Steve Martin consults across the country on prison issues.  He is an expert with all the experience:  he’s been a guard, a lawyer, general counsel, and now activist.  And what he is saying is that prison policy must change to save the lives of guards.  It’s the right thing to do for inmates, too.   Return to a system where death-row inmates and those in solitary confinement can earn their way to rewards and even out of solitary.  These positive incentives help guards keep control and reward the Good Guys.  This makes so much sense that we have to wonder why it isn’t that way now.  Steve Martin will tell you in this essay:

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