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Posted on 04/16/2018 6:03:20 AM PDT by upchuck
Multiple fights at one of South Carolina's most dangerous prisons left at least seven inmates dead and 17 others injured, a prison official said Monday.
Lee Correctional Institution was secured at around 2:55 a.m., nearly eight hours after multiple fights broke out in three housing units Sunday night, prison spokesman Jeff Taillon said. The incident started around 7:15 p.m., he said.
All prison staff and responding law enforcement officers were reported safe after the incident, the South Carolina Department of Corrections wrote. The department added that the State Law Enforcement Division was assisting prison officials in its investigation.
Emergency services from several South Carolina counties responded to the “mass casualty incident,” Lee County Fire wrote in a tweet. Several local media outlets reported the local coroner was called to the scene.
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“All prison staff and responding law enforcement officers were reported safe after the incident...”
That in itself is a miracle!
Hmmm. “Dangerous” prison? I guess as opposed to club fed prisons? Don’t know, don’t want to go. I know or have known some guys who did time. Yeah, I don’t want to go.
Turf battle
I wonder which gangs were involved?
More than you know. Prison staff are not in charge, if truth be known.
Most likely not in some places. I’d never want the job, that’s for sure!
In case you're pining for the days of old:
Bring back the idea of INCARCERATION - punishment by loss of freedom.
Just last night watched a PBS special on housing dangerous inmates in solitary confinement and the idea that solitary is not the fix for dangerous inmates it was thought to be.
Referencing this thread, there were a lot of dangerous types in the General population and when the inmates take over we all know what the results will be.
I have no idea what the solution might be to replace the prison system housing people dangerous to the general public, much less providing protection for the general prison population. You just can’t trust crooks, thieves, murderers, criminals of all kinds to give a darn. Bad enough trusting those who at least attempt to live up to a standard.
Gang on gang fighting I’d guess.
“A nite in the box will help you get your mind right!”
Since prisons are by law not allowed to administer that level of punishment (cruel and unusual), it falls to other inmates to do the job.
Thus, you get "the guards are not in control." Without the one, you get the other. At least for inmates of the most incorrigible sort.
Lee Correctional Institution
Put them in a cage in shark infested waters. Open the doors from time to time. Make them fend for themselves.
Put them in a cage in shark infested waters. Open the doors from time to time. Make them fend for themselves.
Some inmates simply can’t or won’t follow the rules. They get send to secure housing units within prisons.
They’re too dangerous to be allowed around other inmates and correctional officers should have minimal contact with them.
Prison doesn’t really reform people. Its not really a deterrent to crime and people stamped with the scarlett letter of “felon” - its nearly impossible for them to make it in the outside world.
That’s true for people not convicted of crimes against other people.
Then the ACLU sued.
Here's the result.
Thanks, American Communist Lawyer's Union.
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