Right! Because that works so well!
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Prison strikes have already been happening, BTW. The prison authorities try to hide them as much as possible, and the corporate media ignores them.
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I have a very bad feeling about this.
ETA: Seriously, a very bad feeling. Trump’s call to auto deport without trial is enough of a token gesture his administration and supporters can claim, “Well it’s not our fault they died. We tried to deport them but the liberal dem establishment wouldn’t let us. The blood is on their hands.”
All this while innocent people are murdered (intentionally or from negligence) and millions of taxpayer dollars are stuffed into the hands of private prison industry contractors, using the US Military to legitimize funds and insulate contractors from any scrutiny.
This is some bad shit.
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If you cannot provide housing for those you choose to detain which meets the minimum standards set forth by our laws, you do not toss them in bad conditions with the excuse “we have to put them somewhere” because no, you do not. You do not have to break the law in order to enforce it. Your other option is to follow the law yourself and let your prisoners go because peoples rights and protections under our laws supercede your right to lock people up for a misdemeanor offence.
I’d like to take this opportunity to say once again that depriving a person of their freedom over an act of mala-prohibita is not something a modern or just society does.
Predictably:
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It’s up to the judges who send people to prison to put an end to it. Since these judges know the prisons do not meet constitutional standards for incarceration, these judges are aware that sending a person to prison constitutes cruel and unusual punishment therefore prison is not a valid or legal option for sentencing judges should be allowed to use. The fact is, it is judges who are directly violating the laws of the land by issuing sentences which will inflict undue harm upon people convicted of a crime.
These class action lawsuits however are directed not at the judges who are ultimately responsible for the number of people in jails and the lengthy sentences they must endure. Simply put, judges don’t have the kind of money these class action lawyers are looking to earn so they file against the prisons rather than the people who are the root of the cause and are the people responsible for knowingly sentencing people to illegal and unconstitutional punishment. Nope, these class action lawyers go after the prisons because that’s where the money, if not the justice, is to be found.
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