The South Carolina prison system follows an unjust policy of withholding food from prisoners as punishment for minor
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Similar policies have been rejected by federal court rulings in the past.
Jon Ozmint, South Carolina’s Corrections Department director, has framed the policy as a matter of prisoner choice. In a November 2006 email, Ozmint claimed that prisoners voluntarily “choose” not to eat by “choosing” not to follow prison regulations.
This argument is false and ridiculous. The brutal policy provides insight into one aspect of the U.S. prison system that traps millions of working-class people within its walls.
