[107555] in Cypherpunks
Re: BoP Rules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Broiles)
Sat Jan 16 22:10:48 1999
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 19:04:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <199901162154.QAA08384@camel7.mindspring.com>
Reply-To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, John Young wrote:
> We offer copies of the forms the Federal Bureau of
> Prisons uses to inform inmates of rules on reading
> their mail, monitoring their telephone calls, and controlling
> their money, courtesy of CJ. With a couple of his Inmate
> Requests to get out of The Hole (TM) and to have the
> "SHU Phone Punishment Rules" lifted.
>
> http://jya.com/cej-bpforms.htm
>
> What's SHU?
In the California state prison system, SHU means "Security Housing Unit",
and is the most restrictive/"secure" level of imprisonment - it's intended
to deny the prisoners any sort of human contact, either as punishment, or
because the prisoners have historically tended to be violent/uncooperative
when dealing with the guards.
See <http://www.ncal.verio.com/~lazlo/index.html> for anti-SHU propaganda,
or <http://surf.com/~lazlo/Madrid_intro.html> for information on _Madrid
v. Gomez_, federal litigation re the conditions/operations of California's
new Pelican Bay SHU. I haven't read _Madrid_ in a few years, but the
summary mentioned above says that SHU-like conditions may violate the 8th
Amendment when imposed on an inmate with mental conditions which may be
aggravated by the isolation or lack of contact.
I don't know how similar the conditions described above are to what Toto
is experiencing.
--
Greg Broiles
gbroiles@netbox.com
