Keeping a person naked in "the hole," a closet sized space, for 23 hours a day is clearly torture. It would be bad enough if done to a person in good mental health, who had committed a serious crime. According to the information from the petition circulators below, Jeremy Smith is neither. He is a paranoid schizophrenic with an IQ of 50-70 who got talked by a prosecutor into taking a plea deal that got him eight years in prison, for the crime of hitting another patient at a mental hospital, an assault that caused no lasting injury.
Also mentioned below, in passing: "Seven inmates reportedly died in this year in California prisons from tooth decay. Infection from their rotten teeth entered their bloodstreams and killed them." I didn't read about that in any of the police "crime blotter" entries in the papers, did you?
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Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))