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Jail policy senseless

A guy kills – KILLS – his cellmate at the closely supervised Spokane County Jail.

Not scheduled to be released until 2048, he spends five years at the maximum security prison at Walla Walla before being sent to the Airway Heights medium correctional facility. There he is put in with not one, but two cellmates! He gouges one cellmate’s eye out and injures the other guy. The brutality and barbarity of the attack is matched by the outrageous recklessness by state Department of Corrections officials.

DOC Secretary Eldon Vail said that they do not have a policy that prohibits killers from living with someone again, and “You try not to make sweeping policy changes based on one bad incident. … You’ve got to think of who you’re dealing with here.”

Exactly! You’re dealing with a guy who killed his cellmate. Is that pretty common in the Washington prison system? If so, we really do not need more capital punishment.

Paul Unger

Spokane

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