No More Prisons
No More Prisons - The meeting place of all those interested in Billy Wimsatt's book or the Raptivism CD No More Prisons and the issues they discuss.Friday, January 04, 2002
A week-long trial begins Monday in a class-action lawsuit brought by more than 300 inmates over brutal conditions at the "Supermax" prison in Youngstown.
The case, filed on behalf of the inmates last January by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and the New-York based Center for Constitutional Rights, broadly challenges many
aspects of incarceration at the Ohio State Penitentiary, the only super maximum - "Supermax" -- security prison in the state.
"This prison was supposed to house the worst and most violent inmates in the state," said ACLU of Ohio Legal Director Raymond Vasvari, "but that seems never to have been the case. Who gets in, who stays in and for how long is all a matter of luck. That is more than unfair: it is unconstitutional."
The legal complaint is online at: http://www.aclu.org/court/wilkinson.pdf.
A news release on the filing of the case is online at:
http://www.aclu.org/news/2001/n010901b.html.
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