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.
"To toxic prison activists like Panagioti Tsolkas, that’s hardly surprising. 'I think [it’s] the same reason why so many prisoners are not given the right to vote and held without any hope of parole,' he said. 'Because they’re viewed as a subclass of the population, deserving of less basic rights, help, and protection'."
The Outline
July 23, 2018
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