Security Cameras Catch Prison Running Gladiator School

Security Cameras Catch Prison Running Gladiator School

It's been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, unfortunately this statement is still valid today. The people who enforce the laws of our nation do a great job for the most part, but sometimes it's also good to monitor them to make sure that they don't abuse their power.

In January of 2010, at a correctional facility in Idaho an inmate was viciously beaten by another prisoner until he was unconscious. While the victim was being beaten and stomped, he managed to bang on a prison guard security station window, begging for help. In the security booth none of the three prison guards looking on move to assist the man as he is beaten till he's knocked out. The attacker sits down to rest for a bit, then resumes the attack and still no one comes to intervene. After a few minutes the attacker stops the assault of his own accord and sits, another couple minutes pass and prison guards finally step in to handcuff the attacker. The victim was bleeding inside his head and spent the next three days in coma.

This attack may have never been reported except that one of prison's surveillance cameras caught and recorded the whole incident. The recorded video shows at least three guards in the vicinity of the attack, just watching the entire assault and not responding till a couple minutes after the attack stopped. The FBI is now investigating the possible criminal misconduct by the staff at Idaho's only privately run prison. They are looking in to many assaults between inmates at this prison which as been given the nickname 'Gladiator school' by the prisoner's because of all the inmate on inmate violence.

There are now many lawsuits by prisoners of the Idaho prison that are trying to prove that the correctional institution denies medical treatment to inmates as a means of covering up these types of violent assaults. Before the attack the victim asked for help from the prison staff, saying that he had been threatened and telling them about drug trafficking that he'd witnessed between inmates and prison employees. The victim was placed in solitary confinement to protect him, but after a while he was returned to the same cellblock with the prisoners that he'd informed on. He was only back in the unit for six minutes when he was attacked.

The victim has sued the company that runs the Idaho prison and the lawyers involved have reached a tentative settlement. The victim did survive, but now is able to talk much because he suffered brain damage and persistent short-term memory loss from the assault. The FBI is still investigating widespread abuse and neglect at many prisons that are run by the same company. Several people involved with this case have cited the surveillance camera footage as the key piece of evidence and without it those responsible for these terribly acts would most likely gone unpunished.

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