OCCOM BILL wrote:Bad example really. Prison guards get to know the clean, sober, mostly drug-free, unarmed versions of the fiends they baby-sit. To a large extent, so do social workers, lawyers and Judges. I suspect some would change their tune if they saw how some of these bastards behave in their natural settings.
I don't know, where you've worked as a social worker, Bill.
But since I do know a bit about social work in America as well (the University of California, San Francisco, used to [and still is] a partner university of the one I lectured at), I don'z believe, your above statement can be
that correct.
But why is a bad example that I worked there? [You didn't mran, I was a bad example for the inmates, did you:wink: ]
No, Walter, I didn't mean you were a bad example, at all. I mean that the worst of the worst are still human beings who like football and love their mothers. Viewing a violent offender in a somewhat subdued environment like a prison, doesn't necessarily tell you who he is when he's wired on PCP, drunk, carrying weapons... or just hasn't worried about law enforcement in a while. I suspect it could give a false sense of humanity that may well exist in the prison environment, but may all but disappears on the streets. You never really know a person until you've seen them at their worst.
