The hunger-striking inmates are the worst troublemakers and the most dangerous criminals in the California prison system. Force-feed them? No, fuckem! Keep offering them their three squares and if they refuse to eat, let them starve!
TOP PRISON OFFICIAL TO SEEK COURT ORDERS TO FORCE-FEED HUNGER-STRIKING INMATES
LAPPL NewsWatch
July 20, 2011
More than 400 inmates in California prisons have refused food to protest what they call "inhumane" conditions in isolation units. Some of those inmates have not eaten for nearly three weeks; they risk permanent physical damage and death. The head of the state corrections department said Tuesday he'd force-feed inmates if necessary to save their lives. Prisoners in Security Housing Units spend 23 hours a day in their cells and one hour in a concrete exercise yard.
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The hunger-striking inmates don’t realize how good they’ve got it. Let me repeat how my Aussie friend Dorina Lisson described Asian and Middle Eastern prison conditions:
If you are unlucky enough to find yourself on the wrong side of the law and end up in an Asian or Middle Eastern prison, here is a sample of what to expect.
In these countries drug-traffickers are presented with the death penalty. If you are caught with 15 grams heroin, or more, it is a mandatory death sentence.
These countries make no legal distinction between 'soft' and 'hard' drugs. Harsh penalties for carrying illegal drugs can be severe, even for offences involving marijuana and alcohol.
Penalties include public executions to the sound of cheers, life in prison without parole, limb amputation, flogging and even torture.
Be prepared to share your prison cell with a bucket, at least a dozen cockroaches, some lice and a few rats. You will need to become accustomed to the aroma from the bucket (your toilet).
If you conform, prison officials will reward you with a lid for your bucket. If you refuse to conform to what is expected of you by authorities, you may be legally flogged.
Most prisons have small dormitory cells and can contain up to 20 prisoners with one large bucket for everyone to share.
A variety of contagious diseases and infections including hepatitis and HIV are plentiful. The local drinking water contains a natural potent laxative - diarrhea becomes a habit.
Every prisoner is allowed one cold shower (2-3 minutes max before the tap is turned off by prison staff) per week. Every prisoner is allowed clean underpants once only per week. If you soil your underpants you will have to sit in it.
The bed is usually a thin mat on the floor/ground, but do not assume you will get much sleep - those annoying mosquitoes keep buzzing in your ears and the rats have a bad habit of running over your face throughout the night.
As for the food ... you wouldn't feed it to a dog - the cockroaches look more appetizing!
1 comment:
I am a great believer in freedom of action by competent adults as long as their action (or inaction) does not harm others. As long as these inmates are mentally competent they should be allowed to starve. They are willing to risk their health and possibly their lives to make a political point. They should be allowed to do so. That is showing them the respect they deserve as adult human beings.
bob walsh
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