“We will continue to try to ascertain what additional measures are being made to protect Derek and will pursue any avenues available under the law to ensure his continued safety,” Chauvin’s attorney Gregory M. Erickson said.

Chauvin, who was convicted in the 2020 murder of George Floyd, was allegedly stabbed with an “improvised knife” Nov. 24 while in the law library at Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona, by inmate John Turscak, 52, according to a criminal complaint.

  • Neato@kbin.social
    61·
    1 year ago

    I agree. But I’m also thrilled to see that prisons are equal-opportunity shitholes for the demographics the powers try to imprison, and their own lackeys. Maybe this will shed enough light on how terrible prisons are that Americans collectively give a shit and try to fix them?

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
      11·
      1 year ago

      Maybe this will shed enough light on how terrible prisons are that Americans collectively give a shit and try to fix them?

      That would be brilliant, but I just can’t see it happening. The right have consistently opposed any kind of reform and clearly want the prison system to punish people through rape, abuse and violence.

      They’d obvious love to get one of their favourite state executioners out of that situation, but they’re not going to fix the system for millions of people – most of whom are poor, part of a minority group and therefore undesirables – to make it happen.