The warden in Shawshank Redemption — the one who used Andy Dufresne but punished him anyway — is beginning to look like a good guy as wardens go.
See Mistreatment of Prisoners Is Called Routine in U.S. in Saturday’s New York Times.
The experts also point out that the man who directed the reopening of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq last year and trained the guards there resigned under pressure as director of the Utah Department of Corrections in 1997 after an inmate died while shackled to a restraining chair for 16 hours. The inmate, who suffered from schizophrenia, was kept naked the whole time.