Prison inmates kept in solitary confinement deemed ‘cruel, degrading and inhuman’
‘The Edge of Endurance: Conditions in California’s Security Housing Units’ is a newly released report by Amnesty International that condemns the State of California for holding 3,000 inmates at Pelican Bay and Corcoran prisons in solitary confinement for no good reason. The left-wing organization based its accusations of cruel and inhumane treatment on stories told by inmates, former inmates and their parents, wives and siblings, hardly reliable sources of information.
Amnesty International has a long history of sticking its nose into America’s business, especially when it comes to its strong stand against the death penalty.
Bob Walsh says: “If those detained there acted more like human beings the issue would not come up. Prisons will continue to be unpleasant places until we start incarcerating a better class of people.”
Here is Jeff ‘Paco’ Doyle’s response to the AI’s accusations of cruel and inhumane punishment for ‘minor’ rule infractions:
FRIDAY FOLLIES: LEFTIST CLAP-TRAP FOR YOUR PERUSAL
By Jeff ‘Paco’ Doyle
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
October 19, 2012
Excerpts from September 27 Amnesty International press release:
__Three thousand prisoners in two California prisons are being held in solitary confinement under “cruel, degrading and inhuman” conditions that violate international standards, Amnesty International said today based on exclusive access to Pelican Bay and Corcoran state prisons. In a new report, the human rights organization said California is holding prisoners in extreme isolation – with no fresh air, natural light, direct human contact or programs – for years and even decades, and leaving them with little hope of ever emerging from the confinement.
__Amnesty International researchers interviewed prisoners in solitary confinement in the two prisons, many former prisoners held in isolation, as well as parents, wives and siblings of current prisoners, including one who staged a hunger strike to protest conditions.
__Prisoners are confined for relatively minor infractions of rules or disruptive behavior, despite the fact that isolation is intended only for extreme cases.
As we all know, the Agency [CDCR] does, in fact, “place prisoners in isolation only as a last resort when dangerous behavior threatens the safety of other prisoners.” However, the folks at AI never read a convict’s tale they didn’t take for gospel. Thus, if the boys of Pelican Bay’s “Short Corridor Collective” say they are being persecuted the, by gum, that’s what is happening.
As one who regularly reads the racist rants of these monsters at SF Bayview, America’s premiere Afro-Centrist Race Rag, Paco is all too familiar with the twisted logic and contortions of truth the “Short Corridor Collective” feeds the racist appetites of SF Bayview readers.
But let us recall, Cocoran SHU and Pelican Bay SHU were constructed precisely because CDC had a large population of incorrigible shot callers and dangerous nutters desperately in need of segregation. We don’t place offenders there, as the would be victims of SHU claim, to “put down” the silly pan-African sentiments of black racists. Rather, they are actively involved in organized criminality within the system – their racist views and affinity for spelling with the letter “k” for no apparent reason are merely ancillary to their illicit conduct.
And so, Paco pronounces the AI report a sham, as is to be expected from the advance guard of the New World Order, Amnesty International.
2 comments:
Prisons will continue to be unpleasant places until were start incarcerating a better class of people.
"No direct human contact?" Not sure where that one came from.
During my career I worked at both Corcoran SHU and the "short corridor" SHU at Pelican Bay. A good number of these inmates are double celled. all (except a very few deemed extremely assaultive) are in cells with perforated fronts. They freeley converse with one another, and they can see out and communicate through the front of these cells as officers do their counts, provide them with meals, and perform other routine daily tasks.
Don't get me wrong. The SHU ain't no joke. But the inmnates housed there are hardly isolated from human contact. They ARE isolated from the rest of the prison community. This is because they manipulate, extort, terrorize, and sometimes kill other inmates and staff.
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