The dangerous problem of sleep deprivation leads to a health and safety crisis in prisons and jails.
Steven Backstrom was struggling to stay awake during his shift in the prison shoe factory. The machines could be dangerous if you weren’t paying attention, and he’d slept about 3½ hours. Activity at the Clements Unit, a state prison in Amarillo, Texas, was always churning. Night after night, doors slammed and people yelled. Sometimes, staff delivered medications at 2 a.m. Many nights officers forced him to come to the front of his cell for a security check.
A man in prison in Georgia, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation, said his unit has “huge lights” and frequent middle-of-the-night emergency counts at 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. “I wear earplugs and skip breakfast,” he said. But in many facilities, it’s not just the doors and the lights.
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