A parolee from the prison in Quincy, Florida, killed a man he met at random within hours of release. A guard there that I worked out with told me that the parolee was on a list telling the guards to never, under any circumstances, turn their back on this man. If they did, they would be assaulted.
I asked why he was released and the guard told me, he’d served his time. The judge in the case knew all about the man, but gave him a very light sentence for the crime that got him arrested. (You can be sure there were lots of similar events before the former prisoner was finally prosecuted.) The prosecutor had made a good case for a longer sentence, but the judge decided otherwise.
The guard told me that some people are so dangerous that no one is ever safe from them.
> The guard told me that some people are so dangerous that no one is ever safe from them. <
The noted firearms expert Massad Ayoob once talked about this. Ayoob said that such people should be thought of as wolves. And wolves are always going to do what wolves do. Always. No amount of retraining will help.
So what do you do? You don’t bother trying to tame the wolves. Instead you make every effort to keep them far away from the sheep.
The judge should be held criminally culpable.