I could've called this one. As absurd as it sounds, inmates have a "code" where they inflict the most pain on those who have harmed children.
I know this.
That wasn't part of my statement/question.
Murders are "allowed" or "accepted" or shrugged off all the time in prison because the guy deserved it or was a REAL scumbag or to make the guards' lives easier or whatever. Look, I'm NOT saying these people don't deserve it...but they were NOT sentenced to die. They were sentenced to whatever time in jail they were given. The guards are there to PREVENT stuff like this.
I know the guards aren't supermen. They're understaffed, WAY underpaid and often working multiple jobs, so this reflects more on the poor resources alloted to our prison system. But still, this IS just tolerated because the guy "deserved it"...well, I'm sorry, but he didn't get that sentence, and when you're in the place where supposedly our law is executed (No pun intended), you'd think we'd be able to hold it up a little better. The automatic assumption is that a kid toucher is dead in jail because of what they are. I'm not arguing what they deserve...just that if you're not sentenced to death, well, it IS part of the system's "job" to keep you alive, and in general this does not seem to be the case.
Yes, one more scumbag is dead. But his death just helps breed an atmosphere were NOBODY is rehabilitated in ANY way, and HIS murdered could easily just end up back on the street. Is anyone really better off?
I'm telling you, we gotta tighten these things up. Too much free time in prison. There should be meals, work programs, brief exercise period and that's IT. The rest of the time is spent in the cell. No TV. No computers. None of that. Of course, that brings you to the problem of overcrowded prisons, which brings you to why these prisons are mostly overcrowded: unfair and over-reactionary drug laws. It's just one big, ugly, stupid cycle that nobody seems willing to change or fix at ANY level.
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