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Aurion7 t1_ixgjw76 wrote

I'm more surprised they were arrested than I am surprised some guards would assault a prisoner.

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[deleted] t1_ixivija wrote

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IrishmanErrant t1_ixixc3v wrote

This seems like it places blame in exactly the wrong place.

It's a good thing that unjustified use of force won't be tolerated.

If your prison doesn't have enough staff, blame the owners and the administration. Don't blame the ethics; if it's a for-profit prison it's already by definition a completely unethical workplace

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IrishmanErrant t1_ixj1vnm wrote

If you work for a state-run and state-owned prison, then even more so we need to hold the administration and the civil servants in charge responsible.

That doesn't make it acceptable to beat prisoners; it means we have more legal authority over your bosses to make sure prisoners aren't mistreated AND to make sure you have enough coworkers to ensure that happens.

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cursedjayrock t1_ixj5jee wrote

Sounds like we might be sending too many people to jail/prison and should look into fixing the problems that are causing that. One thing that might help, is legalizing marajuana federally. No state should be able to make it illegal within their borders (of course age restrictions for purchase). That should reduce the staffing problem by reducing the people needing supervised. Maybe we can convert an old jail/prison that no longer needs to house prisoners into a place where the homeless population can go to be rehabilitated and sent back into society, further reducing arrests.

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cursedjayrock t1_ixj91sv wrote

True, but we could also reduce the stress on any given institution by reducing the amount of people being arrested for such crimes as marajuana possession. I agree that there are lots of people that are in institutions that have done awful things, hell my local Juvenile Hall is so full of violent offenders for gang related activity that they don’t even lock up children unless it’s really bad, but making meaningful changes like what I stated before would reduce the overall Guard:Inmate ratio throughout providing your facility with the necessary staffing, as other locations can spare excess guards. It wouldn’t be a quick process, but would serve to provide several positive outcomes.

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Darkmortal10 t1_ixpd7i6 wrote

>administration has made it very clear that unjustified uses of force are not tolerated and they will hang you out to dry

Get back to me when they arrest the people who literally cooked an inmate to death in a shower. Prison guards use unnecessary, unjustifiable uses of force constantly.

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