> Ah, excuse me, but I do not understand discrimination against prisoners
> (taken to mean persons convicted of a felony after a fair trial) to be
> illegal. If it were otherwise, how could they be prisoners?
The non sequitor in the above aside:
The USSC has ruled that the rights of prisoners do not stop at the
prison gates. In general, those rights remain that are not barred by
a security or other compelling state interest. Racial, sexual,
religious and other discrimination remain as Unconstitutional behind the
walls as on the streets.
> (Our wonderful Court of Criminal Appeals in Texas just analyzed an equal
> protection claim re the capital murder statute exactly as you see above,
> making the question disappear.... Roll over, Foucault....)
Please provide a pointer.
jt