California prison inmates refuse food

Inmates in California’s high-security prisons staged a hunger strike in protest of prison conditions. The prisoners demand release from their isolation cells. Earlier, the Supreme Court ordered prisons to alleviate overcrowding by reducing their population by one-fourth.



  Confining Quarters

California’s prison guests
Are on a hunger strike;
They’ll eat, they say, when there’s a change
In things they just don’t like.

Each prisoner demands release
From his isolation cell;
They say that being all alone
Makes life in jail pure hell.

The courts demand some major cuts
In prison population;
They didn’t specify the means,
But one way could be starvation.

 
©  2011  Jim Gordon