In my many years in corrections I have seen lots of assaults, and I can tell you one thing for sure
about the reasoning behind them. There is no good answer, and sometime the answer is there
is no reason. Sometimes the reason is beyond comprehension to "normal" people like us that use
our brains for reasoning, and critical thinking. I have been threatened for everything under the sun
never assaulted, but I'm sure if I wait long enough it will happen eventually. 17 years, and I have
seen assaults on staff for as little as telling an inmate what to do (completely professionally and by policy)
to looking at some psych patient the wrong way on the wrong day at the wrong time to the other end of the
spectrum where it involved the battle of a couple hard headed idiots officers, and inmates included.
No easy answer.