[ACC24066]

My friends who have done time say it is often some of the guards themselves who instigate much of the violence. They deliberately set up these ‘gladiator fights,’ as they call them, to break the will of new prisoners, to set up prisoners they believe to be ‘troublemakers,’ to get at prisoners who were convicted of certain crimes such as child molesting, or just for their own entertainment. Some of the guards are also just plain crooked and paid by the prison gangs to look the other way. Of course no one does anything about this because some would complain that to do so would be ‘getting soft on crime’. Most people just plain don’t care about people in prison except to give them even more time. Believe me, there is no shortage of guards. Look at how much money is being spent on prisons and prison building. Not every last guard is corrupt or brutal of course. But just like police on the outside, the good cover up for the bad out of a misguided ‘code of silence’. I’m certainly not letting the gangs off the hook for everything they do. But all the violence and drugs in prisons would be far less without the tacit consent or even eagerness of some of the worser guards to take part in it. It also will continue as long as most people on the ouside have a simple-minded ‘just lock ’em up and throw away the key’ attitude.

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