Federal inmate dies in altercation with another prisoner

at my age, i think i'm as grown up as i can be.

pharmaceutical companies develop, produce and sell drugs that were tested, and warnings adhered to the use of them.

meth and weed producers (the illegal weed) can sell products that are harmful to people leading up to death, and they certainly do not put warning labels on thier wares.

people get hooked on opiods cuz they go searching for them in the medicine cabinets, and the people they are prescribed to do not lock them up. people also get hooked on opioids because they do not seek the proper medical care to be rid of the root cause of thier pain. you cannot blame the pharmaceutical companies for that.

did i ever break the law..?? when i went above 55 MPH to maybe 60-65 sure.

did i get arrested and thrown in the pokey? no, because i did not kill someone or ruin someone life like a drug dealer.

please spare me your "poor peoples" speech.

do not compare me, an experienced, dedicated person, to a drug dealer. it just won't fly.

seems to me you "dabble" in recreational drugs yourself, to stand up for dead meth maker.

do drugs....do you...???

call a spade a spade, will you.???

in the "grow up and act your age" category, you fit the bill to a T, whining about a dead meth dealer.....

at least, you admitted to being a snowflake/pansey

sheesh, takes all kinds of people (like you) to speak up for a drug dealer....

 

Well Buddy, while I don't necessarily disagree with the basic sentiment of your post, I would submit that there are a LOT of people in the joint who didn't do anything.
I would encourage everyone to look into:
Innocence Project - Help us put an end to wrongful convictions!

There's old men being released regularly who were 20 or younger when they were sentenced to life for something they didn't do. Look here:
Explore the Numbers: Innocence Project's Cases and Impact

So, yeah, if you do the crime, you need to do the time. But how do you give a man the best years of his life back after locking him up for something he didn't do?

 

the premise of this entire thread, was that a meth dealer (maybe even the cook) was killed while in jail, serving his sentence. we need not drag any innocents in this thread, that's for yet another thread, at another time, when an innocent person (male or female) is set free either due to DNA testing or a witness coming forward.

i need not explore any jailed people being set free, as that was NOT the original premise of this thread. i am staying the course on the subject, while others are doing what is always a given on boards.....adding things to the story, that should not be.

 

Our country isn't about justice or rehabilitation. It's got a huge prison economy. A decade or so ago the state of Pennsylvania had a huge scandal about judges with economic interests in juvenile detention centers having rediculous rates of incarcerated kids in their dockets....
No money in fixing people, just keep adding more laws. I heard a statement a few years back that I cannot verify but seems legit that kids nowadays are 10x more likely to have a police record than their grandparents. It's not about justice.

 

The extent of my prison stay was limited to visiting inmates a few times.

I wont be shy about saying that having a death sentence or public whipping or something like that * even when innocent* would be more humane than caging people for years no matter their crime.

My drug use has been limited to pot 3 times when i was 19, it doesnt do much to me, sorry to disappoint.

As whiny as you are about how theres warning labels on fda approved drugs, have you looked at reporting requirements? Have you looked at every single one of those warning labels? They all say it can cause addiction and death. Youre pretending that theres no profit motive in putting opioids in peoples cabinets. Meth is essentially add drugs turned to 11. Weed has far less social harm than even alcohol, yet which one is legal?

As for the previous shot about how you want to be spared from hearing about the difference in the way people are treated due to wealth. No. You dont get concession. You dont get that because ignoring that is ignoring reality. I saw firsthand the way different kids at the age of 15 were treated not due to race, but due to their parents income amd job type. Working joe in construction? Yeah that kid caught for using pot was tossed out of school and there was rehab and community sevice required. Lawyers kid that DEALT the drugs, absolutely nothing happened. But single mother at macdonalds? That kid was in jail or juvenile detention.

You dont get the luxury of ignoring the fact that that justice system has a sliding scale depending on whether your socioeconomic station is deemed "good"

I WILL compare you to the drug dealer because the difference is nothing, youre both human. You want to advocate putting kids of 18 that dealt pot or meth in prison locked up with rapists and murderers and every other element EXCEPT the successful for 10 years and then expect that at 28 when they get out, theyre going to be BETTER for the experience? that theyre going to just go out in the world and be productive upstanding citizens? Get bent.

 

No, its me being lazy and not quoting the other peoples posts as well.

 

There are 6 basic classifications in the Federal System.

1. Supermax
2. USP
3. FCI medium
4. FCI low
5 Camps
6 Medical Prisons

The supermax is just that, 23 hours a day in a cell. No contact with other prisoners. The USPs and the FCI Mediums are dangerous. Even Correctional Officers get killed in them. I was offered a job at the Atlanta Federal Prison back in the 80s. I told that guy not NO but (redacted) NO!!!!! I'm all for helping a prisoner adjust once released, but the largest majority of prisoners in the USPs and the mediums are right where they belong. I sleep better at night knowing this! If that makes me a bad person, then so be it!