Ongoing List of Cruel Prison/Jail Outcomes
I thought it would be an eye-opening experience for the reader to see a list of real life examples where people were harmed in the prison system, both long-term and in jail.
Man survives lethal injection, prison system tries to use nitrogen gas (what is the state’s obsession with killing people?): https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/04/01/inmates-lawsuit-seeks-to-block-alabamas-bid-to-arrange-2nd-execution-using-nitrogen-gas/
Woman given towels cakes in fecal matter instead of toilet paper: https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/04/01/jury-awards-hampton-woman-who-sued-peninsula-jail-over-unsanitary-conditions-towels-caked-in-fecal-matter/
Woman with schizophrenia denied menstrual pads/tampons, ignored neglected in solitary confinement for 8 months: https://www.pilotonline.com/2018/08/30/how-one-woman-survived-her-mental-illness-isolated-in-jail-with-only-the-voices-in-her-head-for-company-2/
Disabled man murdered by prison guards: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/24/1181160437/alleged-prison-beating-death-virginia-disabled-charles-givens-lawsuit
Man with Bipolar Disorder during manic episode dies in jail cell: https://www.pilotonline.com/2018/08/23/horrific-deaths-brutal-treatment-mental-illness-in-americas-jails/
Woman awaiting trial dies in jail cell 200 miles from home, given fentanyl in cell, unknowingly: https://www.pilotonline.com/2023/04/27/woman-awaiting-trial-in-hampton-died-of-an-overdose-while-in-jail-over-three-hours-away-medical-examiner-says/
Man spends six years in jail for crime he didn’t do, awaiting trial: https://www.pilotonline.com/2023/09/17/for-many-defendants-in-hampton-roads-pretrial-freedom-is-a-pipe-dream/
Man with serious psychiatric and mental health needs placed in a freezer in Alabama jail: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/03/04/alabama-inmate-tony-mitchell-homicide-hypothermia/72839215007/
Over 700 allegations of sexual abuse by correctional officers in Rikers by female inmates: https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/rikers-island-sexual-assault-lawsuits/
Male correctional officer forcibly rapes woman in Atlanta, GA prison: https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/inmate-assault-lawsuit-lee-arrendale-prison-georgia
Kelli Dillon forcibly sterilized in California prison: https://19thnews.org/2020/10/belly-of-the-beast-forced-sterilizations-california-prisons/
Ross Ulbricht, given a King Pin charge for drug racketeering, hacking and money laundering for making an anonymous ecommerce site. www.freeross.org
You could fill an entire Sports Duplex with lists of wrongdoing against inmates who received treatment and punishment far worse than what they were accused of, many of whom have extreme mental illness from trauma and poverty.
The list goes on and on, will be added to as time goes on…. The truth is, prison systems are flooded with mental health and abuse victims who act on their symptoms. The funding not being there is a lie, it is there, they’d just rather spend it on anything other than a solution.
