The cruelty is the point. It’s their MO. Hurt those already judged and serving their sentence. It’s why I will never work in correctional Healthcare. Each interaction with a health care professional is, in those HCPs minds, an opportunity to punish in invisible ways. I’ve seen many DOC nurses treat inmates like dogs. By the time they get to outside facilities for care, they’re often unnecessarily complicated or half dead, due to the ‘care’ they get from DOC personnel.

Edit: not just nurses but doctors too