The infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger did not deserve to be bludgeoned to death by a padlock. Jeffrey Epstein deserved supervision that would have prevented his suicide by hanging. And hundreds of prisoners around the country deserved a form of custody that would have prevented them being numbered among the scores of thousands of fentanyl overdose victims.
I’m not a bleeding heart by any means. In my opinion, Whitey Bulger should have been put to death years ago. But by legal means. As it was, he was meant to serve out the rest of his life in prison. And in prison he deserved special protections because he was under a special threat: Prisoners are known to murder federal informers — rats — like Bulger.
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