There is not much left to punish the prisoners when they are in isolated cells, so the guards came up with bread made from flour, yeast, crushed potatoes and carrots. About 300 to 400 prisoners of Paris are fed (with a portion of raw cabbage) as their only diet.
In New York, the state Supreme Court judge is standing in the case of Jessie Barnes; noting that the American Correctional Association “excludes the use of food as a disciplinary measure” in its standards.
Barnes lost 20 pounds after five months on the bread. Two captives in New York are currently challenging the practice of tort. Texas State The prisons that are “accredited” by the American Correctional Association have also been and continue to be used. food bread throughout.
Jennifer Wynn, with the Correctional Association of New York, says the bakery diet is “a punitive measure not a sign of an enlightened system.”
In Amarillo in the Clementibus Unit recently one prisoner is in the punishment section (solitary) and they live on diet food. for several weeks he was also denied food, since he had failed to maintain the proper “reverence” to serve the meal. Being bound, he was not even denied food, and began to cry and shut the door of his cell. The administration’s response to the “disturbance” was to spray him with pepper spray, take all his clothes, sheets, blankets, and mattresses, and leave him naked in his cell with the outside temperature close to 25 degrees. At the next meal, the same guard refused to give him even uncooked food. But in all fairness, another guard later, one night, taking pity, gave the prisoner some sago and something to eat.
Matt Sanville was arrested in Wisconsin with a history of multiple illnesses, including suicide attempts, hospitalizations and drug treatments. The prison doctors allowed Matt to go off his medication and while he was off his psychotropic medication, Matt’s behavior landed him in isolation where he was ” he did not want to eat “nurse-cakes”, he claimed that the cake was “disgusting” and “a joke”.
Matt wrote harrowing letters to his mother, Martha Sanville, and informed the prison that Matthew was suicidal and had a history of mental illness. Matt also said that he was going to kill the prison guards. On July 29, 1998, he gave papers through the cell windows, vent and calla. Then he began to tear the carpet into pieces. The guards did nothing.
Ivy Scaburdine’s guards stood in Matt’s room before lunch and dinner, ignoring even the “filth of the twisted filth.” Last live at 10 p.m. he was found dead at 3 p.m. hanging in his cell the same day. Matt had lost 45 pounds during his stay at Waupun Correctional Institution, twenty-five of them in the last month of his life.
Several deaths in the Correctional Unit in recent years and inexplicable complexes in the Texas chains, some may be related to such inhumane treatments, which hunger He came into submission.
The William P. Clements Unit is among many units in Texas and other prisons across the country certified and approved by American-constitution to be humane and constitutional in the treatment of prisoners. But from the A.C.A. it is nothing more than a rubber stamp organization controlled by the corrections industry itself to whitewash its trade and make it appear to be “certified” as if some significant standards have been omitted.
For example: Ronald J. Angelone, who was the head of the Virginia prison system and ran with many long lockdowns with iron hands, warning Jean Auldridge of States’ chapter of the United States Citizens for the Rehabilitation of the Errant (C.U.R.E.), which has a Texas chapter, finally retracted the comment “the system has hardened” and said that he was directly from the director of the prison to be the Chairman of the Standards Committee of the American Correctional Association. Angelone stated that he is also a “consultant” and “testimony” in earn money. attorneys in litigation are usually entitled to the highest honors in any court of law.
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- Sources: Southland Prison News, January 2003. Sanville v McCaughtry 266 F3d 724 (CA 7, 2001) www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2002/apr/loaf/index.html
