Scenes from the U.S.A.'s Gulag

[Matariki]

Shameful, truely shameful. This is particularly for those folks who think people in prison are 'coddled' and for those misguided folks who like to make prison rape jokes.

http://dogobarrygraham.blogspot.com/2011/05/scenes-from-usas-gulag.html



Holding cells for prisoners awaiting a "mental-health crisis bed," Salinas Valley State Prison, July 2008. Writing for the majority in Brown v. Plata, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy stated, "Because of a shortage of treatment beds, suicidal inmates may be held for prolonged periods in telephone-booth sized cages without toilets…A psychiatric expert reported observing an inmate who had been held in such a cage for nearly 24 hours, standing in a pool of his own urine, unresponsive and nearly catatonic. Prison officials explained they had 'no place to put him.'" This photograph was appended to his decision.

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Well, we have to put those dangerous pot smokers somewhere, don't we?

Oh, I suppose you would just let them roam free.

[Matariki]

2. It amazes me that no one cares about this issue.

Or maybe the link and this topic was inadvertently a duplicate?