Correctional officers can do anything they want to prisoners—beat them to death if they want—and the most they will face is being forced to resign.
We really are moving quickly toward being a police state, in which there’s no absolutely no defense against police or correctional officers, who are allowed to do anything they.
Recall this story, blogged a few days ago? Well, here’s the decision: the three men who viciously beat an inmate for no reason but their own entertainment will simply be allowed to resign. That’s it.
The republic is crumbling about us. We really are starting to move to be a police state, with law enforcement having absolute immunity.