I always expected Jeffrey Dahmner to die rather quickly in prison. But, yes, I guess there were details. I didn’t expect refined sugar to be involved, however.
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Why did he kill the other guy, too?
bad lunch?
Hey, refined sugar’s bad stuff!
yeah, more than maybe I realized.
Meh, Twinkie defense.
I am not in favor of the death penalty, so Dahmer’s death by another prisoner solves the dilemma of me wishing him dead, dead, dead. After what he did to all those people, I’m glad he’s gone.
The prison controls everything about a prisoner’s life right? Is that what “being in custody” means?
The way the story is told sounds like the prison system carrying out a stochastic execution through f-up. Who the prisoner was is almost incidental. How much crap is in the base diet? How much is incarcerated anger a means of control and technique for increasing punishment? How much is the failure to observe proper procedures a way to deliver extra-judicial punishment.
There was lots more than just the sugar involved. But making a Twinkies defense is still suspect even when the state wanted Dahmer out of the way.
The closest I could find to scientific data; it’s still very early in understanding the results of high carbohydrate and sugar consumption. But a lot of people aren’t waiting for definitive studies; they are voting with their feet and putting pressure on school lunch programs and school snack machines. The issue has not gotten to prisons because, you know, that would be coddling criminals.
The article: Stephen Ilardi, Dietary Sugar and Mental Illness: Sugar and Mental Illness: A Surprising Link .
Dr. Ilardi, author of The Depression Cure and associate professor of psychology at the University of Kansas, is a clinical researcher specializing in the treatment of depression.