Prisoners Strike against Torture in California Prisons

[modernwriters]

The torture of prisoners in U.S. custody isn’t confined to foreign countries. For more than two weeks, inmates at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison have been on a hunger strike to protest torturous conditions in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) there. Prisoners have been held for years in solitary confinement, which can amount to torture. Thousands of inmates throughout California’s...
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[D2D]

So you would rather have violent prisoners in general population maiming and murdering other prisoners and guards?

[modernwriters]

The degree of civilisation of a country is measured by the treatment of it's prisoners.

[D2D]

So you would rather have violent prisoners in general population maiming and murdering other prisoners and guards?
 
Answer the question!

[modernwriters]

Nothing justifies inhuman treatment of captured. You can repeat your mantra till the cow comes home.

[D2D]

Answer the question!
 
So you would rather have violent prisoners in general population maiming and murdering other prisoners and guards?

[ttopcat]

Well if these inmates are so dangerous they need to be held in solitary on continueous basis...my guess is the prison system has no other choice.

[upyrwazoo]

ACTUALLY THEY WENT ON A HUNGER STRIKE OVER THE QUALITY OF THE FOOD!!! BFD SCREW THEM IF THEY HADN'T SCREWED UP THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO EAT THE FOOD IN PRISON!!!

[Jtopp]

Well there are people all around the world that have little or no food. They have no bed, not a roof over their heads...these people are living in a war zone because of the actions of a military over throw etc.