How many of those people had lifelong rap sheets and were facing enough time it was essentially life?
These are people who are at most facing a few years for participation in a riot. Doesn’t add up they’d be trying to suicide by corrections officer.
I've seen people who were in for misdemeanors (less than 366 days as a maximum punishment) behave that way.
In fact, lifers or long term inmates are usually more calm. More devious? Absolutely...but they know how to do time. That's a jail expression btw..."he knows how to do time."