Prisoners at the Louisiana State Penitentiary have filed a class-action lawsuit over conditions at the prison's farm
Men incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary filed a class-action lawsuit Saturday, contending they have been forced to work in the prison’s fields for little or no pay, even when temperatures soar past 100 degrees. They described the conditions as cruel, degrading and often dangerous.
“This labor serves no legitimate penological or institutional purpose,” the suit said. “It’s purely punitive, designed to ‘break’ incarcerated men and ensure their submission.”It names as defendants Angola’s warden, Timothy Hooper, and officials with Louisiana’s department of corrections and its money-making arm,A spokesman for the department of correction and an attorney for the department did not immediately provide comment on the suit.
, an organization made up of current and formerly incarcerated people, around 150 of whom are still at Angola. Some of the plaintiffs have not been given the accommodations and services they are entitled to under the Americans with Disabilities Act, it said.
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