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Crimes Against Us All

By Michael Blankenship

In 2005, when a federal court took a snapshot of California?s prisons, one inmate was dying each week because the state failed to provide adequate health care. Adequate does not mean state-of-the-art, or even tolerable. It means care meeting ?the minimal civilized measure of life?s necessities,? in the Supreme Court?s words, so inmates do not die from rampant staph infections or commit suicide at nearly twice the national average. Read more.... No society can refer to itself as civilized while allowing thousands of its citizens (yes inmates are citizens) to be treated in such a manner as described in California. But California is not alone in its mistreatment of inmates. Idaho has its own "gladiator academy" operated by the Corrections Corporation of America...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on December 06, 2010 (boomark / email).