John Case

Well, I never can explain what other people do.

But

Typically, when people have made a mistake and they've bet a lot on it, they don't want to publicly announce they made a mistake.

And in this case, the governor, the secretary of state and the Colorado attorney general have bet the farm that they can keep Tina Peters locked up for nine years, despite the fact that she didn't commit a crime.

And the judge who sentenced her told her that he was

putting her in prison for nine years because of the things that he personally disagreed with, the things she was saying, criticizing the voting system in Colorado.

That's why she's in prison, because of her speech.

She criticized the voting system and the judge said you get nine years.

Yes, Tina's health is not good.

She has a cough that she's had since August, and at times she's extremely fatigued.

And it's not just her, Steve, it's every inmate at that facility.

The

The regulation for temperature, for example, is that indoor air temperatures must be at least 61 degrees during the coldest months and less than 86 degrees in the warmest months.

And that's mandatory.

The temperature in Tina's unit yesterday morning was 96.3 degrees.

That is sweltering.

And she told me yesterday in the afternoon that it was even hotter.

They wouldn't tell the

the women what the temperature was.

They had one fan for several cells so that the women would have to take turns using the fan.