Disturbing Video: Prison Guards Laugh as Mentally Ill Man Dies in Front of Them

[UglyGreed]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/10/18/guards-laugh-ill-man-dies/

I watched the whole video, I'm speechless.

[ladjf]

1. Hello human race. Not so glad to have met you. nt

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. You paint with too broad a brush. This is not on the human race.

This is on the Colorado Department of Corrections and the broader carceral culture we love some much here in the land of the free.

[ladjf]

6. You don't mind if I decide which brush to use do you? nt

[rwheeler31]

2. I could not watch the video.

The article indicates some of the guards are being punished, I know we desperately need prison reform.

[JonLP24]

9. Badly

Basically incoming prisons are forced to adopt a culture of self-segregation (one prison described it as unacceptable to sit at the "black table" for lunch but sharing a needle with one is a different story) and an overall logic which I call "prison logic". One thing that is common if you come across as a pushover when tested early then it opens you up to bullying(protection is commonly sold under the economic system), taken advantage of, etc, and won't stop until you literally fight back. It doesn't matter so much logically if you are right or wrong--you could Mother Theresa, you're only right if you can do something about it. You may notice of it isn't right that guy ripped off that guy but if they do it to someone perceived as a pushover -- don't matter because he's a "bitch".

This is much less of an issue at the 3 or 4 yards (higher security) but still present even the overall incarceration culture. For example if you're white in your first day in the county jail in bigger cities you may be invited to a "wood meeting" but rather told you need to be there.

Basically we send people through this than what do we expect when they come back? A lot of them will adept the mind-set of don't do people wrong unless they're pushovers so who are targeting but sometimes not escalating situations or handling a ripoff as a "now I know that about him/her, cut them out of my life" is wrongly perceived to what they call a "bitch" which is the worst thing to be in their eyes before snitches, child molesters, and cops.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. This is our America.

[UglyGreed]

13. Isn't it just grand? N/T

[KingCharlemagne]

4. Two reference pieces to help understand:

Stanley Milgram's pioneering work at Yale U.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

Philip Zimbardo's remarkable expriment at Stanford U.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

Mix in a cup-full of Abu Ghraib, stir in a dash of Guantanamo. And don't forget a pinch of Jon Burge of the Chicago P.D.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Burge

[UglyGreed]

11. I am

familiar with both and I'm glad you included them in this thread.

[democrank]

7. What in the name of hell have we become?

Rest in peace, Mr. Lopez.

[UglyGreed]

12. I don't know N/T

[PeoViejo]

8. Could have been saved with a bag of chips from the Commissary

or a bottle of Sports Drink.

[UglyGreed]

10. Instead they

laugh and discuss Walmart

[Dawson Leery]

14. Oink, Oink, Oink.

The filthy uniform in all it's "glory".

[davidn3600]

15. American people want prison to be punishment, not rehabilitation

This is a very stupid country in a lot of ways.

[Comrade Grumpy]

16. We are most definitely a punisher society.

There's a reason we lead the world in both actual prisoners and incarceration rates.

Even progressives suffer punishment lust. You see it in this forum all the time.