Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar stabbed by another inmate at federal prison

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Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar stabbed by another inmate at federal prison

The disgraced sports doctor has been stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another inmate at a federal prison in Florida.

apnews.com

Couldn't find much info about his condition, other than that he was taken to a hospital. He was attacked previously at another prison in Tucson, then transferred to Oklahoma, and then transferred again to Florida. This guy is a total miscreant and a major scumbag, and it appears that he may be targeted by other inmates.

However, the other concern raised in this article is the tremendous staffing shortages faced by the federal prison system. Apparently, a third of the positions are vacant, and guards are forced to work lots of overtime. In this case, both guards were working 16-hour shifts.

The federal Bureau of Prisons has experienced significant staffing shortages in the last few years, an issue thrust into the spotlight in 2019 when the convicted financier Jeffrey Epstein took his own life at a federal jail in New York.

An Associated Press investigation in 2021 revealed nearly one third of federal correctional officer positions were vacant nationwide, forcing prisons to use cooks, teachers, nurses and other workers to guard inmates. The staffing shortages have hampered the response to emergencies at other prisons, including suicides.

Other AP investigations have revealed sexual abuse and criminal conduct, among other problems, at the Bureau of Prisons — the Justice Department’s largest agency, with more than 30,000 employees, 158,000 inmates and an annual budget of about $8 billion.

The bureau’s new leader, Colette Peters, was brought in last year to reform the crisis-plagued agency. She has vowed to reform archaic hiring practices and bring new transparency. But problems have persisted, as shown by the the recent suicide of Ted Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,″ at a federal lockup in North Carolina.

On Sunday, one of the officers in Nassar’s unit was working a third straight day of overtime, each of them a 16-hour shift, one of the people familiar with the matter said. The other officer was on a second straight day of mandated overtime, the person said.

Out of curiosity, I wanted to check the stats on federal inmates listed by offense: BOP Statistics: Inmate Offenses

Chart Label	Offense	# of Inmates	% of Inmates
a​	Banking and Insurance, Counterfeit, Embezzlement	191​	0.1%​
b​	Burglary, Larceny, Property Offenses	7,218​	4.9%​
c​	Continuing Criminal Enterprise	247​	0.2%​
d​	Courts or Corrections	599​	0.4%​
e​	Drug Offenses	65,468​	44.4%​
f​	Extortion, Fraud, Bribery	6,256​	4.2%​
g​	Homicide, Aggravated Assault, and Kidnapping Offenses	4,747​	3.2%​
h​	Immigration	7,781​	5.3%​
i​	Miscellaneous	819​	0.6%​
j​	National Security	45​	0.0%​
k​	Robbery	3,974​	2.7%​
l​	Sex Offenses	17,957​	12.2%​
m​	Weapons, Explosives, Arson	32,064​	21.8%​

Some of these offenses may be considered non-violent, and if they're really facing such acute staffing shortages, maybe they could parole some of the non-violent offenders and reduce the number of inmates. Almost half are drug offenses.

 

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I find that in the public, & among politicians
there is widespread acceptance that there will
be extra-judicial punishment in prison, meted
out by fellow inmate, & rogue guards.
Of course, this exceeds what's imposed by their
sentence, & is unconstitutionally cruel, unusual,
& other violations.
Why the under-staffing? It's about indifference
to civil rights, welfare, & rehabilitation of inmates.

 

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I find that in the public, & among politicians
there is widespread acceptance that there will
be extra-judicial punishment in prison, meted
out by fellow inmate, & rogue guards.
Of course, this exceeds what's imposed by their
sentence, & is unconstitutionally cruel, unusual,
& other violations.
Why the under-staffing? It's about indifference
to civil rights, welfare, & rehabilitation of inmates.

They probably could have anticipated this. I know that with some prisoners of a certain degree of renown and notoriety are kept sequestered from the general population. I think that was the case with Charles Manson, and even the Unabomber was kept in the Supermax until his medical condition worsened and they had to transfer him to another facility - where he committed suicide. On the other hand, they put Jeffrey Dahmer in with the general population, and he didn't last long before inmate vigilante justice was imposed upon him, which also could have been anticipated.

But if they really are so understaffed, then they could reduce some of the problem by paroling the non-violent, lesser offenders and just keep the violent and dangerous ones behind bars. That would reduce the number of guards needed, which might solve part of the problem.