The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that toilet water would freeze over and inmates were repeatedly treated for hypothermia.
“How do you get hypothermia in a prison?” the investigator asked. “You shouldn’t.”
The exchange, captured on video obtained by The Associated Press, took place during an investigation into the death of Charles Givens, a developmentally disabled inmate at the Marion Correctional Treatment Center, who records show was among those repeatedly hospitalized for hypothermia.
After a special grand jury considered the case but opted not to bring criminal charges, Givens’ sister sued in federal court, alleging her brother was subjected to routine mistreatment, including “cold-water torture,” before he was fatally beaten in 2022.
The lawsuit has raised broader questions about conditions at the southwest Virginia prison, which the grand jury described as “inhumane and deplorable.”
…and we’re back to ‘do nothing and change nothing.’
Well you’re already doing nothing so good job on that one
Please prove I am doing nothing about prison reform.
Unless that was a lie. Was it a lie?
Shit posting doesn’t count
In other words, you have no proof and you lied. Thanks for that tacit admission.
Or maybe you lied. Do you have proof you didn’t lie?
Naner naner! I got you!
Sick retort kiddo!
That’s an interesting way to avoid backing up your claim.
What claim is that? That you sound mentally ill right now?
I sound mentally ill because I’m asking you for evidence of your claim about someone you’ve never met and know next to nothing about?
I think you may want to go back over that…