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ACLU: Inmates lived in total darkness, frequently shocked in Indiana prison moultrieobserver.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from moultrieobserver.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Jul 8, 2021 / 09:58 PM EST BUNKER HILL, Ind. (WISH) Lawsuits filed against a central Indiana prison claim men were held in pitch-black isolation units for all but one hour a day, leading to injuries from dangling electrical wires, broken glass and windows, and extreme cold. One prisoner, Gerald Reed, 50, was injured when a 100-pound light fixture fell and struck him in the head, his lawsuit alleges. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed lawsuits on behalf of the six men currently at Miami Correctional Facility. That’s located about 50 miles north of Indianapolis off U.S. 31. The prison is adjacent to the U.S. Grissom Air Reserve Base. ....
Miami Correctional Facility is shown. Photo provided BUNKER HILL Six inmates kept in isolation at Miami Correctional Facility are suing the prison, alleging they were subjected to brutal and dangerous conditions, including living in total darkness for months and frequently being shocked from dangling live wires. The lawsuits were filed last week by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana on behalf of William Anderson, Charles Lyons, Anthony Parish, Jeremy Blanchard, Gerald Reed and Jeffrey Wagner. In the grievances, the inmates said they were placed in isolation cells inside the restrictive housing unit, where prison officials had covered a broken outside window with sheet metal and never replaced or repaired the single light inside the cell. ....
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All across Brazil, slums known as Favelas have long been places of crime and poverty, marked by overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. They are among the hardest hit by the pandemic, in a country where the death toll just passed 450,000. In the second of two reports, NewsHour special correspondent Simon Ostrovsky and producer Charles Lyons report on Brazil's COVID crisis. ....