Thread by @JoshuaBHoe

Folks, when people who are incarcerated organize and demonstrate, it is almost always because conditions are so bad they have been left with no other option

I am not sure why the press always demonizes them, read history, most so-called "riots" are for legitimate greivances

Also, some timetake a gander at how impossible it is to get a court to recognize a cruel and unusual punishment case sometime....it is pretty much impossible.

Also, prisons are black boxes....a lot of bad things happen in the dark w/o accountability

If you haven't read, for instance, "Blood in the Water" by @hthompsn, you probably should...especially if your natural inclination was to assume it was unwarranted

For those who don't know....people in prison have a quasi-legal process they can follow to lodge greivances, but you have to work through multiple stages (taking years) before they move to a legitimate court....and they are usually denied at every turn

So, there are not a lot of avenues for redress and the ones that exist rarely find for people in prison....even when really ugly things are clearly happening.....and I think the current story is about a jail....which is usually even worse

For instance, when the Lee Riot in South Carolina happened, we found out within a few days how horrific the conditions had been....it almost always turns out there was a good reason

Oh, and the few really good jail house lawyers are generally moved around, in order to break up effectiveness by moving them away from their "clients" - so what legal options you do have are often suppressed too