We must punish crime and serious crime must be punished severely. The time is long past, however, when the punishment of crime was the occasion for spectacles of imaginative cruelty or secret torture.
PRISON ARCHITECT LAUNDRY RATIO TRIAL
Those who are accused of the commission of a crime must at times be detained to assure their presence at trial even if the law holds them to be innocent until their guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt. As any judge must, the Court has accepted and exercised the awesome authority to punish the commission of crime by the deprivation of liberty. The incarceration as punishment for those convicted of crime, and at times, the detention of those who await trial, are integral components of the administration of criminal law.
There is no reason of comity, judicial restraint, or recognition of expertise for courts to defer to negligent omission of officials who lack the resources or motivation *593 to operate prisons within limits of decency." Mr. Under these circumstances, the courts have emerged as a critical force behind efforts to ameliorate inhumane conditions. "Prison inmates are voteless, politically unpopular, and socially threatening. Marcos Ramírez-Lavandero, Hato Rey, P.R., for defendants.
Carlos MORALES FELICIANO, et al., Plaintiffs,Ĭarlos ROMERO BARCELO, et al., Defendants.