Inmates in California jail say flies and mice continue to fall into their food after a flowing roof

A lawsuit filed by an inmate in California alleges that a state prison has so deteriorated that worms and mice fall on the detainees' dining table while eating. According to the lawsuit, holes in the roof of the California Addiction Treatment Facility and the state prison also allowed rain and bird droppings to occur. infiltrate and mark the walls. The trial, which includes many troubling details, accuses the state of not acting fast enough to repair the obsolete prisons. The state has committed $ 260 million over four years to repair leaking roofs and eliminate dangerous molds in more than two dozen prisons. But the cost of late maintenance is estimated at more than a billion dollars. The lawsuit comes as prison conditions are increasingly being monitored nationwide, including a scathing report by Justice investigators that Alabama prisons have systematically failed to protect detainees. unsanitary conditions, violence and sexual assault.