Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, was transferred to a federal prison in Texas almost nine months after he was stabbed in a different facility, the federal Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Chauvin, 47, is now housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring, a low-security prison. He was previously held in Arizona at FCI Tucson in August 2022 to simultaneously serve a 21-year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights and a 22 1/2-year state sentence for second-degree murder.
The transfer comes nearly nine months after Chauvin was stabbed 22 times in prison by a former gang leader and one-time FBI informant.
I would not. I would not be okay with anyone being stabbed in prison.
Prison shouldn’t be about vengeance. I don’t care how awful you are.
Okay but what about them getting stabbed outside of or inbetween prison?
How about not compounding murder with a second murder?
Maybe not murder, maiming yes murder nah. Death is to good for him.
Or… and hear me out here… we don’t encourage violence?
I’m not encouraging any violence, but i sure am savoring the schadenfreude.
But how else will people feel morally superior to people they don’t like if they don’t flippantly wish violence and death on them?!
I don’t even think it’s a moral superiority thing. I think it’s this idea that people should get what they deserve. Of course, this both ignores that “what they deserve” is entirely subjective and that who should get what they deserve is entirely subjective.
At the same time people are celebrating Chauvin being stabbed in prison, or harmed elsewhere there can easily be found instances of conservatives celebrating when someone they don’t like gets stabbed in prison or harmed elsewhere. People on the left were aghast at Republican celebrations of Paul Pelosi being attacked with a hammer. The right thinks he deserved to be attacked because he’s a bad, bad man and he got what he deserved.
Maybe no one should get what they deserve. Maybe justice and vengeance should be two different things and we should strive for one without the other.
Maybe it will encourage prison reform? I think about all the falsely imprisoned people and people sent to prison for nonviolent crime and my sympathy for the likes of sbf goes away.
It’s not about sympathy. I have no sympathy for Derek Chauvin. It’s about prison not being about vengeance.
Until there is serious reform shit likethis is part of the prison experience.
That doesn’t mean it should be cheered on.
It’s depressing that this isn’t the common viewpoint.
Some people commit crimes that are truly sickening, but even in those circumstances the point of prison is rehabilitation and separation of them from the public. Having it become a place for people to fetishize punishment like it is in TV/movies is also sickening.