No it’s not Scrappleface or from the pages of The Onion.
EDMONTON — Corrections Canada won’t let guards at maximum-security prisons wear stab-proof vests because it sends a confrontational “signal” to prisoners, says a department spokesman. “If you have that kind of presence symbolized by (a stab-proof vest), you’re sending a signal to the prisoner that you consider him to be a dangerous person,” said Tim Krause. “It interferes with what we call ‘dynamic security.’ We want staff to talk to prisoners, to see how they’re doing.”
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A kinder gentler security guard. “Thats a fine implement you have. Did you make it yourself? Good craftsmanship. What did you call it, oh yeah, a shiv. Make sure you don’t run with it. You might hurt yourself.”
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My response to that is the same as “kinder, gentler Marines.”
If they’re kind and gentle, why are they MARINES?
If they’re kind and gentle, why are they guards? If they’re kind and gentle, why are thei in prison?
Now they need to work on nixing stab-proof homemade weapons for the prisoners. After all, we want kinder, gentler inmates, too, now don’t we?
Sheesh.
I just happen to work in a prison in the US. We are just now going to get stab proof vests . Why? Because a convict unprovoked stabbed one of our oficers to death. So to this moron who says
It interferes with what we call ‘dynamic security.’ We want staff to talk to prisoners, to see how they’re doing.” I want to say I’ll come visit you and see how your doing with a 10 inch piece of steel stuck through your lung and heart. Who Gives a crap how they are doing? Our rule is our staff and officers go home safe at night and if need be inmates go in body bags not the other way around.