Colonel Mustard
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- Jun 18, 2023
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Sorry mate but that's just a total fantasy. Neither you nor I have any idea what the circumstances were but there is every chance that the officer "didn't do their job properly" not because they couldn't be bothered butIf the prison officer guarding Khalife didn't do their job properly just because they couldn't be bothered and wandered off to chat to their mate you would have a point. I don't know anything about the prison service (looks like Thunderbolt does though) but suspect the reality is more like this: The prison officer guarding Khalife also has to guard another inmate at the same time who's in a different location (due to understaffing at the prison). The officer has to do a "risk assessment" to decide which inmate is more likely to try to escape
because the inmate in question had won his trust. That's what happens. There's also the strong possibility that someone was bribed to look the other way. It's a very well known fact that most drugs get into prisons through prison officers. Trouble is of course, if you say that the officer is to blame because he's corrupt someone else will say "ah but he wouldn't be tempted if he was paid much more so the blame lies with the government". It goes round in circles with no one ever admitting it's their fault. It's quit possible that it's the government's fault for underfunding AND the fault of a corrupt officer AND the fault of an incompetent prison management. It's this need to blame 'the government' for everything that I find lazy and oversimplistic. Worse, it lets too many others off the hook.