The Nevada Department of Corrections has said the protest was prompted in large part by complaints about inadequate meal portions from a new food vendor, Aramark Correctional Services, according to statements released since the prisoners at Ely State Prison stopped eating on Dec. 1.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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Wow, on a hunger sitike. Bobby Sands would be so proud, but the dudes better go a lot longer if they want to break his record..
ReplyDeleteAnd then there was the inmate, back in the '60s, who filed suit because he didn't think the orange he got on his food tray was good enough.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who has ever dealt with Aramark will understand what's going on here.
ReplyDeleteAnyone that keeps their ass outta jail doesn't have to worry about understanding what's going on here. For those that don't keep their ass outta jail, we'll that shit is on them.
Deletefairplayjeepguy
Can't wait got fairplayjeepguy to go to jail for some bullshit Democrat crime like misgendering someone and then starve to death while morons chant "for those that don't keep their ass outta jail, we'll that shit is on them."
DeleteWait. What?
ReplyDeleteInadequate!?
Eat what’s there.
Alternatively give them old MREs. I still have some that maybe have charms in them.
Ragnar
Something is seriously wrong with you, when you become a connoisseur of prison cuisine!
ReplyDeleteShit has to be pretty damned serious before people will go on a real hunger strike. Our "justice" system is broken on MANY levels. I think we ought to bring back slavery, and just auction those guys off to whoever wants to have them. If nobody's willing to pay to take them, then run the auction the other way, start at $10,000/mo and the bidding goes downwards.
ReplyDeleteAt the very least, it'd keep the corrupt politicians from handing off cushy private prison contracts to their cronies. (And you KNOW that's what's happening now.)
Of course, that's exactly what happened in some places after slavery was abolished (i.e. made to be only for crimes duly convicted) They'd hunt down black guys, trump up some bullshit charges, and hand them off to their cronies to be put back to picking cotton.
I guess it just goes back to governing a wicked people (which can only be done to their destruction.) And none of this matters unless we fix the ballot box stuffing systems.
"Harvell alleges physical abuse by prison staff, excessive lockdowns and unreasonably long periods of solitary confinement, in addition to the food concerns."
ReplyDeleteGee, sounds like the Covid lockdowns. Boo fucking hoo. Maybe don't do shit to wind up in prison?
Steve S6
for all you insensitive RATS "don't go to jail then" tell that to the guys sitting in the DC GULAG... oh, wait, "everyone who is in jail is innocent of all crimes and nobody gets set up by corrupt police", what the FUCK was l thinking...
ReplyDeleteI agree do the crime do the time. I also know we have a for profit prison with at least some psychopaths employed by them.
ReplyDeleteWhen seeing prisoners as patients in the hospital setting I made it a point to never ask what they were in prison for. Didn't want to know, didn't want that clouding my mind. But I did get information on how things run from the medical end.
There is a difference in carrying out a sentence and adding extra cruelty to it. Multiple times I saw (some of the same patients more than once) that ended up hospitalized, sometimes dead, because the most basic things were not done. You have diabetes? Might or might not get your meds, then you might or might not go into diabetic ketoacidosis. Having some chest pain at 59 years old? You might just sit, at the whim of someone, long enough to infarct, maybe die, or maybe just end up with ongoing congestive heart failure from the damaged heart. Belly is getting larger over months but your'e still dropping weight? By the time the cancer gets identified (you can easily feel the mass already) it has usually metastasized.
So yeah, don't do bad/dumb shit and you won't have to worry. On the other hand, everybody fucks up some, and there but for the grace of god go I. I have no idea how valid for the Las Vegas prisoners complaints are. I do know shit goes on in there most of us will never know about. It gives me pause.
Aramark sucks even when you pay for their food in a cafeteria. Aramuck just plain sucks.
ReplyDeleteYup! When they stated Aramark was the food vendor I wasn't surprised. Food poisoning is no fun. Saw plenty of my co-workers that ate in the cafeteria sick.
DeleteNobody thinks that a person who commits a real crime should not be punished, including jail or prison, if the crime rises to the level that deserves such punishment. But is sounds like some of you here forget that the Bill of Rights doesn't stop at 2. The 8th amendment to the Constitution is also a part of the Bill of Rights, and it tells the government that there shall be no cruel or unusual punishment. A prisoner, even one who has already been convicted of their crime, has the right to be fed, clothed, and to have a proper bed at night. If the government either cannot or will not do that, then they have no right to imprison that person. Perhaps if the government would stop imprisoning the highest percentage of people of any country in the world, which has to include non violent crimes, or basically victimless crimes, such as drug possession or prostitution, or crimes of things like mistakes on a federal form, like the 4473, that the feds have been pushing since FJB took office, then they could afford to feed and house the real criminals that do commit actual crimes against people like violence and other crimes that call for prison.
ReplyDeleteI guess all those folk here saying that people in prison deserve what they get don't have a problem with what's happened to the Jan 6 political prisoners.
ReplyDeletePreach, preacher.
DeleteShortsighted, airheaded useful idiots for the people who want little boys and girls mutilated and groomed. "They're getting what they earned! *Idiotic hyena noises* Play stupid games!..."
Stupidity is sometimes more destructive and dangerous than deliberate evil and malice.