October 15, 2007
Judicial Jackassery - Monday morning edition
The black-robed poltroons of California's Central District have opined in Thomas v. Baca that making L.A. County's inmates sleep on the floor -- on mattresses! -- constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, a violation of the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
No word yet on the constitutionality of denying prisoners La-Z-Boy Recliners, down comforters and 400-thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets.
Posted by Mike Lief at October 15, 2007 08:32 AM
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So which of the life-tenured social engineers did this? I couldn't tell from your blog or Volokh's.
Posted by: Ecmarm at October 16, 2007 09:42 AM
Looks like it was Dean Pregerson.
Posted by: Mike Lief at October 16, 2007 11:01 AM
Maybe I could sue the US Navy for cruel and unusual punishment for all the times we had to sleep on the steel deck because we weren't allowed to go to the rack, despite being sleep deprived for 48+ hours.
Posted by: sonarman at October 16, 2007 06:53 PM
Carrying on Harry's lib-on-the-bench legacy, I see.
Posted by: Ecmarm at October 17, 2007 05:20 AM
I have been on search warrants at the homes of persons about to be incarcerated, and they are the luckiest one in the house if they have a mattress to sleep on to create some distance from the cockroaches. I guess we have to provide them better treatment than they provide themselves. That makes alot of sense.
Posted by: Thin Ice, Sr. at October 18, 2007 05:45 AM