Baltimore Jail's Appalling Conditions May Explain Seven Deaths, Lawsuit Says

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

I thought right-wingers believe jail should be a horrible place?

That certainly seems to be part of what LawPuppy is saying @ post #7.

[djv8ga]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

I thought right-wingers believe jail should be a horrible place?

So Maryland is Righty since they treat people in jail like dog s&$t?

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by djv8ga

So Maryland is Righty since they treat people in jail like dog s&$t?

It's not a question of a policy of treating people poorly. It's a plain old lack of resources coupled with corruption.

Like other big formerly industrial cities, Baltimore has no tax base any more, no more steel mills, no more ship building, no more auto manufacturing and no more of the myriad small and medium size employers who served the big employers. Of course, this also means there are no more jobs so people need to look for alternatives. In the poorest communities this means crime, principally drugs.

In institutions like the Baltimore Detention Center and the Baltimore Police Department, the low to mid level employees are drawn from the same community and grew up learning the same lessons as the criminals who become their responsibility. It's not surprising then that many of them think the same way as the criminals do. That's why you get prison guards dealing drugs and contraband inside the jail or doing favors for incarcerated gang lords in exchange for money or cars or other payments. That's why you get cops who think they have immunity from the laws they're supposed to enforced and who victimize the people they're supposed to protect.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by LawDawg

Here's a novel approach....don't break the law....don't go to jail.

Only but that worked everywhere for everyone, but, sadly, it just doesn't.

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[djv8ga]

Originally Posted by Boreas

It's not a question of a policy of treating people poorly. It's a plain old lack of resources coupled with corruption.

Like other big formerly industrial cities, Baltimore has no tax base any more, no more steel mills, no more ship building, no more auto manufacturing and no more of the myriad small and medium size employers who served the big employers. Of course, this also means there are no more jobs so people need to look for alternatives. In the poorest communities this means crime, principally drugs.

In institutions like the Baltimore Detention Center and the Baltimore Police Department, the low to mid level employees are drawn from the same community and grew up learning the same lessons as the criminals who become their responsibility. It's not surprising then that many of them think the same way as the criminals do. That's why you get prison guards dealing drugs and contraband inside the jail or doing favors for incarcerated gang lords in exchange for money or cars or other payments. That's why you get cops who think they have immunity from the laws they're supposed to enforced and who victimize the people they're supposed to protect.

Yes, I know. I was just responding to Dave's post.

It's amazing how powerful organized crime is in this country...to me anyway. If I saw this in a movie, I would have thought it was ridiculous.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by djv8ga

So Maryland is Righty since they treat people in jail like dog s&$t?

No, that was not my point. What appeared to me to be feigned outrage at the conditions of this particular jail was what I was pointing at.

[djv8ga]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

No, that was not my point. Feigned outrage at the conditions of this particular jail was what I was pointing at.

No, you didn't get my point which was that you didn't have a point with that post.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by djv8ga

No, you didn't get my point which was that you didn't have a point with that post.

Come on, I got Dave's point. Since you are a self avowed righty, extreme right is how you described yourself, you should indeed be happy that the conditions are awful at the Baltimore jail, a typical right wing sentiment. What's there not to understand.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

Come on, I got Dave's point. Since you are a self avowed righty, extreme right is how you described yourself, you should indeed be happy that the conditions are awful at the Baltimore jail, a typical right wing sentiment. What's there not to understand.

Exactly.

[djv8ga]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

Come on, I got Dave's point. Since you are a self avowed righty, extreme right is how you described yourself, you should indeed be happy that the conditions are awful at the Baltimore jail, a typical right wing sentiment. What's there not to understand.

You know what I can't understand? I can't understand how an alleged engineer can't keep a circuit breaker panel dry in the rain.