by Bob Walsh
Sad but true. My old stomping ground, the Deuel Hotel (Deuel Vocational Institution, a state prison facility near Tracy, CA) is now investigating it's second suspicious inmate death (homicide) in the last three months.
The unfortunate fact of the matter is criminals are, as a group, unpleasant people. Yes, I know there are exceptions but mostly that's true. Much of that unpleasantness is expressed as violence, either reactive or proactive. Pretending otherwise is short sighted, stupid and unhelpful. All of the "treatment, not punishment" and "books, not bars" clowns in the world are not going to change that dynamic.
The prison system needs to deal with the reality they have, not the fantasy that liberals wish they had.
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