The answer to prison overcrowding (Los Angeles: houses, gated, live in)

[Curmudgeon]

Let the inmates take care of it themselves. Encourage them. Support them in their effort.

Hunger strike at Pelican Bay State Prison spreads | 89.3 KPCC

[Majin]

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[Surftown831]

I consider myself a moderate liberal but this is where the liberals go too far, supporting criminals like these. To get to Pelican Bay you have to have an impressive record of violence in California state prisons. Then, once in Pelican Bay, to get sent to the SHU, which is the isolated unit, you have to have been violent or instigated violence or ordered violence while at Pelican Bay. Many of these violent acts are done to prison guards. To get the SHU at Pelican Bay you have proven to be an extreme danger to other human beings. Now they want to protest to get released back into population? And the ultra-liberals want to support that? Just lock some of these protesters in a prison cell with these guys for a week and they will change their mind.

[Fontucky]

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[augusto29556]

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[NinaN]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Let the inmates take care of it themselves. Encourage them. Support them in their effort.

Hunger strike at Pelican Bay State Prison spreads | 89.3 KPCC

I'm so with you on this. I'm pretty liberal about many things, but this isn't one of them.

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

If these guys have all that time on their hands then place them in their 6 X 10 cell and make them work. Give them a job that they can do while in their cell. And when they get out for their 90 minutes of outside time give them a job to do.

As for food, you take everything that they are going to eat that day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You place it in a blender and mix it all together and then you pour it in three containers and give it to them that way, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. If they want something to drink you give them water from the tap.

These are prisoners they have no rights. They deserve no rights, and if they want to go on a hunger strike good for them.

[Curmudgeon]

Complete with a short paragraph from the pages of the "Who Cares?" journal!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/

L.A. NOW

Southern California -- this just in

About 1,600 inmates continued to take part in a hunger strike protesting conditions in the state prison system’s maximum-security isolation units, down significantly from the peak of roughly 6,600 strikers over the July 4 weekend, said Terry Thornton, a spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Meantime, about 60 people converged on a sidewalk outside the Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles, shouting and raising signs of support for the strikers, even though the jail is not part of the state-run system affected by the hunger strike.

"The conditions are deplorable, the worst a human being can live in,” said Victor Amaya, who said his son Alex Amaya, 24, incarcerated at Pelican Bay State Prison for attempted murder and currently in an isolation unit, is among the strikers. “These men have done bad things in their lives, but the way they are treating them is completely inhumane.”

The protest started July 1 at the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay, a prison near the Oregon border that houses some of the state’s most hard-core offenders. The isolation units there -- part of a trio of such units statewide -- are reserved for prisoners considered to be extremely violent, many of them with gang ties. The units have cells that are windowless and soundproof, to limit inmate communication. Prisoners are released for about an hour a day so they can walk freely in a small area with high concrete walls.

Inmates involved in the strike have a number of complaints, including a need for better food, warmer clothes and improved educational opportunities.

Thornton noted that the strike has remained nonviolent and that inmates are being monitored by prison doctors. She also said prison officials are maintaining “an open dialogue” with the protesters.

Of the state’s 33 prisons, eight currently have striking inmates, down from a high of 13, Thornton said.

[SunJoaquin]

A lot of these PRISONERS are INHUMANE - that's why they were slated for this prison!!!!

Personally I would like to see another Alcatraz out in the waters.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by SunJoaquin

A lot of these PRISONERS are INHUMANE - that's why they were slated for this prison!!!!

Personally I would like to see another Alcatraz out in the waters.

Preferably one that takes on water!