So his life-threatening stabbing by another inmate last week, just two years into his term, was an appalling failure of American systems and institutions of justice. The assault took place at a medium-security federal prison in Arizona, where Chauvin was transferred in August 2022 after being held in a Minnesota state prison. Chauvin forfeited his right to liberty when he snuffed out Floyd ’s life during the final hours of Memorial Day Weekend 2020. Should a murderous police officer like Chauvin feel safer in prison than Floyd was on the street? Prisons in which people are brutalized, killed and abused have no place in a civilized society.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 01, 2023 12:26 UTC