Testimony begins in former correctional officers' assault trial

Defense attorneys on Tuesday described their clients - two former correctional officers who face second-degree assault charges - as heroes who worked every day in a prison environment to protect the public and are wrongly accused of assaulting an inmate March 8, 2008.

[Penelope]

I know first hand (not as an inmate) that correctional officers abuse and beat inmates. The "good old boy" mentality exists way beyond the southern states when it comes to America's prisons. I hope that these COs are convicted and get a taste of their own medicine, oh, wait, they will be put in protective custody because they are, in reality, little girls able to push people around because they settled for a job as a prison guard.

[left long ago]

i know plenty of prison guards on a personel level they did not settle for a job they go thru alot of training to be hired.dont lump all of them together cause of a few.most go in do a job that MOST people would not and go home like the rest of us that have jobs.

[Publius]

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