• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Just FYI, I very much doubt that there are segregated units there. CNN did a piece about this prison. It is designed to be degrading and inhumane.

    In a recent visit, CNN’s David Culver and his team described cells “built to hold 80 or so inmates” where men are held for 23.5 hours a day and “the only furniture is tiered metal bunks, with no sheets, pillows or mattresses … an open toilet, a cement basin and plastic bucket for washing and a large jug for drinking water.”

    The CNN team that visited in late 2024 described the deprivation as “deliberate,” noting the men were allowed out of their crowded cells for just 30 minutes a day, that “there is no privacy here, no trace of comfort” and the lights are on 24/7.

    “They do not work. They are not allowed books or a deck of cards or letters from home. Plates of food are stacked outside the cells at mealtimes and pulled through the bars. No meat is ever served. The 30-minute daily respite is merely to leave the cell for the central hallway for group exercise or Bible readings,” wrote CNN’s David Culver and his team.

    Inmates are not allowed visits from family or friends and some of them must face the possibility that they will never be released.

    • CherryBullets
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      10 days ago

      1 open toilet for 80 men… 1… 1… 1… I cannot wrap my head around that singular inhumane fact. Everything about this is horrible, but this is devilry incarnate. The most basic human needs that you cannot control, the most disgusting ones that no one wishes to have be unhygienic and public… make no mistake, that toilet is never clean if it even works at all and 80 men definitely cannot all hold it 24/7 while someone else is using the damn thing. This is horror.