The first inmate who was assigned to me was a better person than I have ever been in my life. I believe that she was here because the Admiral recognized that the life she had been left to was unjust, and that she deserved a chance at something better. However... I did not know how to help her, Comrade. To my mind, she was a hero, and there was nothing at all that I could have wanted to change.
There also have been bad wardens, Brother, in fact, there was a time when wardens on the whole were held entirely unaccountable for their actions, and controlled the inmates through whatever means necessary. The Majority of them were still good people, but they were good people who... saw injustice, and looked away. Mistakes were made, and things changed, but the wardens have never become... singular in their approaches, Comrade.
It's less that they are good and the inmates are bad, and more that we all exist on the same spectrum. The difference is, that inmates require guidance and help, a second chance, and wardens accept responsibility. As long as a warden can fulfill their responsibility to their inmate and do no harm, then how good or bad they are is less important.
And finally, Comrade, in theory when you graduate you are ready to take your second chance. Whether that is on the Barge, serving as a warden, or finishing something back where you came from, or on another world entirely. Graduation means that your inmate should be ready to make that choice, and to make the right choice.
I think there are many inmates who would have been extremely bad wardens, had they remained on the barge, however, none of them chose to stay after they graduated.
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Date: 2012-05-25 12:01 am (UTC)There also have been bad wardens, Brother, in fact, there was a time when wardens on the whole were held entirely unaccountable for their actions, and controlled the inmates through whatever means necessary. The Majority of them were still good people, but they were good people who... saw injustice, and looked away. Mistakes were made, and things changed, but the wardens have never become... singular in their approaches, Comrade.
It's less that they are good and the inmates are bad, and more that we all exist on the same spectrum. The difference is, that inmates require guidance and help, a second chance, and wardens accept responsibility. As long as a warden can fulfill their responsibility to their inmate and do no harm, then how good or bad they are is less important.
And finally, Comrade, in theory when you graduate you are ready to take your second chance. Whether that is on the Barge, serving as a warden, or finishing something back where you came from, or on another world entirely. Graduation means that your inmate should be ready to make that choice, and to make the right choice.
I think there are many inmates who would have been extremely bad wardens, had they remained on the barge, however, none of them chose to stay after they graduated.