[upchuck]

Prayers for the killed and injured.

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

“All prison staff and responding law enforcement officers were reported safe after the incident...”

That in itself is a miracle!

[rktman]

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.

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Related, from The State

[fwdude]

This was only facilitated by the left's insistence on lax treatment of prisoners in these detention facilities, in the name of "human rights." As a result, inmates largely run the show.

Bring back the idea of INCARCERATION - punishment by loss of freedom.

[wita]

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.

[libertylover]

Gang on gang fighting I’d guess.

[hanamizu]

Lee Correctional Institution

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Obviously, the problems occurred because of the racist name of the prison.

[bassmaner]

There was a time where inmates were segregated by race/ethnicity.

Then the ACLU sued.

Here's the result.

Thanks, American Communist Lawyer's Union.

[Conan the Librarian]

The SC Dept of Corrections tried to recruit me to work in one of their prisons back when I was in Library school. I didn’t want to have anything to do with them.

So, I came home, and, found a job in the Georgia Dept of Corrections. It wasn’t in a maxi-max prison, and, for the most part, a good experience.

But, I am glad I got out of that job.

[Hot Tabasco]

I can’t imagine being in an environment like that where monsters are doing life and have nothing to lose by killing you.........

[Oatka]

My brother was an auto insurance adjuster in the ‘80s and had to visit a sheriff’s substation in South Carolina to check out the vehicle.

At one point he had to enter the “office”, and there sat some tough-looking youths giving him the Hard Eye. He became immensely interested in his lap top.

When he was leaving, he mentioned to one of the deputies that they had some hard cases in that room. The deputy laughed and said that they were headed for a tough prison and by nightfall they’d be passed around for a pack of cigarettes or a candy bar.

My brother thought that had to be one Helluva tough prison.