One Dead, 46 Injured in Pitchess Prison Riot

The Signal (Santa Clarita Valley, CA) ^ | 2/5/06 | Josh Premako Signal Staff Writer

[RLM]

One inmate was killed and nearly 50 were injured in a race riot Saturday afternoon at North County Correctional Facility in Castaic that may have been sparked by a feud between rival gang members, authorities said. The melee — which was quelled in about an hour — broke out around 3:20 p.m., and was contained primarily to two dormitory areas at the prison, the population of which is approximately 60 percent Latino and 30 percent black, said Sheriff Lee Baca.................... In order to maintain some semblance of order, he said as of Saturday he was segregating all black and Latino inmates, flying in the face of a February 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling preventing the practice. “Me and the ACLU can sit down and have a long talk,” he said. “Human life is more important than appearance.”

[RLM]

This is amazing. Apparently the ACLU successfully won a case before the Supreme Court that prevents the Los Angeles Sheriff from separating blacks and hispanics in the county jails, even though this results in a volotile situation. The practice of mixing the races exposes deputies and inmates to unnecessasry danger, all for the sake of satisfying the ACLU.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Of course. The ACLU's MO is its destruction. It works towards that objective from every conceivable angle.

[wildcatf4f3]

Damn, why'd they have to interrupt them?

[Texas_Jarhead]

whoops, should have been "The ACLU's MO is its destruction of US society."

[DoughtyOne]

Members of the ACLU...

Another good reason to keep Gitmo open, as far as I am concerned.

[Jack Black]

CW II ping. One of the main themes of Tom Chittum's book is that wars inevitably turn racial. That is shown out in these riots. It is interesting that there is no mention of white (or asian) inmates. One assumes there are many whites, and at least a few asians. Are they just ignored in these riots.

[Jack Black]

see above

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"..flying in the face of a February 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling preventing the practice."

Hmmn, methinks Bush has the NSA spy thingy well in hand if a local sheriff can tell the SCOTUS to kiss off in emergencies.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

60% Brown, 30% Black jail population, that leaves 10% of mixed others.

[CBart95]

This is not about "war". It is about rioting prison convicts.

It's appears to be about effective conflict management by qualified professional administrators who have put safety and protection of prisoner rights first and not compromising administrative priorities due to militant leftist external pressures.

As "foriegn" all this may be to the average citizen, these assurances that our major criminal institutions are in the hands of experienced and capable management should be a welcome message.

[Travis McGee]

Let the ACLU send "peacekeepers" into every prison wearing referees shirts.

They can hold the gangs apart with their bodies.