Not surprising. We imprison more of our own citizens than any other nation in the world. We passed Russia around 2003. I recall hearing a lecture on the topic by a sociologist citing that we imprison 25% of all the prisoners in the developed world, the highest percentage of any one nation.
"A witness told state police investigating the stabbing death of a corrections officer at a Jessup prison that corrupt guards involved in contraband smuggling "ordered the hit" on Officer David McGuinn, according to papers filed in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court."
Not surprising. We imprison more of our own citizens than any other nation in the world. We passed Russia around 2003. I recall hearing a lecture on the topic by a sociologist citing that we imprison 25% of all the prisoners in the developed world, the highest percentage of any one nation.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet prison sentences for real criminals are still often half-assed.
ReplyDeleteThis is not good:
ReplyDelete"A witness told state police investigating the stabbing death of a corrections officer at a Jessup prison that corrupt guards involved in contraband smuggling "ordered the hit" on Officer David McGuinn, according to papers filed in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court."
I saw this story too, and it is more than a little frightening.
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