feenyx

We could make it so that any crime committed in blind spots is punishable by sentencing? You would still have camera feeds of the 'before blind spot' and 'after blind spot'. If you are unlucky enough to have been caught on those cameras, and somebody got beat up inbetween... too bad, you just lost your job - or worse. The cameras prove you were there; so either you partook in the beating of the inmate - or you stood idly by and let it happen. Either way you are accountable for the incident.

Until you make EVERYONE liable, nothing will change.

But is the refusal a conscious choice they make, or are they somehow legally precluded from doing so?

DA not prosecuting state employees is also a great cause for concern, and one that could use a lot of light shed on it. This sort of thing just should not be allowed to happen anywhere.

This is pretty much the same observation (of your system) we make in Europe. The root of the problem obviously lie with the higher-ups that stand to lose a boatload of money if the prison system were ever deprivatized. It should never have been privatized in the first place.

If I may ask; how far up the ranks of your previous employer did this problem go; did the prison warden (the guy with the biggest office) know about the goings-on?

Outside of the people actually committing these transgressions, who knew what was going on? Did "everyone" that worked there know, or just that "core" group?