The New Ideas Blog

A friend that I play chess with recently told me about a young man he knew who was in prison for some crime. This man is developmentally disabled. As a result, he was brutally abused in prison by other inmates. I don’t know what crime he committed, and given his condition, he might not have known. In any case, after too much abuse at the hands of other prisoners, this mentally disabled man had to commit some minor infraction against a guard in order to be put into solitary confinement - the only place he felt safe. It seems likely that the prison could prevent these problems if they truly wanted to.

I don’t care what his crime is. Maybe he (more…)