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NY Times Editorial: The Chino Prison Riot

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Editorial: The Chino Prison Riot The New York Times Published: August 10, 2009 Around 200 inmates were injured, 55 seriously, over the weekend in an 11-hour prison riot in California that appears to have had strong racial overtones. Officials are still investigating, but a major cause is already clear: 5,900 men were being held in a facility designed for 3,000. The violence should serve as a warning to officials across the country not to try to balance state budgets by holding inmates in inhumane conditions. California has already ignored too many warnings. In 2007, a state oversight agency declared that ?California?s correctional system is in a tailspin.? That same year, a prison expert warned that the California Institution for Men in Chino, the site of the recent riot, was ?a serious disturbance waiting to happen...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).