http://www.bloggernews.net/12043 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:46:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/12043#comment-811383 Sayjack Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:44:15 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/12043#comment-811383 Those Correctional Officers do not represent the majority of Correctional Officers at work in our nation's prisons and jails. As far as the inmate being humiliated, well, I find that hard to believe since they did not make the inmate do anything he didn't want todo. The inmate is a person and capable of making his own decisions. Of coarse this is when I have to hear the normal, "But inmates don't have the authority to say yes or no," spiel. If inmates didn't have authority in one way or another, then how did prison administrators find out about the incident? The fact is, inmates do have some form of authority in prison or jail, even if it is informal due to them out numbering the staff by so much. Those Correctional Officers do not represent the majority of Correctional Officers at work in our nation’s prisons and jails. As far as the inmate being humiliated, well, I find that hard to believe since they did not make the inmate do anything he didn’t want todo. The inmate is a person and capable of making his own decisions. Of coarse this is when I have to hear the normal, “But inmates don’t have the authority to say yes or no,” spiel. If inmates didn’t have authority in one way or another, then how did prison administrators find out about the incident? The fact is, inmates do have some form of authority in prison or jail, even if it is informal due to them out numbering the staff by so much.

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