In the Colorado super-max in Florence, inmates wail and bang their heads, get infrequent time outside the ag seg units, and attempt suicide.  Thus the law firm Arnold & Porter and the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, an advocacy group, insist the court step in to end “barbaric treatment more suited to the dungeons of medieval Europe than to a modern American prison.”  Predictably, “The government said that the suit doesn’t specify which persons allegedly mistreated the five prisoners and doesn’t supply enough information about the ones named as plaintiffs in the action.

“There are no facts alleged by any of the five plaintiffs showing a ‘serious harm’ that resulted from the alleged lack of treatment,” the government said in a filing. “Rather, these inmates simply allege that they were denied treatment for unspecified illnesses, with no facts of any resulting harm alleged.”

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