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A form of cruel and unusual punishment for java junkies

By Douglas A. Berman

As this local piece reports, tight budget times have led an Ohio jail to deprive inmates of what is a life-saving elixir for some of us: coffee.  Here are the details:  Tight budgets mean no more java at the jail in Cleveland.  The Cuyahoga County jail has cut out inmate coffee, serving only milk with breakfast and fruit drinks with lunch and dinner. Warden Kevin McDonough says the decision was made earlier this year as a matter of economics, and because he says coffee has no nutritional value. He says there have been few inmate complaints about the move, except from a couple of old timers.

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).