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8 x 8 cell, a head, a sink and a cott

In Georgia prisons of the 1930s, not even the guards had it that good. The prisoners slept fastened by a long chain to a row of beds made of wooden planks. Infractions such as asking a guard the time were punished by flogging. Serious violations, such as "eyeballing" a passerby on the road, were dealt with more severely.

I read where Charles Ng, who tortured and murdered several people and was sent to California's death row, sued the prison because the dessert cookie placed on his tray was cracked, and the condition of the cookie upset him so much that he couldn't eat it. It cost the state $5,000 to defend itself in a hearing in which a nutrition expert testified that not eating the cookie posed Ng no nutritional threat.

There doesn't seem to be a recorded case of anyone on a 1930s Georgia chain gang suing the prison because he didn't like the dessert he got.