‘Putting Things Right’ at the County’s Overcrowded Jail
Humane treatment of prisoners in the County Jail should certainly include a bed to sleep in, however, I am perplexed about a recent statement by one authority that “tents are not considered acceptable.”
Before the landings in Italy by the U.S. 7th Army, our battalion spent eight months in North Africa in eight-man tents that had double bunks. Not far from us were 600 Italian prisoners of war with similar arrangements.
What was our sentence? The duration plus six months!
JOSEPH E. IRVINE
Santa Ana
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