Comments on: Court: Prison Guards Can Use ‘Stand Your Ground’

By: melodies4us

melodies4us — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 04:01:58 +0000

I don’t think this is a good idea.

By: Deb Pro

Deb Pro — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 02:47:39 +0000

Mark, if movies are where you get your information, shame on you. Inmates yell CO, because even they have respect for the academy/state test COs have to take/pass. Correctional Officers should have the benefit of the SYG law. They knowingly walk into a neighborhood filled with felonious criminals, with little to no weapons on their belts. You should thank them for doing a thankless job and keeping your state safer for you and yours.

By: Marsha

Marsha — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:46:09 +0000

So I’ve read the comments and this is what I’ve learned. Correctional Officers provide care custody and control to people locked in a secure environment. So if the unfortunate happens the attacker will be caught unless they escape somehow. A Guard supervises unknown people in a unsecured environment and may have to confront a person not having no knowledge of like a contact card or face sheet. And if the unfortunate happens to them their attacker will flee. I now understand why a Guard would be offended to be compared. I am offended at least once a year when I am referred to as being white I spend a lot of time and money to be a great shade of tan:)

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:12:47 +0000

Prison Guard – Correctional Officer (Hey, how about “Turnkey”?)

COP – Police Officer

Secretary – Executive Assistant

Steward/Stewardess – Flight Attendant

How many of you that wish to be called a certain title, call others by the “incorrect” one?

Same job, different name. Quit being offended at a name and lighten up Francis!

BTW, I have never seen a prison movie where the inmate is screaming “Correctional Officer! Correctional Officer!”

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 05:54:02 +0000

Because Correctional Officers never do what prison guards did ere their job title was changed???

Back then they guarded felons in prisons.
Nowadays they correct misbehavior by felons in correctional institutions?

Regardless, it’s a very good reason to avoid being places where you can be fatally corrected.

David for pretty euphemisms

By: g

Sun, 30 Mar 2014 23:59:01 +0000

Sorry to bust your bubbles but “guards” work at Walmart

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 23:15:58 +0000

Curious he said some.

By: Kandi

Kandi — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 19:18:38 +0000

So can inmates use it on other inmates. Can school students without being punished by the rules they are told to follow?

By: jcellops

jcellops — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:12:31 +0000

i have a concern regarding some correctional officers using this “stand your ground law” during inmate/CO altercations……..behind the walls of the correctional facilities, i know that there is an unwritten modus operandi or code of law, which says that the officers protect their own, regardless of right or wrong….unless there are video cameras up EVERYWHERE to substantiate other guard (witness) testimony to the potential event that would lead to deadly force or battery, i believe that this law could be easily subjected to abuse……on the “outside” there usually are unbiased witness, forensics and other factual methods for determining a qualified justification of utilizing the “stand your ground” law…for the most part, i give the guards ample credit for doing a necessary and dangerous job that most could not do (myself included)..but, i think often its just too difficult to maintain high ethical standards once they go “inside”- and have to deal with some of the more viscious, violent inmates- lifers, especially.

By: Curious

Curious — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 13:24:38 +0000

Perdido fisherman, some of them do, not all, & for the ones that do, that is a character flaw for themselves & makes others look bad, but please don’t judge all