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After the first inmate murder there is no consequence for further murder, you're there for the rest of your life anyway. It doesn't matter if you kill one or twenty cellmates.
For the prison this is probably a boon because their overcrowding problem is "solving itself".
It's disgusting that we treat humans like this. A reasonable person can understand perspectives on both sides of many contemporary hot topics, but I see no such leeway here. Isn't it time we stand up and simply fix something which is so clearly broken?
How we should treat the "animal" that kill people then?
We can't tolerate or condone antisocial behavior, but it is a mistake to feel safe in the thought "we" are better than "them."
We are they, they are we.
The point of solitary confinement is to protect inmates from attacking each other. Putting two attackers into one cell makes the problem even worse. After the first inmate murder there is no consequence for further murder, you're there for the rest of your life anyway. It doesn't matter if you kill one or twenty cellmates. For the prison this is probably a boon because their overcrowding problem is "solving itself".
I would also hope a commercial prison would be fined if inmates die while in its care.
Yes, some of these people have done unspeakable things, but they are being punished already. Does society itself need to continue to do unspeakable things to those convicted? Honestly, I thought we were beyond that, but I guess not. Is it any wonder that we accept torture of foreigners now when we've always accepted torture of citizens?
I don't think there's an easy answer. From a systemic perspective we are locked into a socio-political ratchet. It is far easier to argue for harsher treatment for "criminals", with zero political downside, than to argue the opposite. As long as prison seems to be something that happens to other people: darker, poorer, less educated, there is an empathic gap that exists that makes it hard for the average schmo just trying to get by with his 60 hours a week of work to care very much.
I can only hope that someday we'll look back on the fact that the United States had the second highest incarceration rate in the entire world as an absolute black mark, right up there with slavery and genocide, or colonialism.
Mass Incarceration is truly one of those things I can't think too much about or I just feel an unrelenting hopelessness and rage. It seems absolutely diabolical to me that in the United States we have simply taken away the humanity of so many people (with absolutely egregious racial and class disparities) in the name of keeping "us" "safer". Not only is it an absolute failure from a moral perspective, it doesn't work…
I don't understand why our society thinks its ok to treat people this way just because they've been convicted of a crime. Being removed from society and put in jail IS the punishment. Why does society suddenly see these people as no longer human, trash that can be dealt with any way, packed like sardines, left helpless to be raped and murdered? Yes, some of these people have done unspeakable things, but they are bein…
The point of solitary confinement is to protect inmates from attacking each other. Putting two attackers into one cell makes the problem even worse. After the first inmate murder there is no consequence for further murder, you're there for the rest of your life anyway. It doesn't matter if you kill one or twenty cellmates. For the prison this is probably a boon because their overcrowding problem is "solving itself".
The point of solitary confinement is to punish troublemaking prisoners.
But the US doesn't give a fuck about law, justice, or the Constitution.
The people should stop giving a fuck about their corrupt government. These problems will not be solved politically or non violently.