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For their October 10, 2013 broadcast, your “Crimes of the Century” co-hosts considered “Crackdowns on Inmate Organizing -- The Line Between Suppressing Disturbances and Suppressing Constitutional Rights”.
Certified correctional officer, former federal inmate discipline committeeman, and human rights activist Kenneth Kendrick kept us attuned to the volatility of prison environments and the risks of coordinated inmate conduct. But he was dismayed, as we all were, by the tendency of U.S. Courts to condemn outrageous and direct physical abuse of prisoners, but condone other de-humanizing treatment that can subject U.S. inmates to harsh if not tortuous conditions for so-called insubordination.
The idea of locking up prisoners and throwing away the key may be a better response to the monsters that U.S. prisons create than those they receive!
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