If you are in Afircan prison, you automatically lose your claim to any human rights. Here prisoners sometimes have no bed to sleep; they are served little food and are made to undergo hard labour. Yet there is no autority to complain to. But not so for Braderick Laswell, an overweight prisoner in Benton County, Arkansas, United States, US, who is awaiting trial for murder.
Laswell claimed that when he got to the prison he was weighing 413 pounds, but is now down to 308 pounds after eight months. He says his vision has gone blurry and he feels hungry an hour after each meal.
According to Laswell, the inmates lose weight because they are being starved to death and not because they take part in serious activities that may cause hunger.
Laswell has filled a federal lawsuit complaining that Benton County jail does not provide inmates with enough food, and that they also serve cold food instead of hot meals, but the prison says they serve meals with more than 3,000 caleries a day, which is more than the US recommended daily diet for adult inmates.
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