Officials say three inmates are dead and nine others have been transported for medical treatment as a result of an “altercation” at a maximum-security prison in the rural mining city of Ely, Nevada.
In December 2022, several inmates held a hunger strike over what advocates and some family members described as unsafe conditions and inadequate food portions.
I bet it is also super hot in there right now. It’s a bunch of aggressive, possibly mentally ill, men being kept in inhumane conditions and they have no one to let their aggression out on except each other.
This is what happens when your prison system is about punishment rather than rehabilitation.
Burying the huge lede:
I bet it is also super hot in there right now. It’s a bunch of aggressive, possibly mentally ill, men being kept in inhumane conditions and they have no one to let their aggression out on except each other.
This is what happens when your prison system is about punishment rather than rehabilitation.
Exactly. I’m sure plenty of people don’t mind prisoners living under such conditions nor that they kill each other. It’s sick.