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Our Rotten Prisons

By Jonathan Simor

A Penitentiary-house, more particularly is ...what every prison might, and in some degree at least ought to be, designed at once as a place of safe custody, and a place of labour. Every such place must necessarily be, whether designed or not, an hospital -a place where sickness will be found at least, whether provision be or be not made for its relief. Jeremy BenthamThe Panopticon, Letter VII Penitentiary Houses-Safe Custody, 1787Whatever you think about the worth of imprisoning felons on the wholesale basis California has since the early 1980s, whether you consider yourself "tough on crime," or a "bleeding heart, blame it all on society" type, if you live in California you ought to be pissed off at the atrocious prisons the state built in the intervening decades...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on February 09, 2010 (boomark / email).