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Betsy Sterling, the associate director of the Ithaca office of Prisoner Legal Services, a state-funded organization representing state inmates, says that because inmates are "totally dependent upon jail administration to be fed, to be given the opportunity to shower (these basic needs taken for granted outside of jail) can be an enormous event in a jail situation."