read and taken in account for the conditions at the prion, but it does not seem to be happening instead the prisoners are being torture even more.

#4

http://solitarywatch.com/2010/12/17/the-brutality-of-supermax-confinement/