Double The Trouble
Is an inmate's race used as a substitute for joining a gang? Is belonging to a gang a substitute for violence? Justice Stevens believes that this was the DOC's logic in establishing its policy, and that it is without question, "overbroad."
It's heartening to know that the Supremes are paying attention to their business, including the castaways stranded behind bars, sometimes double bars, and a case like this makes one wonder about the behavior of some parolees who go in, unattached, for some nonviolent offense, then come out hating the whole world, or at least, a segment of it.
Of course, the Court wasn't ignorant of that fact, they simply want the Golden Bear state's DOC to come up with a nonrace-based method to combat it. "Can't-we-all-just-get-along" classes anyone?
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