From Mother Jones
In the solitary confinement unit of East Mississippi Correctional
Facility, it's common for inmates to set some clothing or an old milk
carton on fire to get an officer's attention when they are in desperate
need of a doctor-or if, say, their cell has been flooded by a broken
pipe. Otherwise, it might be days before anyone took notice, according
to a class-action lawsuit filed last week by the American Civil
Liberties Union.
The fires sometimes got the guards' attention,
but not always in the way the inmates were hoping: At least one inmate,
the suit claims, was maced by a corrections officer through his feeding
slot. EMCF is a private, for-profit prison that houses seriously
mentally ill patients, and the ACLU's lawsuit reads like a catalog of
horrors.
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