California Expands 24 Hour Lockdowns
By Jeralyn, Section Inmates and Prisons
Posted on Thu Jun 05, 2003 at 05:54:35 PM EST
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Posted on Thu Jun 05, 2003 at 05:54:35 PM EST
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We find this reprehensible. California is expanding the use of 24 hour lockdowns in prisons--as a cost-cutting measure.
The state's financially strapped corrections department is prohibiting inmates from leaving their cells at three prisons in an attempt to reduce overtime pay for guards and is considering further cost-saving restrictions at most of the system's 32 institutions, according to the chairwoman of the state Senate committee that oversees prisons.
The ACLU says the policy is unconstitutional but has no plans to sue. Too bad.
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