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Impunity is to beat up an inmate in a prison being a prison officer in an unacceptable, unjust and illegal way, and getting no criminal procedure at all, in contrary, you will be celebrated among staff members that you are brave and you defended the honor of the community. Your self respect is even higher and you can climb froward in prison hierarchy. You repeat the beating again and again, and after a while you will get respect also among the inmates. And you say that you do not feel any remorse, this is your obligation, and this is your mandate. Bosses are reluctant to intervene, they try to manage the prison, and if they say that the prisoners are relaxed and not disruptive (because you have beaten up them), you can get nice words from your bosses, and later you will be the one who will get also rewards and reputation. You are going to get the position of the deputy prison director, you will have the control on the drug market and cell phone smuggling within the prison, you will get your profit as well...
This is a perspective for beginner prison officers in my country. Injustice stimulates the prison harms, and turns inmates even more hardcore. Injustice destroys the aims of rehabilitation and reintegration but also the supervision.
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