[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.

[Steely Tom]

Maximum security prisons are filled with men who simply will not follow any rules, unless those rules are backed up with the threat of severe physical injury or death. There are some who don't even fear severe injury. They are essentially violently insane, homicidal and suicidal.

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.

[aumrl]

Why can’t we take the idea of London’s mayor and ban knives in the prison?

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