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| SC inmates complain about food |
| By augusta.com - Sarita Chourey |
| Published: 10/07/2011 |
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COLUMBIA -- A lawsuit by three South Carolina inmates that makes a host of stomach-turning food-service allegations against the state has been moved from Charleston County to Richland County. The 10-page hand printed lawsuit, filed in December, calls the conditions at the state’s Lieber Correctional Institution in Dorchester County “deplorable” and accuses its employees of committing “grossly negligent acts.” It targets the state Department of Corrections, the Department of Health and Environmental Control, and the Department of Agriculture. “An awful, innumerable, and unbelievably overwhelmingly (sic) amount of flies were present in the dining room,” reads the inmates’ complaint, which includes a request for $30,000 in damages. The inmates who are suing are Patrick L. Booker, 26, convicted of armed robbery, Bobby A. Gilbert, 34, convicted of murder, and Patrick Strozier, 46, who is serving a kidnapping sentence. Their lawsuit also says that since 2009, the prison officials failed to ensure that inmate kitchen workers did their jobs. The result, they said, is a dining room floor that is “absolutely filthy with gross removable black soot, dirt and grime ... .” When asked about the suit over the summer, a spokesman for the corrections department declined to comment, because the dispute was pending. The inmates said the food they were served contributed to weight loss, headaches, listlessness, anxiety, and depression. Read More. |
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