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Ever Been To Prison?
I was watching some kind of special about high-security prisons last night on one of the cable channels and they were talking about violence in the prison system. At one point they showed some video footage of a prisoner getting attacked by another prisoner with a knife and almost killed the dude. That got me to wondering about what responsibilities that the state has to keep you safe after they sentance you to years in jail. And...if the state fails to keep you safe and you get hurt, do you have any legal recourse like bringing lawsuits against the state for failure to protect you against violent persons. Surely a prisoner has some kind of legal recourse for the failure of a prison to protect one, no?
*discuss*
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