An Open Letter to Lindsay Lohan from the ACLU

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.

It’s a place where an eight month pregnant woman was forced to sleep on the floor because she could not access the top bunk to which she was assigned. A place where women have said they are made to stand naked while menstruating, as they waited for jail-issued clothes. And a place where women routinely tell us they cannot get access to the same medications they took in the community (though we doubt that you will face this same problem.)

http://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/open-letter-lindsay-lohan-aclu">Read the rest

From the ACLU? I just lost a shitload of respect for them. A shitload. That is a childish and petty thing to do.

but do they really need to use poor wretched Lindsay to do it?

Doesn't the ACLU have some Nazis in Skokie to defend? Or maybe Rush Limbaugh is in need of their services again (because he was so grateful for them the last time)? Or maybe their buddies the Westboro Baptist Church and their "right" to abuse free speech and disrupt funerals.

...I have officially seen it all!

That is all.

all over everyone's news for what seems like forever and this is hardly exploiting her after all that.

Calling for reforming prisons is now a bad thing because they're using a celebrity who's gotten 24/7 coverage for months.

Jeez, the Purity of Outrage Chowder and Marching Society here at DU is working overtime.

Ummm, the point is that a rich celebrity gets to go to a country club, while all "those" people are treated like cattle.

So suck it up Lindsay - I'd take the ACLU's "open letter" vs "real" jail anytime.

:eyes: that was a dumb letter.