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Its thinking like this that has led to the kind of club med mentallity in our prisons today.

Prison is a bad place. It needs to be a bad place. I am paid very well to work in these conditions and understand that it it part of my job.

Nothing bothers me more than people that have never walked a day in my shoes and never walked a tier in their life pontificating on how tough inmates have it.

The problems that these inmates are facing are for the most part directly related to their own behavior and are delt with in a manner consistent with behavior problems.

When the correctional staff begin to complain of the working conditions I will be a wee bit more attentive but when yet another article comes along where inmates are whining about actually having to "pay" for their crimes I tend to get a little hard of hearing.

I hope that I didn't come off to ranty but i have been listening to this type of drivel for 15 years and frankly when I leave work hearing a bunch of convicted felons complaining about their lot in life I can't help but think...

"I quess I earned my pay today" :)

I see your point of view - and as a former officer, I can tell you I totally agree.

But ... in my experience, I found that if you treat people like pigs, they will act like pigs; but if you treat them like human beings, MOST of them will act like human beings.

By the way, who gets to clean up the messes these people are making - isn't that a waste of time. And, while you're allowing them to make these messes, THEY are in charge, not you.

I can understand punishment - and I agree that criminals do not deserve fluff of any kind. However, 100 degree temps is a bit much, especially since they cannot even leave their window open because of bugs ...?? I mean, common human decency has nothing to do with punishment.

Punishment is never leaving a tiny room; but making it a bug infested hot box is not reasonable.