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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.

$625,000 settlement approved in wrongful death suit involving Hampton Roads Regional Jail inmate

"The suit was filed in June 2017 by the family of Henry Clay Stewart, an inmate who died Aug. 6, 2016, because of internal bleeding from a perforated stomach ulcer. Inmates at the Portsmouth facility said that on Aug. 5, 2016, or the day after, Stewart 'appeared not to be breathing and was foaming at the mouth,' according to the lawsuit. The suit alleged that correctional officers and medical staff provided Stewart with inadequate and delayed care in response."

Richmond Times-Dispatch

July 24, 2018

Death in Prison, Jail & Prison ConditionsAnthony BradleyJuly 29, 2018Richmond Times Dispatch, Misconduct

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