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Rikers Island's Fight Club

If inmates are going to fight each other, anyway, why shouldn't we guards get in on it? Officers Michael McKie, Khalid Nelson and Denise Albright called their fight club "The Program," and the teens they recruited as enforcers were "The Team," officials said. Team members were allowed to extort commissary money, clothing and phone privileges from other city jail inmates. Those who didn't cooperate were beaten - and McKie and Nelson set the time, place and punishment, prosecutors said.You can read the rest of the story here.  Everyone will be aghast over these stories.  I'm not surprised.  Prisoners run the prisons.  This is nothing new.  Here, the guards simply got in on the action.If we actually cared about prison health or welfare, we'd do something other than gasp when articles like these hit the press...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 23, 2009 (boomark / email).