When I read a story like this one it reminds me of the old saying from the Havamal:

The sitters in the hall seldom know
The kin of the new-comer:
The best man is marred by faults,
The worst is not without worth.

From WYFF.com:

RIDGEVILLE, S.C. — Three inmates at a medium-security prison saved a female correctional officer who was being attacked by a convicted sex offender.

Authorities said that just after midnight on Friday, inmate George Salisbury cornered the officer in a dormitory control room at MacDougall Correctional Institution. The officer screamed for help, and three other inmates broke into the room that had been locked and overpowered Salisbury.

The three inmates assisted the officer who was transported to a hospital for treatment of her injuries.

Salisbury was transferred to Lieber Correctional Institution, a maximum security facility in Ridgeville.

Salisbury is serving a 15-year sentence that began in March 2001. He was convicted of criminal sexual conduct with a minor in Berkeley County.

Officials said Salisbury faces criminal charges in the attack on the officer.

I hope the three inmates who helped that officer get some time shaved off their sentences, or if that’s no possible maybe some extra commissary privileges.

The best translation of the Havamal, in my opinion, is done by Theosophist Elsa-Brita Titchenell in her book The Masks of Odin. Just in case you’d like to join in my pretentiousness.