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| Powderkeg in a Prison |
| By scpr.org |
| Published: 09/18/2009 |
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I just posted the unedited version of my Off-Ramp interview with Joe Domanick about his long, fascinating, and frankly depressing Los Angeles Magazine article about the state's prison problem, using the state prison in Lancaster as a microcosm of what's gone wrong and getting worse. Two things have always stood out to me in reporting on prisons and prisoners in my 27 years as a journalist. -- First, prisoners and prison officials, if not politicians, agree that incarcerating someone is the punishment, and further punishment for the original crime is not supposed to happen behind bars. That is to say, experts agree that prison rape, bad health care, and crowding are not acceptable inside prison, no matter how bad the crime. Read More. |
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