Shameful, truely shameful. This is particularly for those folks who think people in prison are 'coddled' and for those misguided folks who like to make prison rape jokes.
http://dogobarrygraham.blogspot.com/2011/05/scenes-from-usas-gulag.htmlHolding cells for prisoners awaiting a "mental-health crisis bed," Salinas Valley State Prison, July 2008. Writing for the majority in Brown v. Plata, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy stated, "Because of a shortage of treatment beds, suicidal inmates may be held for prolonged periods in telephone-booth sized cages without toilets…A psychiatric expert reported observing an inmate who had been held in such a cage for nearly 24 hours, standing in a pool of his own urine, unresponsive and nearly catatonic. Prison officials explained they had 'no place to put him.'" This photograph was appended to his decision.