This is hardly a surprise. Black on black homicides are suppressed, participation in gang violence and drug deals gone bad are suppressed, street drugs are less available, health care is always available including wellness checks, a balanced diet is provided, and the beds are so uncomfortable that a prisoner gets a full day’s quota of exercise at night, just flopping around seeking a position that doesn’t cause pain.The prisons could do a better job of suppressing causes of needless death than they do, because gangs, drugs, and violence still pervade prisons, just at lower levels than on the street, but this could be done only at a considerably higher cost for more, and better trained, prison staff and by construction of less sieve-like prisons.xanthian.
xanthian almost 13 years ago
This is hardly a surprise. Black on black homicides are suppressed, participation in gang violence and drug deals gone bad are suppressed, street drugs are less available, health care is always available including wellness checks, a balanced diet is provided, and the beds are so uncomfortable that a prisoner gets a full day’s quota of exercise at night, just flopping around seeking a position that doesn’t cause pain.The prisons could do a better job of suppressing causes of needless death than they do, because gangs, drugs, and violence still pervade prisons, just at lower levels than on the street, but this could be done only at a considerably higher cost for more, and better trained, prison staff and by construction of less sieve-like prisons.xanthian.