The Lady Debates

Saturday, February 18, 2006

A definite miscarriage of justice

I can't help it, I have to say something about this: I read an article in the paper this morning about how a teen at a juvenile detention boot camp in Panama City, Fla, died as a result of a beating by guards. The authorities there were claiming he died as a result of his sickle cell aenemia illness. But they had a security tape of the entire beating, and it showed the youth lying LIMP for most of it, nonresistant, even though the guards claimed he was being uncooperative. His body was covered with bruises and scrapes, but "it was said they were linked to attempts to resuscitate him." Of all the bull malarkey I've ever heard, that is it! This poor boy was brought to this boot camp for a probation violation, and for 80 minutes, as many as nine guards brutalized him! To top it all off, the county Medical Examiner blamed the resultant internal bleeding which the boy died from at the hospital on his sickle cell disease. Have you ever of any such abhorrent garbage as this? It's probably just one more place like Guantanamo Bay where guards with masochist tendencies wreak their own sicknesses on the so-called terrorist prisoners, only here, HERE it's done to the underaged, to minors, to teenagers, some of whose only crime( it might be) is to have a genetic physical illness they can do nothing about. Is that justice?! And to allow something almost no less than a gangbang, nine probably well-muscled guards to one youth? Come on! It's no wonder his mother couldn't watch the entire tape. The boy's only infraction was that he began having breathing difficulties and collapsed "while doing pushups, situps, and other exercises." And for that, nine guards start whopping up on him and restraining him. Reading this just made me sick. What about any of you out there? Have you any opinions on this?

1 Comments:

  • At 11:44 AM, Blogger Katja R. said…

    Some of those 'boot camp' facilities are particularly awful!
    There's an old joke about prison guards, it goes like this

    What happened when the whore married the prison guard?
    He brought her down to his own level!

     

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