> The end of solitary confinement for 16- to 17-year-olds, in particular, they say, has resulted in more violence, since they’ve lost the biggest consequences f

> The end of solitary confinement for 16- to 17-year-olds, in particular, they say, has resulted in more violence, since they’ve lost the biggest consequences for misbehavior. I don't sympathize. So what if the guards found their job easier when they could employ this method of psychological and physical torture (via neglect)? > And both inmates and officers think that a new generation of COs, many of whom have taken a substantial number of college courses, is less street-smart and thus less equipped to deal with the brutal realities of the job, and therefore more likely to clash with inmates. What an awfully polite way to say they don't want none of that book learnin round those parts. This isn't the first time I've heard this view expressed. A New York appeals Court actually upheld the legality of only hiring people with low IQs as cops. http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836 http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/sto... Were I a cop, knowing that I only had my job because I failed an IQ test would be a blow to my pride.