Originally Posted by
Dee74 
Prisoners are the responsibility of the state - they should be adequately and responsibly cared for in a professional way.
Arguments about money, or even about what jail is for, are null and void IMO.
D
Exactly. They SHOULD be. But so often they aren't. All my info about prison is second-hand but I've had enough friends go through the system to ruin my faith in it.
You could view this as a constitutional thing: you are guaranteed to not be punished in a cruel or unusual way, consistent with your crime. And not allowing someone proper medication, safe medical detox, etc. seems to go under that. After all, is a drug charge really worth a death sentence? If you do not provide proper medical care to prisoners and they die because of it, you have acted as executioner.