'A team of agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington D.C., will begin an investigation today of a shootout Wednesday that left two people dead and one seriously injured at the Federal Correctional Institution.
"They will start first thing in the morning," said Michael Folmar, the FBI's special agent in charge in Jacksonville. "And they're the ones that are going to piece all of this together and put all the facts together."
The agents traveling to Tallahassee are part of the FBI's Shooting Incident Review Team.
At 7:42 a.m. Wednesday, shots rang out at the prison after agents with the FBI and the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General arrived to arrest six correctional officers. The officers were indicted Tuesday on multiple charges. The allegations against them include giving contraband to inmates in exchange for sex and intimidating inmates in an effort to cover up the scandal.'
And here's AOL's version, which is where I got the title from.
I hardly know where to begin. I'll just say that this type of extreme, deep-seated, corruption-at-all-costs bullshit speaks very well to my oft-ranted point - that being that just because someone's in prison, we oughtn't think of them as human refuse.
It's well past time that we did something about the AWFUL, fucked-up conditions in American prisons.
Until we decide that people should be sentenced to so many years of ass-rapes and Oz-style beat-downs, we should continue to treat incarcerated people like... people.
Again, this is in OUR best-interests for plenty of reasons, among them is the fact that many of these folks will be released, one day. It seems, to me, that we ought to be giving them reasons, not just to stay out of prison, but to think of this world as something other than a kill-or-be-killed concrete jungle.
This shit goes so deep and it pisses me off, so much, that I can't even post properly about it.
Feel free to comment. Maybe I'll have more to say, later.
EDIT: So, it's later.
Listen, if what I hear is true, then these prisoners couldn't legally give consent. Maybe it's not as simple as Law & Order makes it out to be, but if it IS, then this is automatically a rape scandal.
That's one of the reasons I was so bothered by this. Even if you think it's only "technically" rape, the fact remains that people in a very position of power and authority over these women chose to take advantage of that relative imbalance.
I also feel like that shoot-out demonstrates the depths to which at least one of these people would sink in order to maintain the status quo or avoid having to take responsibility for their actions.
In other words, if they'd kill, even when they're cornered in a federal prison by federal agents, then they'd probably do a helluva lot of things to the unarmed, powerless, incarcerated women after whom they lusted.
What if one or more of these women got pregnant? What kind of fucked-up things would these guards do to protect their secrets?
Disgusting.
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