Crime does pay

[dimas]

Jail settles ex-inmate's case
Cincinnati Enquirer

The Grant County, Ohio, jail this week paid out the biggest settlement to date to resolve one of 17 federal civil rights lawsuits filed against it.
Former inmate Billy Jo Killion received $175,000 as part of an out-of-court settlement.
Killion's suit claims he was savagely beaten while serving a 120-day sentence on a burglary conviction in 2003.
Killion's public defender at the time pleaded with a judge to release Killion early so he could receive proper medical treatment for the injuries received in the beating.
The motion for early release called the treatment of Killion's condition at the jail "disturbing."
The settlement brings to $492,500 the amount that has been paid to settle a series of civil rights lawsuits that were filed in the last two years.
The settlements are being paid by the county's insurer, the Kentucky Association of Counties.
Six civil rights cases have been settled this summer for an average of $82,000.


It is very unfortunate that criminals are rewarded for the crimes they commit.  They are not stupid, they know very well how to work the system, instigate a guard or officer into physical force and they come out of it with plenty of money to spend.  In this case it wasn't even the officers who attacked him, but other inmates.

Sorry, but this just makes me sick and I had to vent.


For those of you about to start a career in LE, get ready because you will have to deal with this bull**** on a daily basis.  

[DippityShurff]

Please forgive me Dimas for not knowing how to put up a short quote from your vent.  But I can't help but be reminded of what G. Gordon Liddy said...."If crime didn't pay, there would be no crime".

A more practical way to handle the egregious cases of abuse in the prisons would be to deal with the guilty parties.  I would not ever, ever, ever (did I say ever) enrich an inmate and allow them to make money.

I feel your pain!