Just an experiment:

Raise your hand if you think the “lesser” forms of abuse (the ones this jerk makes light of in his apologia) are not part of accepted daily practice at every prison, adult or juvenile, but especially (for this sake of this debate) the latter, in the US prison-industrial complex.

Now, ask yourself: At what point, at what age, at what degree of “delinquency” does it go from being abuse to being standard operating procedure? And at what point, at what age, at what degree of “delinquency” does it become acceptable, or even something “they” deserve?

Where do we draw the line between victims and miscreants?

And at what point do we begin to feel like hypocrites?