Was this person tortured? "Details emerge about restrained jail inmate who went 32 hours without food". https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-inmate-hand

Was this person tortured? "Details emerge about restrained jail inmate who went 32 hours without food". https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-inmate-handcuffed-20150713-story.html https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-inmate-handcuff... Should the people involved be prosecuted for torture? To be clear, I think it is a clear violation of their 8th amendment right. Here's a lawsuit where the jail wasn't providing enough food. https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Lawsuit-says-jail-skimps-on-food-5658245.php https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Lawsuit-says-jail-s... . The class action lawsuit is settled, at https://dailygazette.com/2020/07/23/montgomery-county-agrees-to-1-million-lawsuit-settlement-over-jail-food-allegations/ https://dailygazette.com/2020/07/23/montgomery-county-agrees... . The county denies any wrongdoing. Even if you think it was torture, I wonder if the prisoners did. The complaint at https://clearinghouse-umich-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media/doc/100712.pdf https://clearinghouse-umich-production.s3.amazonaws.com/medi... says "A more abusive and inhumane environment is difficult to imagine" but does not use the word torture. Or, from https://interrogatingjustice.org/prisons/historic-winter-storm-leaves-texas-prisoners-battling-extreme-temperatures-in-state-prisons/ https://interrogatingjustice.org/prisons/historic-winter-sto... : > More than 1,000 women in one medical prison endured days without heat. Temperatures inside FMC Carswell the facility dropped to 50 degrees. The prison is the only medical facility for women in the entire country, and it houses prisoners with severe health problems. To make matters worse, staff failed to properly secure water supplies, leading to a water shortage inside the jail. Ahead of the storm, correctional officers did not repair damaged heating systems or secure a generator to make sure essential medical equipment had power. Though the prison never officially lost power, prisoners struggled in the extreme temperatures. Were they being tortured? Or, "The Big Chill - I had never been locked up before. No one told me that prison would be so cold." https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/11/29/the-big-chill https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/11/29/the-big-chill . Are those prisoners being tortured? Or is this part of the "pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in, or incidental to, lawful sanctions" the United Nations Convention Against Torture specifically excludes? I found https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/1998/feb/15/cold-cell-violates-8th-amendment/ https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/1998/feb/15/cold-cell-v... saying "The court noted that "cold temperatures need not imminently threaten inmates' health to violate the eighth amendment. Thus, Dixon's claim that his cell was so cold he could not write a letter or do legal work, was sufficient, without more, for eighth amendment purposes." This sounds like a cold cell can be a violation of the 8th amendment, even without involving torture or extreme health problems. That's why I don't want to say that this short description of the events of 1700s is enough to conclude it was likely also torture.