1.13: Is Jail "cruel and unusual"?
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This article is from the Lawful Arrest/Search/Seizure FAQ, by Ahimsa Dhamapada ahimsa@mu.clarityconnect.net with numerous contributions by others.
1.13: Is Jail "cruel and unusual"?
Jail is certainly cruel: In the South, you start
out in 130 degree F. mobile sweat box (police car) and they
deny you fresh air. They find this "mellows out" most
detainees. In the North, they use cold similarly.
They strip you and make you spread you cheeks for
inspection. They hose you with water. They are always
yelling at you. Sometimes, detainees get "roughed up".
Who's to know? You are deep underground in cement
caves with thick walls and steel doors and 24 hour
buzzing flickering fluorescent lights. Inmates shouting,
echoing cries, screams, assaults, suicides, retching
heroin addicts at your feet...
You sleep in overcrowded dungeons sometimes on the floor.
The place smells like piss. The toilets are sometimes
dirty. Even the clean water is foul.
Depending on what you say, they can take you to a special
ward, named after YOU since after all, you are now a Ward
of the State, right? They claim the just power to inject
drugs into your body against your consent. They strap you
to a bed and forget about you. Commonly, people in jail
are tortured in ways that are almost unspeakable.
So, cruel? Yes. Unusual? Unfortunately, no.
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