Our Jails Are A Scandal - Partly Because There Are Too Few Politicians Locked Up In Them - nationalreview.com
Excerpt from this article:
"The New York Times, having recollected for an instant that it is a newspaper, has been publishing
a remarkable series of investigations into Rikers Island, which is a
pit of infamy: beatings, rapes, torture, a dozen correctional officers
at a time taken in a drug sweep. And the villain of the Times
account is Seabrook, the president of the jailers’ union. Like all union
bosses, he has fought for more money and less work for his members.
Unlike most other union bosses, he has fought measures to impose more
meaningful penalties on corrupt and abusive guards, as well as more
robust screening methods designed to keep his members from bringing
drugs and other contraband into the jails. Politicians and wardens alike
fear him — he is the jailer in the prison of official cowardice."
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