When prison guards are violent blame culture – not bad apples [TheGuardian.com]
T he guard-on-inmate violence that makes it to the news – an inmate in a wheelchair thrown down the stairs, women in Rikers who allege rampant sexual abuse – is just a fraction of the violence that happens in prisons daily. And it’s not just a few bad apples among a mostly do-gooder group: most prisons and jails foster violence because it is their main form of control. I’ve reported at several California prisons and heard stories of correctional officers who flood a...