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Jail and Prison Conditions

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.

Caged: ‘Pure torture.’ Inmates suffer and die as Kentucky overcrowds its county jails.

“Terrible things happen when too many people are crammed into too small a space, a common practice in Kentucky’s local jails, which are packed far beyond their capacity with state inmates who should be serving their felony sentences in a prison. At the Boyd County Detention Center, which typically houses at least 50 percent more prisoners than it’s supposed to, an Ashland police officer left 40-year-old Michael “Boo” Moore last Nov. 27 to be booked for public intoxication, a minor offense. Moore’s battered corpse was carried out of the jail two days later.“

Lexington Herald Ledger

August 21, 2019

Understaffing, Death in PrisonPhillip ReevesAugust 21, 2019Lexington Herald Leader, Kentucky, Boyd County, Boyd County Detention CenterComment

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