Tuesday, September 29, 2009
This is unAmerican
EDITOR:
I read an article in The Vindicator that I can’t get out of my mind (16 fired or disciplined for death of Arizona inmate). It was about the unnecessary, horrible death of a 48-year-old woman suffered in the Phoenix, Ariz., prison. It state that she was put in an outdoor holding cell (a cage) for four hours in triple-digit heat. They call it a wait0-them-out practice.
There was no cover for shade, and I cannot imagine the agony this poor woman endured.
The policy was to only be left out for a two hour limit.
I could say much more, but my last comment is that the guard who walked her to that outdoor cell and cocked her in there and walked away — I’m sure he went into an air conditioned building.
This is something that I cannot begin to understand, how this could happen within a society of educated people. There is no place in society — in America — for this kind of thing.
SANDY TOMLIN
Youngstown