Current Events > Why 4,998 died in U.S. jails

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https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-jails-deaths/

The next day, May 6, 2018, Hills condition worsened. He flew into a rage at the Madison County Detention Center in Canton, Mississippi, throwing a checkerboard and striking a guard with a lunch tray.
Three guards tackled the 36-year-old, pepper sprayed him and kicked him repeatedly in the head. After handcuffing him, two guards slammed Hill into a concrete wall, previously unpublished jail surveillance video shows. They led him to a shower, away from the cameras, and beat him again, still handcuffed, a state investigation found. The guards said Hill was combative, exhibiting surprising strength that required force.
Video showed Hill writhing in pain in the infirmary, where he was assessed by a licensed practical nurse but not given medication. Mississippi law dictates that a doctor or higher credentialed nurse make decisions on medical interventions. But Hill was sent straight to an isolation cell, where a guard pinned him to the floor, removed his handcuffs, and left him lying on the cement. Hill crawled to the toilet. Then he stopped moving.
No one checked him for 46 minutes. When they did, he didnt have a pulse. Within hours, he was dead. And he had a lot of company.
Hills is one of 7,571 inmate deaths Reuters documented in an unprecedented examination of mortality in more than 500 U.S. jails from 2008 to 2019. Death rates have soared in those lockups, rising 35% over the decade ending last year. Casualties like Hill are typical: held on minor charges and dying without ever getting their day in court. At least two-thirds of the dead inmates identified by Reuters, 4,998 people, were never convicted of the charges on which they were being held.

Seems bad imo

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Man I've been locked up twice and I'm not gonna say the guards are saints or anything, but if they are beating the shit outta you it's because you probably deserved it. When you're on the inside it's a different set of rules and 99% of inmates follow them, but the people who don't have a rough time.

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No surprises here.

Watch some of Larry Lawton's videos on his life in prison. Prison guards do far worse than just beat a man to death.
They'll literally piss on you.
They'll refuse to feed you when you're in the hole.
Shut off your toilet and mess with the water.
They promote race wars so they prisoners are divided.
Traffic drugs.
Deny medical treatment (if they even have it at all.)
Tamper with your mail.

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Heavy_D_Forever posted...

Man I've been locked up twice and I'm not gonna say the guards are saints or anything, but if they are beating the shit outta you it's because you probably deserved it. When you're on the inside it's a different set of rules and 99% of inmates follow them, but the people who don't have a rough time.

No one deserves to be beaten to the extent this person was, or at all really.

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