Ferguson's bordering city jail lawsuit

[sheltiedave]

Once locked in the Florissant jail, impoverished people who cannot afford to pay the City endure grotesque treatment. They are kept in overcrowded cells; they are denied toothbrushes, toothpaste, and soap; they are subjected to the constant stench of excrement and refuse in their congested cells; they are kept in the same clothes for days and weeks without access to laundry or shoes or underwear; they step on top of other inmates, whose bodies cover nearly the entire uncleaned cell floor, in order to access a single shared toilet that the City does not clean; illnesses and even infected wounds go untreated and uncovered; they endure days and weeks without being allowed to use the moldy shower; they are housed in short-sleeve jump suits; shoes and flip-flops are not permitted, so those who are not arrested in socks go barefoot on the dirty cement floor; they huddle in cells kept intentionally cold in order to quiet detainees, forced to retreat under a single thin blanket as they beg guards for warmer coverings; they are not given adequate hygiene products for menstruation; they are routinely denied vital medical care and prescription medication, even when their families beg to be allowed to bring medication to the jail; they are provided food so insufficient and lacking in nutrition that inmates lose significant amounts of weight; they suffer from dehydration out of fear of drinking foul smelling water dispensed from an apparatus covered in blood and mucus on top of the toilet, without sufficient pressure to drink from without pressing their lips to the contaminated apparatus; and they must listen to the screams of other inmates languishing from unattended medical issues as they sit in their cells without access to books, or legal materials. Perhaps worst of all, they do not know when they will be allowed to leave their disorienting and timeless cage, deprived of windows and perpetually flooded in florescent light.


Gotta love the jails in Florissant!

[donquixote99]

If that is 1/2 accurate, a lot of people are due a lot of money, enough to bankrupt the city of Florissant, I don't doubt....

[bobabode]

Jesus, that's medieval Dave.

[Pio1980]

It's just the beginning.
Unable to show up to work, their jobs are gone. Unable to pay bills or make payments or care for pets, their housing and transport is gone, along with a lifetime of personal stuff. So, if and when they get out, they are homeless and indegent, subject to vagrancy harrassment and rearrest. Wash, rinse, repeat. Our for profit justice system at its finest.
I've got mine, fuck you.

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[MrPots]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

If that is 1/2 accurate, a lot of people are due a lot of money, enough to bankrupt the city of Florissant, I don't doubt....

The entire state of Missouri has become a cesspool. Filth from one end of the state to the other. I can't bear to even drive through the stare any more.

[sheltiedave]

Mr Pots, please remember there are lots of good people here. Also recognize that, for an awful lot of people, their interactions with the police, jails, and criminal justice systems of the 40+ municipalities in north county are amongst the worst happenings in their lives.

The demonstrations, marches, and rioting in Ferguson had a root cause. That root cause happened to be police departments and courts that ran a for-profit courts scam, partnered with for profit jails, and whose favorite tickets were manner of walking, bench warrants and additional fines for failure to pay, and jails of the ilk described above.

[MrPots]

I lived in St. Louis for many years and have family there. I know what Missouri is like and what kind of people live there.

I was stunned on my last drive through at the grotesque over the top hero worship ya'll exhibit. One officer killed in the line of duty an you shut down 270, a 10 lane highway and I 40, an 8 lane for the funeral? Didn't law enforcement have any consideration of how dangerous that was what with all the drivers gawking at the flags and firetrucks lining every bridge and the sudden traffic stops? How much did that exhibition of gross hero worship cost the taxpayers?

[sheltiedave]

We are on the same page with the hero worship. Only defense I can think of is ratings. It was idiotic.

[Boreas]

Wait until you find out what's been going on at Rikers Island.

http://billmoyers.com/story/experien...-film-trailer/

[sheltiedave]

dEBTOR'S PRISON LAWSUIT.. https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P...ebtors-prisons

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...son-lawsuit%20

and the verdict...$4.7 million dollars(the truth hurts)

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...8bb2121b7.html