froggysangel
08-20-2004, 09:46 PM
Article Published: Friday, August 13, 2004
Overcrowded cells
http://www.thereporter.com/Stories/0,1413,295%257E30192%257E2332673,00.html?search=fi lter
Reporter Editor:
Thank you for addressing the issue of California's overcrowded prisons. Avenal State Prison houses two and a half times its intended capacity. Wall to wall bunk beds with flammable bedding would create a domino-effect inferno. This risk is acceptable to the California Department of Corrections.
On the other hand, the same department exercises a meticulous accuracy when keeping count in the visiting rooms. One person over the limit set by the fire marshal is cause for a family to be sent away, terminating the visit with their loved one early.
The message here is twofold: Visiting in the opinion of the Department of Corrections is superfluous, and secondly, the Department of Corrections considers the lives of "free people" of more value than the lives of our incarcerated loved ones. We family members beg to differ.
Rose Caragol, Lemoore
Overcrowded cells
http://www.thereporter.com/Stories/0,1413,295%257E30192%257E2332673,00.html?search=fi lter
Reporter Editor:
Thank you for addressing the issue of California's overcrowded prisons. Avenal State Prison houses two and a half times its intended capacity. Wall to wall bunk beds with flammable bedding would create a domino-effect inferno. This risk is acceptable to the California Department of Corrections.
On the other hand, the same department exercises a meticulous accuracy when keeping count in the visiting rooms. One person over the limit set by the fire marshal is cause for a family to be sent away, terminating the visit with their loved one early.
The message here is twofold: Visiting in the opinion of the Department of Corrections is superfluous, and secondly, the Department of Corrections considers the lives of "free people" of more value than the lives of our incarcerated loved ones. We family members beg to differ.
Rose Caragol, Lemoore