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Department of corrections officials are reporting that incidents of inmate violence are down to record lows. One Prison has gone over one hundred days without a single act of violence. The head of Corsican Bay prison, Warden DePacas, feels that the legalizing of medical marijuana has helped curb the violence his prison was once known for.
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“Guys come in here all wound up. They are mad and want to lash out. Typically during their in processing we make everyone sit down with the head of our medical department Dr. Strawbury. Amazingly he finds that many of these young men have a chronic pain condition.”
Warden DePacas gave us a research article published by a major medical journal. The article details how being handcuffed behind the back causes pinched nerves and tendon damage. Long duration handcuffing behind the back (an hour or more) was found to cause damage that leads to chronic pain in 87% of the subjects studied by the researchers.
“Based on clinical research it shows that guys coming into the prison here are likely in chronic pain. So it is not like Dr Strawbury is overmedicating people for no reason. We know every one of them has been handcuffed and for almost all of them they have spent multiple hours with their hands behind their backs.”
Other prison leaders were skeptical but have turned into advocates. Sergeant Stedenko, the most senior guard has this to say.
“At first I was like there is no way I wanted all these prisoners getting free access to pot. But then as they got it, I saw the change. All the intimidation, all the posturing, and most importantly all the fights ended. I don’t know if handcuffs cause this chronic pain like the good doctor says they do, but I guess that is why he has a full MD and I just have 52 credits towards my AAS.”
Officials from all 50 states are looking at the results that Corsican Bay prison has seen. Many other wardens are considering having inmates assessed for this same chronic pain condition.
