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Investigative report indicates California's prisoner rights poorly regarded

By Douglas A. Berman

A helpful reader altered me to this lengthy article from the Sacremento Bee, headlined "The Public Eye: California prisoners' rights often trampled," that reports on how guards have abused prisoners through disciplinary hearings.  The piece, which ran on Sunday's front page, also included the graphic (reprinted here) with lots of interesting data on charges against prisoners in five of the larger states in the nation.  Here is how the Sacremento Bee report gets started: The prison official assured his warden in an e-mail that everything was set: A group of 77 inmates accused of interfering with officers would be found guilty, no matter what. Disciplinary hearings ? required proceedings where inmates can defend themselves with witnesses and evidence ? had not yet taken place at North Kern State Prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 02, 2010 (boomark / email).