[unnouinceput]

Do jails kill people? No. Jail is a tool. People kill people.

[vertex-four]

Jails are a system in which people operate, and how that system is designed lacks accountability and encourages guards to kill people.

The people within that system have responsibility for how they behave, yes, but as long as the system continues to exist the behaviour will as well.

[techbio]

They're not really people, they are officers acting in official capacity, ie. agents of a state.

They are, as people, often immune from legal consequences for their actions.

Would they behave the same way otherwise?

https://reason.org/commentary/privatization-qualified-immuni...

[gerbilly]

Jails do harm and even kill people.

Jails and prisons inflict violence daily on the inmates, and even the guards and staff, just from the very nature of the situation they create.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence

[nkrisc]

People don't kill people. Loss of oxygenation of the brain kills people.