Even if an inmate's sentence is not oppressively long, their treatment while incarcerated can still constitute subhuman treatment. Prisons are not medical facilities, but they regularly are forced to deal with mental health problems and care for elderly and terminally ill inmates. Food, if it's even edible, usually lacks enough nutrition for inmates' health to not deteriorate. Plus, with a lack of opportunities to see family, read, or gain skill sets, inmates are placed in buildings which lack any resemblance of the civilized world.
“Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, R-Anniston, said the prison problems would be best addressed in a special session of the Legislature. Only the governor can call a special session, and Marsh said he hoped Gov. Kay Ivey would call one on prisons. The regular legislative session, going on now, ends no later than June 17. “
AL.com
May 16, 2019
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