The State - News from March 25, 1985

In response to inmates who staged a hunger strike, a Superior Court judge ordered Mendocino County officials to make changes at the jail to give inmates more privacy in a visiting area. Judge Timothy O’Brien also ordered the county to build a facility to hold drunk inmates and said the county should meet minimum correctional standards of fresh clothes two times a week for inmates. Deputy County Administrator Gordon Logan said the judge’s orders represent a “substantial cost” to the county, which is building a new jail.