[drpix]

Get real!

Most prison officials (including guards) comes from the surrounding area. One of the reasons prisons are located in those remote areas is because the local labor force will work for your meager "gubmint paychecks". But, living in those areas, "honorable men" would not walk away and let the prisoners free to ravish the countryside - let alone the nonviolent prisoners this article cries for? All people who live near those prisons bet their lives that those prison officials will "sit tight" despite their grievances.

[headsonpikes]

Yeah, 'ravishing the countryside' would no doubt be the result. /sarc.

The system is ill-designed and dysfunctional - wringing our hands is not really a dignified option. The Government is manufacturing a lumpenproletariat in order to make their 'protective' functions seemingly more essential.

You're either with the people or the state terrorists.