Sunday, February 05, 2006

Cellblock Shenanigans

Nearly 2,000 Inmates Riot in Calif. Jail CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) - Nearly 2,000 inmates rioted at a Southern California jail, throwing mattresses and banging heads against bunk beds, in an uproar that officials said stemmed from racial tensions. One inmate was killed. More than 100 inmates were wounded and 20 were hospitalized with serious...

Ah yes, the old banging-heads-against-bunk-beds riot. Did a stint as a prison guard while in the Marines. Without looking into this any further I can tell you exactly who the one's were that protested "racial tensions" by slamming their heads into things.

But what I still don't understand is why prison isn't the very essence of peace on earth. The citizens are unarmed, under total control and beholding to the government for virtually everything. In other words, the liberal version of heaven.

Yet prisons remain one of the most dangerous places on earth. Don't prisoners see how very wrong they are?

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