I thought Dirty Harry was compassionate...to the law-abiding citizen not to the punks who were preying upon society.
For example, we had a maggot named Philip Markoff, the medical student who robbed prostitutes and murdered one of them, commit suicide in the Suffolk County Jail on Sunday. Rather than simply say, “Well, the punk saved the taxpayers of Massholistan the cost of a trial and the cost of keeping him in prison, fed, and in good health,” the idiots around here are wondering if the correction officers could have done something to prevent the suicide. Look for plastic bag liners to be removed from the in-cell trash cans rather than providing draw-string bags in the cells of all who are awaiting trial for murder.
“...the idiots around here are wondering if the correction officers could have done something to prevent the suicide....”
You’re right. It is not the duty of the Dept. of Corrections to prevent suicide. If they are able to protect inmates from other inmates they are doing a good job w/o having to worry about a guilty-as-Hades depressed brat hurting himself.