Inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman 'live a miserable and hopeless existence confronted daily by imminent risk of substantial harm,' the suit said.
have led some prisoners to insert their own catheters, treat their own stab wounds and suffer through seizures without medication.
In many instances, there is one guard for every 160 inmates, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Greeneville, Mississippi.with the help of rappers Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, and Yo Gotti, real name Mario Mims, who have been protesting the"inhumane and dangerous conditions of confinement" in prisons.
The complaint was filed on behalf of 152 inmates who say that they are under"constant peril" at Parchman and that the environment is"so barbaric, the deprivation of health and mental health care so extreme, and the defects in security so severe, that the people confined at Parchman live a miserable and hopeless existence confronted daily by imminent risk of substantial harm in violation of their rights under the U.S. Constitution.
Parchman, the only maximum-security prison for men in the state, has more than 3,500 inmate beds and has grappled with aAn inoperable toilet inside a cell at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman., 49, was so in need of mental health care that before he took his own life in January, his last words were reported to have been:"I'm tired of this s---. They don't care about me or my food.
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