re: Thomas Silverstein has been in solitary confinement with the lights on since 1983

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Guards who get killed are generally a POS who treat the prisoners as inhuman. Or they were dirty and working with prisoners smuggling in drugs or something.... Either way they're pretty much on the same level as the prisoner, they just were smart enough not to get arrested. I have about as much sympathy for them as the prisoners.

If a good guard gets killed then even other inmates will speak out that they shouldn't have been killed. In those cases its sad.

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While I would generally agree with you, Silverstein also killed another inmate a few years prior to that and there was a 2nd guard killed the same day he killed a guard. So it was clearly orchestrated.

Dude's killed 2 people IN prison. Both were stabbed dozens of times.

I'm not sure where else you keep a guy like that outside of solitary. I'm pretty sure I read when he killed the guard, he was basically in Solitary confinement moving around the prison and was passed a shank from another inmate.