In the Morning Journal from Ohio there is an article called Ex-county worker indicted: Video shows Detention home employee slamming teen onto table. You can see the video if you click on the above link.
Some of the comments that follow the article amaze me…. such as…..
hrlyrdr wrote on Oct 28, 2009 7:53 AM:
whereisyoursign wrote on Oct 28, 2009 10:10 AM:
“Catalano told deputies he was forced to restrain the teenager and slam him on the table because the teen was verbally abusive and refused to listen to orders.”
Usually it is only justifiable to use physical force when someone is threatening your safety. While there may have been ‘verbal abuse’ (there’s no way of telling if there was or not) you can clearly see from the video that the boy is cooperating with the supervisor, and is in no way threatening the supervisor.
This boy received 17 stitches to a split chin, and while this is “bad,” where is the outrage when these things happen in private “therapy” companies when there ARE NO cameras watching.
This happened where are guard/supervisor knew he was being taped…imagine what happens off camera.
These types of institutions bring out the worst in even the best of people, it’s a natural phenomena among human beings. To better understand how certain institutional and residential situation do this to people, please see Dr. Zimbardo’s book The Lucifer Effect.
The Stamford Prison Experiment in the early 70’s was his first social psychological experiment in this matter and was expanded on in his latest book, The Lucifer Effect.
The nature of institutions has to change before these “evil incidents if injustice” are to cease existence.
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