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.
“‘Federal monitoring of email messages makes it excessively difficult for inmates to communicate confidentially with their lawyers,’ said Megan Graham, a teaching fellow with the Samuelson Clinic. ‘It places these inmates at an unfair disadvantage if their lawyers must rely on more costly or time-consuming methods of communications, while federal prosecutors face no such obstacles’.“
Berkeley Law
October 18, 2018
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