The U.S. Supreme Court just told California to reduce its overcrowding and stop messing around. Almost immediately, Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard met, in the flesh, with activists. activists have represented the hunger-strike inmates for 3 long weeks but not seen Mr. Beard, who may have been busy with the severely overcrowded cells. But he attended the meeting and heard suggestions from people who are in touch with the strikers and who offered common-sense solutions to the inhumane limitless solitary confinement.
See pigs flying by?
The U.S. Supreme Court just told California to reduce its overcrowding and stop messing around. Almost immediately, Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard met, in the flesh, with activists. activists have represented the hunger-strike inmates for 3 long weeks but not seen Mr. Beard, who may have been busy with the severely overcrowded cells. But he attended the meeting and heard suggestions from people who are in touch with the strikers and who offered common-sense solutions to the inhumane limitless solitary confinement.