ISCC WARDEN'S USE OF PEER PRESSURE TACTICS IN ATTEMPTING TO SOLVE PRISON VIOLENCE A FAILURE - AGAIN
Imagine that when one of your co-workers was late to work your entire department was docked a weeks pay for his tardiness - or if your child's entire class had a well earned field trip and three days of classes canceled because someone in her class shoplifted a pack of gum at the grocery store. Is this type of collective punishment appropriate even where those punished have no say in the actions of others? Should these punishments extend even to the denial of medical treatment? Despite IDOC SOP and regulations preventing any prisoner from having any supervisory or other authority over another inmate, prison administrators at the ISCC continue to utilize "peer pressure" tactics to maintain control of prisoners by punishing (usually by locking down) entire housing units (tiers) when only one prisoner assigned to that tier gets into even a minor altercation or fight with another - even when the offending prisoner is removed from the tier to the hole, or assigned to another