Horrendous Abuse in Mississippi Prisons

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
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Last month, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of the inmates — many seriously mentally ill — at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility. The conditions shock the conscience and, as the complaint charges, have “cost many prisoners their health, and their limbs, their eyesight, and even their lives.”