My name is Sean Allen Davidson and I am writing this intro for the site from a California prison with more than three months remaining on my sentence. If you are reading this then it means that I made it out, the site is up and plans to help a whole lot of people are moving forward. Who am I trying to help? Everyone. The legal system that I have experienced is failing everyone, hurting millions and helping no one to the extent that I would have assumed prior to my own arrest, conviction, imprisonment and damnation. The question isn't if or when we should debunk, overhaul and repossess our wayward criminal justice system, but rather how soon and sufficiently can we get it done. Prison Ref's goal is to help answer this question.

Sometimes we have to go backwards before we can move forward. This certainly applies to the overwhelming need and obligation that we have as a society to refuse, refine, refocus, reform and referee our severely debauched and adverse criminal justice system. On the one hand we need law enforcement to uphold the law in our best collective interest, and on the other hand we need to be protected from their abuse of the plenary power they possess over us individually. Repositioning law enforcement to better fulfill their oaths to protect, serve and lead us ethically will not be a straightforward endeavor for many who have for so long been empowered and protected at the heart of the problem.

There is no greater permitable safe haven for sociopaths to do their immoral and sadistic bidding than the criminal justice system. Those of us who dissatisfy legal statutes, often without prior knowledge of those statutes or any criminal history, are instantaneously enslaved, tortured psychologically and fully immersed in subhuman conditioning. Behind the potent guise of justice, public safety, correction and rehabilitation we are systematically being abducted, branded, defamed, dehumanized, humiliated, violated, brutalized, desensitized, oppressed, exploited and arranged for failure. We are captured, caged, herded and broken like animals. We are warehoused for monetary profit without privacy or consideration for our safety. We labor without compensation. We are buried alive in America's police stations, jails, court houses and prisons without truth, integrity, justification, information, communication, expression, representation, leadership, redemption, closure, positive opportunity, incentive, compassion, empathy, mercy, forgiveness, hope or human dignity.

There is no longer any distinguishable merit or purpose separating the good guys and the bad guys with respect to the law. Often the only difference between cops and convicts are a relatively stable environment, a constructive influence and foreknowledge of the law. For either side of the fences to not identify and empathize with the other is inhuman and represents the root of the problem. No one is born wanting to be a bad apple, whichever side of the fences it falls on. Most criminal activity begins with simply wanting to be accepted by others. Likewise, jaded members of this archaic, foul and bartered legal system didn't set out to kidnap, torture, brainwash and traffic their fellow mankind but were left unfettered to be seduced by its job security, power, acceptance and public distinction. Understanding then the similarities between us and accepting that much of life's circumstances are beyond our control, it is the preexisting systems and attitudes that remain to be remedied.