conditions at parchin have been. behind me is the mississippi state penitentiary known locally as parchment prison where an astounding 9 individuals have died in the past month alone since the start of the new year reports of everything from fights and fires and suicides to insufficient food and water supplies power outages and individuals sleeping on the floors have been reported and a mountain of human rights abuses are allegedly going on behind these walls we traveled here today to speak with locals activists politicians celebrities and everyone in between and to try and figure out why these things are happening here parchment and what can be done to fix the problem in order to understand the current crisis inside parchment you have to go way back in history and understand the prison's roots of former governor of mississippi and open my supra mrs james k. vardaman was instrumental in creating the mississippi state prison he believed that the money made from convict leasing and chain gang should go to the state ins

very recent history i think 2 summers ago in august there was basically every other day most of them parchin and in a little bit further back history if we look at the 1970 s. there's this successful suit that they are sort of people win against the state that leads to the end of the trustee system and that was around cruel and unusual punishment. as long as the prison has existed there have been these sort of cruel inhuman conditions and what we're going to continue to see and have seen in the past is these. periods where the state violence is sort of most apparent to us but for people who are incarcerated that state violence every day. i would never drink the water or i don't like to wash my hands in the bathrooms because when you turned water on it's literally the color of my water fountains when they were the same way they were they come on the water fountains you're too scared to drink the guards will tell you not to drink i had guards give me about water because i didn't have any they went to water but my client that water all the time so the water varies between 2 ways it's either to

elevation my current parchin have a significant risk of not surviving and a significant risk of developing heart failure if they don't treat those patients need to come to hospital and in fact their risk when the heart attack is greater than the risk even if they develop 90 so what we've seen around the country initially we did some trigger surveys we've got a network of a 1000000 doctors lately called med share with some work that looked like doctors felt that the numbers of patients presenting with down in the process of looking at that more closely with the british heart foundation and the initial indications are that the number of large heart attack patients as the elevation my counting function patients down by about 40 percent particularly in big cities now what we don't know is whether that's because there are fewer heart attacks occurring which to some extent is cause civil if people are at home resting or not going out but the concern that we have is that those patients who are likely suffer a heart attack are older their life is at the risk factors for the high risk group that we