Prison Riot in Cal.

[Danno 1,228]

The first Chuckle I got was when I saw them referring to Cell-Blocks as "Dormitories" .... Sure it's another example of libs out of touch with reality.

Need a few more?

- They ended racial segregation, anyone who knows anything about Prison life knows what the outcome of this would be.

-3 judge panel ruled the State must reduce prison populations by a whopping 43,000 over the next two years.

(Thats 43 thousand criminals released...) wonder how many murders, rapes and other crimes to the good people of California, that will mean?

Dormitory burns down in Chino prison riot

By Joe Mozingo and Margot Roosevelt

August 10, 2009

A dormitory burned down and 55 inmates were taken to hospitals after a riot touched off by fighting among Latino and African American prisoners shut down a 1,300-man unit of the California Institution for Men in Chino on Saturday.

The riot erupted at 8:20 p.m. in the medium-security dormitory-style barracks of the Reception Center West and lasted until about midnight, according to corrections Lt. Mark Hargrove.

Prisoners ripped pieces of metal from lockers, destroyed beds and broke off pipes to use as weapons. A fire broke out during the chaos, burning down one dormitory. Most of the unit's barracks sustained so much damage as to be uninhabitable.

The disturbance was the prison's most violent since a December 2006 uprising in which 200 inmates rioted for 90 minutes. That racially charged incident was touched off by a fight between a Latino and an African American.

California's prisons, which hold 158,000 inmates, are the most crowded in the nation. Last week, a panel of three federal judges called conditions "appalling" and ruled that the state must shrink its prison population by nearly 43,000 inmates over the next two years to meet constitutional standards.

Following a 2005 Supreme Court decision that found automatic segregation to be illegal, Chino and other California prisons are moving away from the historic practice of separating inmates by race.

Inmates may now share cells with prisoners of different races. The barracks involved in the rioting had been fully integrated.

No guards were reported injured in Saturday's riot, prison officials said.

The fighting erupted in one barracks and quickly spread to six others.

"When you start rioting 200 in a unit, everyone knows it," Hargrove said.

At least 80 officers surrounded the barracks and ordered inmates to come out. Once the riot was quelled, they used pepper spray, batons and foam projectiles to remove inmates who had barricaded themselves inside.

By 7 a.m. Sunday, the barracks were clear. More than 250 inmates suffered injuries, including small cuts, serious stab wounds and head trauma, Hargrove said. By Sunday evening, 17 inmates remained hospitalized.

Some inmates were transferred to other units of the complex, which in all houses 5,911 prisoners.

All prisons in Southern California were put on lockdown as a result of the riot. Visitation was suspended until further notice.

On Sunday, investigators still were determining what caused the melee and what sparked the fire. They planned to inventory the weapons found at the scene.

The California Institution for Men opened in 1941 and serves as a reception center for parolees returning to custody and for newly committed male felons from several Southern California counties.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pr...0,2160318.story

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You're mad, Danno. Why is everything with you some sort of elaborate liberal conspiracy?

1. California is bankrupt.

2. The Governor couldn't get the state legislature or the voters to accept higher taxes to cover the shortfall.

3. Without additional revenues, the only thing that can be done, the absolute only thing, is to slash budgets and spending to the bone.

4. The prison system, being government funded is not immune to the cost cutting, nor was it targeted in order to avoid cuts in other areas (like education, which has also been decimated).

5. When you cut budgets in prisons, you're cutting back on things like workers hours, changing catering suppliers, rationing supplies and equipment. The prison system was overcrowded as it was. This is inevitably going to manifest somehow in terms of inmate unrest. And it did. Big surprise

[Jauque 1]

California's prisons, which hold 158,000 inmates, are the most crowded in the nation. Last week, a panel of three federal judges called conditions "appalling" and ruled that the state must shrink its prison population by nearly 43,000 inmates over the next two years to meet constitutional standards.

Since when are prisoners entitled to constitutional standards? This must be an American thing.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Hey. I am a great supporter of freedom of choice. The conservatives are the ones who try to remove that freedom from me.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Not this $hit again

[Ban Hammer 14,619]

Hey. I am a great supporter of freedom of choice. The conservatives are the ones who try to remove that freedom from me.

are you in jail?

[My Name Is Nobody 3]

Hey. I am a great supporter of freedom of choice. The conservatives are the ones who try to remove that freedom from me.

Is that why the conservsative are trying to keep big brother out of your health business??

I think you would make a good wing nut you just dont know it yet

[Nagishkaw 510]

I actually know someone in there.

[Danno 1,228]

Hey. I am a great supporter of freedom of choice. The conservatives are the ones who try to remove that freedom from me.

Care to share a few examples?

[Kathryn41 3,205]

racist comment and post quoting same removed.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Hey. I am a great supporter of freedom of choice. The conservatives are the ones who try to remove that freedom from me.

Is that why the conservsative are trying to keep big brother out of your health business??

I think you would make a good wing nut you just dont know it yet

I'm sure I would make a dandy wing nut engineer.

What will big bro do to my healthcare? Nothing. Just like you and your wingnut friends who make false assumptions.

Hey. I am a great supporter of freedom of choice. The conservatives are the ones who try to remove that freedom from me.

Care to share a few examples?

Freedom of choice such as abortion, gm foods, stem cell research.