Do You Have a Right to Sunlight?

By Carl Jensen Jr., Attorney at Law

Maybe.  Maybe not.

“A federal judge wrongly ordered two San Francisco county jails to provide an hour of access to outdoor sunlight per week to pre-trial inmates locked up for more than four years, an attorney for the city argued before three Ninth Circuit judges Thursday.”

From a cost savings point of view alone, sunlight exposure would probably reduce medical costs at these facilities.