This just broke around 8:30 p.m. Pacific Time. Only the New York Times has a story up so maybe other outlets are waiting to hear developments. What’s known is that Derek Chausin was stabbed in prison in Arizona.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that an inmate at the Tucson prison was stabbed at 12:30 p.m., though the agency’s statement did not identify Mr. Chauvin, 47, by name. No other inmates or prison staff were injured, and the situation was quickly contained, according to the people familiar with the situation.
Emergency medical technicians “initiated lifesaving measures” before transporting the inmate to a local hospital “for further treatment and evaluation,” bureau officials wrote in a statement. No details were immediately available on his condition, but one of the people with knowledge of the incident said that Mr. Chauvin survived the attack.
Mr. Chauvin was serving a sentence of just over two decades in federal prison after he was convicted of state murder charges and a federal charge of violating the constitutional rights of Mr. Floyd. Mr. Chauvin’s lawyers did not respond to requests for comment.
If they didn’t identify Chauvin by name, there is presumably a prison number or something to justify the release of this story. We will post updates here as they become available.
I can only surmise that prison is not an easy place for a dirty cop to be.
The whole point of imprisonment is to deprive you of your liberty and rehabilitate your behavior, as well as keep society safe from you. Imprisonment itself is the punishment, there should not be further cruelties imposed on inmates in a civilized country.
But the way prisoners are treated in American prisons and exposed to dangers in them breaches many internationally accepted norms of human rights. Further transgressions of human rights in American prisons draw direct comparison with the worst despot’s practices in third world countries.
It is well past time that America’s prison practices and treatment of inmates is taken out of the 18th century and brought into the 21st. Perhaps then, America’s recidivist crime rate would be nearer that of actual first world countries, which is far, far lower leading to a safer society for everyone.
I saw a list of 25 of the worst prisons in the world and it contained the usual suspects.
The only countries that had more than one prison in the list were Russia, North Korea, and the USA. You are known by the company you keep.
I am very surprised chauvin wasn’t kept in solitary for his own protection. His life is not worth diddly in prison because he’s an ex-cop. I can only imagine there is a pool going in that prison for who is going to kill him first. If they keep in in the general population he’s a goner.
It will be interesting to see which gang is responsible. I would have assumed the Aryan Brotherhood and the other white supremacists would have considered him a hero and thus protect his pasty arse.
Not that using a shank on him is acceptable, but it is hard for me to.muster much sympathy for him. I don’t know that he is a dirty cop, but he surely is a racist.
Comment from Reddit: Black Knives Matter!
I see he’s making new friends everywhere.