The Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner, Burl Cain, publicly referred to himself as the incarcerated population’s “daddy.” Mississippi prisons hold tens of thousands of adults… many of them vulnerable, dependent on the state for food, water, medical care, and basic safety. This is not a parent-child relationship. This is a government agency with a constitutional duty to protect people in its custody. When the Commissioner of Corrections frames himself as a “daddy,” it signals a da