It’s nice when a major news outlet covers stories about the prison complex.  This story is even better:  the author looks at causes of the current, wide-spread hunger strike throughout the California prison system, and concludes conditions must be really, really bad or men and women wouldn’t risk what little freedom they have to help those being punished in solitary confinement.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/opinion/when-prisoners-protest.html?emc=eta1&_r=1&