Posted on 04/27/2008 4:38:21 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
BENTONVILLE, Ark. - An inmate awaiting trial on a murder charge is suing the county, complaining he has lost more than 100 pounds because of the jailhouse menu.
Broderick Lloyd Laswell says he isn't happy that he's down to 308 pounds after eight months in the Benton County jail. He has filed a federal lawsuit complaining the jail doesn't provide inmates with enough food.
According to the suit, Laswell weighed 413 pounds when he was jailed in September. Police say he and a co-defendant fatally beat and stabbed a man, then set his home on fire.
"On several occasions I have started to do some exercising and my vision went blurry and I felt like I was going to pass out," Laswell wrote in his complaint. "About an hour after each meal my stomach starts to hurt and growl. I feel hungry again."
But Laswell then goes on to complain that he undertakes little vigorous activity.
"If we are in a small pod all day (and) do next to nothing for physical exercise, we should not lose weight," the suit says. "The only reason we lost weight in here is because we are literally being starved to death."
The suit also asks that the county be ordered to serve hot meals. The jail has served only cold food for years.
The meals, provided through Aramark Correctional Institution Services, average 3,000 calories a day, jail Capt. Hunter Petray told The Morning News of northwest Arkansas for a story Saturday.
A typical Western diet consists of 2,000 to 3,000 calories a day.
Laswell's suit was filed without a lawyer in U.S. District Court in Fayetteville.
King Rat, by James Clavelle!!! (sp) Terrific Book
Then he would just sue the jail for keeping him fat/making him fatter/giving him bad knees.
I’m still mostly lost as to HOW the ‘Freshman 15’ can actually happen because most of us lost weight when we went from eating high school cafeteria food and sitting around all day to eating dorm cafeteria food, which is marginally healthier, and walking everywhere. We have a sort of loose theory that, because guys generally don’t pay attention to what they weigh, and they’re away from home (and therefore the environment is more conducive to sex and birth control is more accessible), girls go on the pill and the resulting weight gain is blamed on dorm food. Obviously, this is full of holes, but it’s our best (and only) idea...
If I was in charge his tube steak sandwich three time a day would really skinny his as+ down.”
Send him down to Sheriff Arpaio in Arizona.
After he breaks rocks all day long in the sun and rain and sleeps in a tent 365 days a year, then he can see how lucky he is right now.
What a wonderful adult from the womb of some woman who might have high hopes for her little boy.....
He’s underfed just like all those on welfare down in NO where they go to bed every night hungry. But still weighin at over 300 and claim to be to disabled to work but can party around the clock during madi gras.
Tell me that is not true. Do you have a link? I’m not doubting you, I’m just not sure how to google POS beats rap by Super Size.
Google Mitchell Rupe. It happened exactly as I described. Rupe died in prison not long ago from some liver ailment.
Mitchell Rupe (1955–February 8, 2006) was a convicted murderer who died of liver disease in the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington. Rupe was convicted for aggravated murder for fatally shooting two bank tellers in Olympia, Washington during a bank robbery in 1981. His death sentence was overturned twice, the second time being in 1994 when United States federal judge Thomas S. Zilly ruled that Rupe was too heavy to hang. Rupe was over 425 pounds at the time (as high as the scale went) and the judge was concerned that execution by hanging could cause Rupe to be decapitated, which would constitute cruel and unusual punishment.Rupe was re-sentenced a third time in 2000 by a new jury. After a two week sentencing hearing, Rupe escaped a new death sentence when the jury deadlocked by an 11-1 vote in favor of the death penalty, falling short of the unanimous verdict required by Washington law for imposition of a death sentence.
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You bad! That's just his nightly snack.
“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?” – Barak Obama while stumping in Adel, Iowa at Beverly Van Fossen’s farm
“Someone near me whispered, ‘What’s arugula?’ “ – Beverly Van Fossen
I’m guessing that is before he lost 100#.
"Private Pyle you had best square your a** away and start sh***ing me Tiffany cufflinks or I will definitely f*** you up!"
Hmmm, it says I’m a rotten picture-pinching thief. I reckon I’ll have to find my Lee Ermey pic elsewhere.
Thank you.
Unfortunately, reading that made me hate Liberal America one inch more. Lordy, what do the Lefties think Mo will do when he overruns the USA?
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