Viewing a prison crisis as a human rights abuse

I am please to see that Jonathan Simon is guest-blogging at PrawfsBlawg, where he gets started with this great post entitled “Golden State Guantanamo.”  Here is the heart of his start:

One of the least covered and most important areas of California’s socio-legal landscape is its bloated and inhumane prison system that now holds approximately 80,000 prisoners more than the 100,000 its 30+ prisons were designed to house. While Guantanamo has rightly been a subject of constant attention in the main stream media and the legal blogosphere, California’s prison crisis constitutes a human rights abuse of equal if not greater significance.

Simon has this new book entitled “Governing through Crime,” and this blog that goes by the same name.  Simon is great reading in all forms.