The DOJ launched a civil rights investigation into South Carolina jails after the death of Lason Butler.

The Department of Justice found themselves another jail to probe following the gruesome death of a Black inmate. The victim’s family says his body was found riddled with rat bites in his solitary confinement cell.

  • kamenLady.@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I only read the article after reading some of the comments. That’s really fucked up. Guy was in for some traffic occurrences, i wonder how you get treated, if you were to get in like for smoking weed.

    It is known as the “Death Trap”, after all.

    How can it get to be known by that name, without having it ring some kind of alarming signal for authorities to look into this? That must have being going on for the longest time in this particular prison.