Man on suicide watch in prison died...

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...of hypothermia because they kept him naked in a cold cell:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/0 ... s-prisons/

Looking at all these violations, one thing is clear: We need greater accountability for the correctional system. The correctional system cannot be trusted to reform itself. We need a regime of surprise inspections, by people who are not part of the correctional system. I posted about a week ago another story, in Florida, where a Republican state senator conducted surprise inspections of 2 prisons and some of what he saw disturbed him:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/special ... 27769.html

Yea. Better to torture people than let them die if they want to...

I think death by hypothermia would be a pretty good way to go. Eventually you stop feeling cold, right when it gets bad supposedly.

Sorry, not really about the topic at hand specifically. I just don't particularly care if prisons don't make sure their inmates, especially if going to be locked up for a long period of time, decide they'd rather die instead. Suicide is it's own choice.

A man suffering clear psychosis left to starve to death in a cold prison:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/16/us/jamych ... l-lawsuit/

There are numerous defendants, but we have a statement from only 1, the private company that ran the prison. The company blames the other defendants in its statement.

Ok I read the articles and I'm like...revolted.

The Inspector General's office claims that it lacks the jurisdiction to conduct a full investigation of Mitchell's death:

http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/g ... 7e7a8.html