Wednesday, February 23, 2005
supremes strike again
This has been around on the radio today but not on the MSM teevee news that I've noticed.
Justices Knock California Prison Segregation
Damn. Just damn.
Gainesville college student raped while serving weekend jail sentence
I was looking for the followup of this particular case as it was a "honeymoon shot", local, and published. There are so many of those (an old friend was a prison guard) that will never go beyond the walls. The 19 year old "deliverer of demon weed" (not merchant) is screwed worse than that article presented. Jackson, the multiple rapist, was large, black, and had AIDS. Must be wonderful to go in to serve the first part of one's weekend sentence, get tossed in a cell with a Tyson with AIDS, wind up with a tore-up rectum and find out one has been dosed with a death sentence.
A few weeks ago I read a very interesting book. Didn't buy it for myself but decided to read it. A buck at a flea market and the title fit her literature profile. ""Mind Hunter" by John Douglas, the "father" of FBI profiling. Out-bloody-standing. He kept most of his personal feelings out of the book but really wasn't very successful. There is only one "rehab" for sexual predators and serial killers. Jail ain't it.
Justices Knock California Prison Segregation
By David G. Savage
Times Staff Writer
2:57 PM PST, February 23, 2005
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today all but overturned California's unique prison policy of segregating new inmates by race, declaring that the practice must come to a halt unless state officials can show it is the only way to maintain safety and security in the nation's largest prison system.
The 5-3 decision stopped just short of saying the state was violating the Constitution's ban on racial segregation by the government.
"We rejected the notion that separate can ever be equal … 50 years ago in Brown vs. Board of Education, and we refuse to resurrect it today," said Justice Sandra Day O'Connor for the court.
Send that little white girl to jail for a few days. It's quite an "education".
However, she left open the option for prison officials to separate known gang members or violent individuals from other inmates.
The ruling casts doubt on a 25-year-old California prison policy that was said to be one-of-a-kind in the nation. Bush administration lawyers joined the case on the side of Garrison S. Johnson, a black inmate, and together they argued that the segregation policy was unneeded and unconstitutional. The federal prison system prohibits racial discrimination among inmates, they said.
Bush administration lawyers? Send them and him to jail for a few days. Trust me, they'll get over it quick as a bunny. They'll also hope that AZT will work on the version of HIV acquired.
"I'm elated right now," said Johnson, housed at Corcoran State Prison near Fresno, when informed of the ruling. "It's still sinking in."
He was sent to prison in 1987 for murder, robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, and since then, he has been transferred to five facilities. On each occasion, Johnson said he was put in a cell with another black inmate.
A decade ago, he filed his own lawsuit contending that the segregation policy violated his constitutional rights.
Damn. Poor bastard didn't get enough whitey ass to cornhole. Glad to see the murderous psyco has a true friend in airhead O'Connor.
Los Angeles lawyer Bert H. Deixler took up Johnson's case, and despite a series of setbacks in the courts in California, he appealed to the Supreme Court.
"The impact of this decision will be to end the disgraceful practice of racial segregation in the California prisons," he said. "You can look at gang membership as a basis for special treatment, but you can't look at people coming off the bus and say, 'Blacks go through that door and whites go through the other door'."
State prison officials said today they were not ready to abandon the policy. (snip)
Damn. Just damn.
Gainesville college student raped while serving weekend jail sentence
Associated Press
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A college student jailed on marijuana charges was raped by his cell mate who was already being held on sexual battery charges, authorities said.
The 19-year-old student was serving four weekends in jail on charges of delivering marijuana, said Alachua County Sheriff's Sgt. Jim Troiano.
His cell mate held a ball point pen to the teenager's neck Friday night, his first weekend of the sentence, and then forced himself on him, Troiano said. A member of the victim's family reported the rape to authorities.
Randolph Jackson, 35, was charged with sexual battery. Jackson has been in jail since July on charges of sexual battery in a different case that is still pending. (snip)
I was looking for the followup of this particular case as it was a "honeymoon shot", local, and published. There are so many of those (an old friend was a prison guard) that will never go beyond the walls. The 19 year old "deliverer of demon weed" (not merchant) is screwed worse than that article presented. Jackson, the multiple rapist, was large, black, and had AIDS. Must be wonderful to go in to serve the first part of one's weekend sentence, get tossed in a cell with a Tyson with AIDS, wind up with a tore-up rectum and find out one has been dosed with a death sentence.
A few weeks ago I read a very interesting book. Didn't buy it for myself but decided to read it. A buck at a flea market and the title fit her literature profile. ""Mind Hunter" by John Douglas, the "father" of FBI profiling. Out-bloody-standing. He kept most of his personal feelings out of the book but really wasn't very successful. There is only one "rehab" for sexual predators and serial killers. Jail ain't it.
