Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar has been stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another inmate at a federal prison in Florida. Nassar is serving decades in prison after admitting sexually assaulting athletes at Michigan State University and at Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, including Olympic medalists.
I don’t think it’s exactly a good thing that our prisons are so poorly managed that people can easily random suffer extra-judicial violence, and I certainly don’t think it’s something to celebrate. Sure, today it was a total piece of shit, but circumstances that enable this kind of disorder, combined with our less-than-perfect justice system, mean that tomorrow it could easily be someone who was falsely arrested and shouldn’t even be in prison that gets stabbed.
That said, I certainly won’t shed any tears for Larry here.
I’m really glad people think this way. Our prison system is SUPPOSED to be about rehabilitation not random or targeted acts of violence. Whenever a story like this shows up on Reddit the entire thread is filled with people celebrating the violence yet those same people would condemn the violence right-wingers or people who don’t think like them. The man has already been judged by his peers and sentenced. Any further punishment or violence goes beyond justice.