A large brawl broke out in a Los Angeles Jail, resulting in the hospitalization of seven inmates and a total of 78 inmates being involved with the brawl. The brawl was reportedly started due to racial tensions and security guards took 15 minutes to break up the fight. The guards ultimately had to resort to the use of pepper spray and sting balls to quell the violence. Some of the injuries were caused by the pepper spray.
Violence in prison is not a new concept. Although violent behaviors is ultimately what caused the imprisonment of many inmates, some psychologists feel that the prison system itself teaches criminals to be violent. Some inmates immediately get in a fight to prove their aggressive nature before other inmates try to victimize them. Other psychologists have theorized that prisons harden criminals and provide a resource for inmates to learn more successful methods to accomplish crimes without being detected. This most recent brawl seems to have taken a substantial amount of time to be ended. Although the fight began with a fight of four people, it quickly grew exponentially in size. Guards may have been able to realize the tensions before actual violence broke out. However, with budget cuts across all federal programs, there may not have been enough manpower for a guard to personalize witness the escalation before the encounter became violent. Hopefully this event will not lead to pointless lawsuits by the aggressors who claim that the jail system owes them money for their pepper spray induced wounds. Read more about this story here.
Samantha Kemp received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Business and in Spanish at Hendrix College. She received her law degree at the University of Arkansas School of Law. She has written on several topics, including law, personal finance, business, society, relationships, entertainment and more.
Violence in prison is not a new concept. Although violent behaviors is ultimately what caused the imprisonment of many inmates, some psychologists feel that the prison system itself teaches criminals to be violent. Some inmates immediately get in a fight to prove their aggressive nature before other inmates try to victimize them. Other psychologists have theorized that prisons harden criminals and provide a resource for inmates to learn more successful methods to accomplish crimes without being detected. This most recent brawl seems to have taken a substantial amount of time to be ended. Although the fight began with a fight of four people, it quickly grew exponentially in size. Guards may have been able to realize the tensions before actual violence broke out. However, with budget cuts across all federal programs, there may not have been enough manpower for a guard to personalize witness the escalation before the encounter became violent. Hopefully this event will not lead to pointless lawsuits by the aggressors who claim that the jail system owes them money for their pepper spray induced wounds. Read more about this story here.
Samantha Kemp received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Business and in Spanish at Hendrix College. She received her law degree at the University of Arkansas School of Law. She has written on several topics, including law, personal finance, business, society, relationships, entertainment and more.
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