Why has our prison system become so dysfunctional, since Pete Wilson was our Governor? Is there a correlation to this and his ban on medias ability to go in to these institutions? Why do you the media sit and take this ban when so many injustices are perpetrated?
Only 10 percent are violent criminals, others are there for technical probation or parole violations, nonviolent crimes, or those with the lack of funds to fight their cases; accepting plea bargains with the threat of outrageous sentences over their heads.
They all live with disease-ridden unsanitary filthy conditions, minimal provision of food (barely enough to keep from starving), contaminated water, brutality and inhumane practices, servitude to provide cheap labor for major corporations, unnecessary deaths due to the lack of proper medical care, all of which services are provided at exorbitant costs paid by us the tax payers.
Is it because too many of our media outlets are owned by these same major corporations who make millions if not billions on these modern day slaves? Where is the accountability? Its time that the media wake up and fight for your rights to go back into these facilities and report the truth.
Annette Scofield, Irvine
