Cruel and unusual punishment for inmates?

[dogday]

Over the past 6 years, at least 101 inmates have died at the Harris County Jail

Harris County Jail inmate Calvin Mack lay sprawled on a cellblock floor, coughing up blood, bleeding profusely, his fellow prisoners yelling for guards to get help.

Mack, a homeless and hardened drug addict, continued to bleed, continued to die. "What do you want me to do, get a Band-Aid ... ?" a deputy quipped when he first appeared at the cellblock. Four hours passed before the officer called for medical help.

By then, Mack was all but dead.

By inmate standards, Calvin Mack's life was not unusual. A petty criminal who spent most of his time smoking crack under cover of the Fifth Ward shadow world, he had been arrested on minor drug charges almost every other year over the past decade.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4562346.html

[TheBaldyMan]

1. un-fucking-believable k&r'ed

[dogday]

2. Some get the death penalty right there in jail

without being tried for their crime, usually a drug crime....

[TheBaldyMan]

3. dogs get treated better in rescue shelters.

I read the whole article and could not believe what I was reading. Shit like Abu Ghraib makes more sense if US treats it's own like that.

[dogday]

4. But they are convicts

Don't they deserve it? :sarcasm:

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. And usually not ivory in color

[TheBaldyMan]

6. the denial of liberty is the punishment ,

if the treatment they are receiving isn't 'cruel and unusual' I'm at a loss to think what is.

[SOS]

7. Rich addicts check into Betty Ford

and are then hailed for their courage.
Poor addicts are left to die in a prison cell.

Disgusting.

[dogday]

8. That is so true and so freaking sad

and it makes me so angry... Thanks for telling it like it is in this country.... :hi:

[eagler]

9. the deputies do need to be brought up on charges

[dogday]

10. Kicking

this story needs to be heard....

[dogday]

11. They Deleted The Story Since Saturday!!!!!!

I think this is so strange and I can't even find it by searching the chron...

Here is the cached version of the page so you can read the entire story


http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?p=chron.com%3ACruel+and+unusual+punishment+for+Harris+County+inmates%3F&ei=UTF-8&fr=ush1-mail&x=wrt&u=www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4562346.html&w=chron+.com+cruel+unusual+punishment+harris+county+inmates&d=W2yg8hIeOYcA&icp=1&.intl=us