Do the guards stick around during the day or just leave him there? I honestly don't know what I'd do, whether I'd kick up a stink or just chill and assume that the guards have the situation under control. Impossible one for me to answer until faced with it in reality, I think

Reading the article, it looks like he's served most of his insanely short prison sentence, so this is part of his rehabilitating back into the real world after he's released. It does seem sick that a person's life is worth so little it is exchanged for less than a decade inside. When I was little, it was minimum 25 years for murder as I remember, and even then I didn't understand why that was called 'life'.

Let us know how you get on with your NIMBY campaign if you start one, although something's telling me that this shouldn't become a head-hunt. What have the other students said, and did this slip out unintentionally or was there a big announcement to the class?