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.
"Gov. Phil Bryant said Tuesday that multiple state and federal agencies are working together to investigate the numerous MDOC inmate deaths this month. He added officials are 'going to do everything that we can to find out what is going on with each and every one of them. They're just as important as anyone else in the state of Mississippi whose lives have been lost'."
Clarion Ledger
August 29, 2018
Read More"The ages of the seven deceased inmates range from 29 to 78. Three were housed at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution, two were at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility and two were at Parchman. Four of the deceased were black and three were white. The manner and cause of death has not been made public in any of the seven deaths."
Mississippi Clarion Ledger
August 20, 2018
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