This diary will be the first in a series of reports on the modern prison system, based on my 17 year experience within a state prison system.
This is not really a very sexy issue. It is not of current interest in the way that impeachment, the firing of attorneys, or who the front runners are – but rather of ongoing interest, more of a background on Modern Corrections. In the ‘civilized’ US, the Greatest Superpower on Earth, our incarceration rate is about 500 per 100,000, or 0.5% of the population, which is actually a slowing of the trend over the past 5 or 6 years. Still, that is a lot of locked up people.
This series of diaries is not an apology for the prison system, but written from the point of view of prison staff, and how they deal with the inmates – and what it might be like to be an inmate.
So, how does it work? Take the jump.
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