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"An Open Letter to Lindsay Lohan from the ACLU"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the descriptive heading given to this page at the ACLU of Southern California.  I praise the ACLU for trying to turn LiLo's experiences into a teachable moment, and here are excerpts from the letter: Dear Lindsay, We know that going to jail is scary. But we can assure you that your experience at the women?s facility in Lynwood, outside Los Angeles, is likely to be starkly different from the thousands of others serving time and awaiting trial in the Los Angeles jails.  Based on the ACLU?s decades of experience as an official court-appointed monitor of the jails, and the stories of countless women with whom we?ve spoken, the facility where you are staying is an overcrowded detention facility where women are needlessly humiliated for so long that they come to expect sub-human treatment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 27, 2010 (boomark / email).