Brickbat: Jailhouse Rot
The Caddo Parish, Louisiana, Sheriff's Office fired Danny C. Taylor, a deputy who worked in the Caddo Correctional Center. Officials said Taylor told one inmate to walk into another inmate's cell and beat him up. Security video showed Taylor watching the attack without trying to stop it. Taylor now faces one count of second-degree battery and one count of malfeasance in office.
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Prison is not meant to keep inmates in gem mint 10 condition, it is to keep inmates away from the rest of society.
Fight Club!
Oh, so now we're arresting Louisiana law enforcement for doing Louisiana law enforcement things? What's next? Hold Louisiana prosecutors to standards? Slippery slope.