Our carceral system works by using the worst people — Chauvin, Dahmer, and other outliers — to induce us to accept and even applaud inhuman conditions involving assault, rape, grotesque neglect, and deliberate abuse. It’s not a strategy that would work on a healthy or decent society.
“Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.”
Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been stabbed by another inmate at a federal prison in Arizona where he's serving time for the murder of George Floyd.
Conversely, who can say how many people Chauvin and his ilk condemned to such a fate that get no attention?
This is 100 percent true but at the same time extremely rip Bozo
See, also, Jeffrey Epstein's death. We as a society largely ignored—and continue to ignore—how our carceral system is plagued with suicides, far more than our peer countries.
Truth Sucks tho that we have to hear about the plight of prison conditions with this fuckin guy or about the rights of indicted people with trump cases.
When have we ever been a decent and humane society to non-prisoners, those charged with a crime or those who are poor, mentally ill or just in need if help? We don't care about non-offenders so offenders are really screwed.
I also notice that little attention is paid to the horrendous state of our prisons until it happens to someone the media already reported on.
Candidly, incidents like this make me struggle – mightily – between my ex-defense lawyer impulse that prisons shouldn't be this way, and my ex-Republican impulse that some people need killing
A lot of people believe in karmic justice more than they're willing to admit, the difference mainly seems to be where they draw the line. I don't have sympathy for the man, but it's hard not to notice some leftists repeating outright conservative rhetoric about "bad guys deserving it".
Popular replies to the OP are deeply unsettling.
I keep thinking that if our prisions were safe and blandly pleasant, both bad cops and child molesters would be tried and convicted at a higher rate. Getting dangerous people away from society needs to be more important than punishment or vengeance.