<story><title>In illinois, a warden tried to fix an abusive prison</title><url>https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/11/15/illinois-federal-prison-thomson-abuse-thomas-bergami</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>Our prison system is inhumane and our treatment of prisoners is torture. I don&amp;#x27;t doubt there will be a lot of resistance to cleaning the system up because basically everyone involved is guilty and won&amp;#x27;t like the idea of suddenly being vulnerable to being held accountable for what they&amp;#x27;ve been doing.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s still a strong culture in the US that fetishizes punishment. A disturbingly high number of people want criminals to go to prison and get beaten and raped. They don&amp;#x27;t care how many innocent people get caught up in it as long it isn&amp;#x27;t them personally and so long as at least some people they feel &amp;quot;deserve it&amp;quot; are being tortured. I&amp;#x27;d like to think that those attitudes will change and eventually we&amp;#x27;ll start improving things, but I don&amp;#x27;t see it happening any time soon.</text></comment>
<story><title>In illinois, a warden tried to fix an abusive prison</title><url>https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/11/15/illinois-federal-prison-thomson-abuse-thomas-bergami</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unethical_ban</author><text>&amp;gt;“the vast majority of our employees are hardworking, ethical, diligent corrections professionals, who act with integrity daily and want those engaging in misconduct to be held accountable.”&lt;p&gt;In the career of prison guard, the ideal would be 100% integrity.&lt;p&gt;I believe unions have their issues, but that in a &amp;quot;market&amp;quot; career, such as the trades or retail or service workers, the good outweighs the bad.&lt;p&gt;Unions for police and prison guards are 100% a mafia and they should not be tolerated. It needs to be much easier to fire cops.</text></comment>