A recent headline out of Toronto - 'Wheelchair Killer’ fears prison payback - got me thinking about how hard (like, extra extra hard) it must be for wheelchair-users who end up in prison. But then I chide myself. They deserve it, right? What’s fair is fair. Afterall, I firmly believe people with disabilities shouldn’t get any type of special treatment, especially when it comes to judicial matters.
But, is it extra torturous and therefore a harsher punishment for a guy in a wheelchair vs. a guy who can walk (if let’s say they’re both serving identical terms)? I’m going to assume wheelchair-using inmates DO NOT get to interview/hire their own PCA’s on Craiglist. I’m also going to assume the guards don’t give them any kind of special protection. So, if you’re the guy from the article mentioned above (he tortured and killed a developmentally disabled young woman, pic seen above, with a blowtorch with the help of an accomplice. you can read the actual torture details here), this is probably karma coming back at him, to bite him in the numb/flat ass.
If you read the article, you’ll see the killer is worried that the other inmates will try to kill him the day he arrives, because in prison, there’s actually a pecking order when it comes to the evilness of everyone’s crimes (torture and molestation of kids, up to young women, are all looked at as the worst of the worse). He is pleading with the judge asking to be sent to an institution, not prison.
You know the more I continue writing this blog, the more this guy just pisses me off. Let him rot in prison, unable to walk or no. He should’ve thought of the dire consequences before killing that poor woman. Some people just piss me off.
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