I can only hope some one in VA jails like Chesapeake force them to get more bunks
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This happens everywhere. And yeah, it's cruel & unusual, so thank God this was deemed unconstitutional. Wonder if anything will change? I doubt it.
So sleeping on the floor in jail or prison is "cruel and unusual" punishment, but if you are a sex offender and made to sleep in a tent by a riverbed or under a bridge, that is not? Sounds like more double-standard BS to me.
09/24/2007 LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has ruled that forcing county jail inmates to sleep on the floor to relieve overcrowding is unconstitutional.
U.S District Judge Dean D. Pregerson said in a ruling released Friday that jail officials violated inmates' right to protection from cruel and unusual punishment, and were guilty of "deliberate indifference" for failing to provide them with bunks.
"This is quite an extraordinary ruling," said attorney Stephen Yagman, who represented prisoners involved in a class-action lawsuit. "I've never seen anything like it."
Attorney Paul B. Beach, who represented the county in the lawsuit, did not immediately respond to a telephone message left seeking comment early Monday by The Associated Press. He declined comment to the Los Angeles Times on Sunday.
Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said the practice of having inmates sleep on the floor "is over, and has been for a while now."
- Yeah right! I'll believe that when I see it. You could probably walk into any jail or correctional facility and find this right now.
The lawsuit covers inmates who were forced to sleep on the floor from December 2000 to May 2005. Yagman said Sunday that he had two other class-action cases involving inmates who were allegedly forced to sleep on floors from May 2005 to as recently as this year.
View the article hereThis happens everywhere. And yeah, it's cruel & unusual, so thank God this was deemed unconstitutional. Wonder if anything will change? I doubt it.
So sleeping on the floor in jail or prison is "cruel and unusual" punishment, but if you are a sex offender and made to sleep in a tent by a riverbed or under a bridge, that is not? Sounds like more double-standard BS to me.
09/24/2007 LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has ruled that forcing county jail inmates to sleep on the floor to relieve overcrowding is unconstitutional.
U.S District Judge Dean D. Pregerson said in a ruling released Friday that jail officials violated inmates' right to protection from cruel and unusual punishment, and were guilty of "deliberate indifference" for failing to provide them with bunks.
"This is quite an extraordinary ruling," said attorney Stephen Yagman, who represented prisoners involved in a class-action lawsuit. "I've never seen anything like it."
Attorney Paul B. Beach, who represented the county in the lawsuit, did not immediately respond to a telephone message left seeking comment early Monday by The Associated Press. He declined comment to the Los Angeles Times on Sunday.
Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said the practice of having inmates sleep on the floor "is over, and has been for a while now."
- Yeah right! I'll believe that when I see it. You could probably walk into any jail or correctional facility and find this right now.
The lawsuit covers inmates who were forced to sleep on the floor from December 2000 to May 2005. Yagman said Sunday that he had two other class-action cases involving inmates who were allegedly forced to sleep on floors from May 2005 to as recently as this year.
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