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LA Times Op-Ed: The disaster before the disater at Chino

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Opinion: The disaster before the disaster at Chino The prison was once a model for a new era of enlightened criminal justice, but Californians' refusal to meet their fiscal and social responsibilities ruined that vision. By Volker Janssen August 15, 2009 For corrections experts, the riot at the California Institution for Men in Chino last weekend, which injured 175 prisoners and damaged or destroyed six dormitories, was a disaster that could have been predicted. In a state prison system bursting at the seams and teeming with racial tensions, such violence would seem to be inevitable. But in the case of Chino, this riot marks not just one more point in a seemingly endless history of prison violence; it is a sad contrast to the high expectations this prison invited at its opening in 1941...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 16, 2009 (boomark / email).