Will she even make it through?
“I think it’s very questionable whether she’ll make it through the confirmation process. You should have a search process. There may be someone out there better that you’re just not aware of.”
— Sen. Chip Campsen, R-Charleston, who said he was troubled with DHEC director nominee Eleanor Kitzman’s lack of medical and environmental experience and how she was picked for the job. More.
Another black eye for South Carolina
“But many of the inmates who are sent to isolation aren’t there because they hurt or threatened someone. They are in solitary for breaking a rule. It is nothing less than a form of torture, and yet American prisons have used it unthinkingly for decades, on as many as 80,000 inmates at a time.”
— From “The Shame of Solitary Confinement,” The New York Times Magazine, Feb. 19, 2015, in which writer Emily Bazelon opens with how South Carolina has “surprisingly harsh” punishment for prisoners who post to social media. One man got 37.5 years in solitary confinement in 2013 for posting to Facebook on 38 days.
We Can Do Better, South Carolina!