Correctional officers wielded godlike authority over detainees

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The situation was different with the correctional officers. They spoke to the inmates as if they were gods and the inmates a subhuman species. Rasha found them ignorant and abusive. They carried their authority like a truncheon. They walked around like Mack trucks shaking the highway, and they steamrolled over you like you were a fly stuck in hot tar. They yelled at you. They ignored you. They terrified you. Here the gods were the beasts. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 108