(September 29, 2015 at 11:35 am)Chad32 Wrote: Ironically you then have people complain that prison life is too good for the inmates.
Yes you have to take care of people if you're going to lock them up. That's part of the job description. I treat actual animals better than police treat prisoners.
Not all the guards are bad. I'd say about half are genuinely good people just trying to make a living and keep the place safe and running according to the rules (and even then, they'll let some of the crazier anti-inmate rules slide, since they know that the people who earn promotions in the system tend to be the fanatics, and those fanatics then write Official Policies that are often just plain ridiculous, like not playing D&D, for instance)... but believe me when I say that the other guards make up for the evil their good comrades fail to bring to work.
The gangs are an annoyance, as well but generally only if you appear weak or have a weak mind.
It really angers me when I see people writing OpEds or whatever about how we "treat inmates too well". Every so often, here in Missouri, someone will try to take away any petty "luxuries" the prisoners have, like the prison 13" TVs, but even the uber-conservative Secretary of Corrections will refuse to obey the order because he knows at least one of his guards would die if the order was carried out.
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