March 16, 2008
Judge ‘in it for long haul’ on prison reform
The federal judge at the center of the controversy over prison conditions in California said Saturday that judicial pressure is needed to persuade officials to respect inmates' constitutional rights.
"Correctional defendants are particularly resistant to courts ordering change," U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson of San Francisco said at a conference on penal reform at the University of San Francisco. "Prison personnel can be experts at the waiting game. I'm not going away. I'm here for the long haul."
LINK - SFGate.com (San Francisco Chronicle)
