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While I don't agree prisoners should be given everything they want in prison, I find this sheriff's methods inexcuseable in the extreme. For one, punishment has been proven time and time again to be no deterrent to crime whatsoever. If you don't believe me, go looking for studies. A great number of them have concluded the same: the system of harshly treating prisoners does nothing to prevent them from committing crimes.
Even if you could excuse his adding prisoners to chain gangs in ridiculously hot temperatures, there is no excuse for adding the innocent to the list. Arresting someone does not assume guilt. You are innocent until proven guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt. He has no right to make tenmporarily detained citizens work in his slave camps.
I do find it funny that he is trying to brainwash the prisoners with his own political agenda. Also, he seems willing to humiliate them by restricting their access to g-rated movies and the Disney channel. They are not children and should not be treated as such. There are no valuable lessons to be learned from kiddy movies and cartoons. I think he needs to examine whether he is trying to help society or just punish people he sees as beneath him.
As a final thought, studies have also been done showing that taking away recreation from prisoners makes them violent and unruly. I don't see any mention of that, except that the sheriff doesn't care if they die or not. Maybe he doesn't care about his officers either. The prisoners aren't going to restrict their violence to each other. His plan has too many flaws to be of any use. you can't approach crime with the attitude of fuck them all. I see it not only comes from the sheriff but some of the people on this board as well.
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