NCRI – According to reports, Zahedan city prison (South Eastern Province) with 2000 inmates and more than 350 convicts on death row is in a very poor and deteriorating condition. The status of nutritional and medical care is poor and inadequate in this penitentiary, and despite the lack of medical facilities inside the jail, transfer of the patients to hospitals outside the custodial is hardly carried out due to lack of cooperation by the prosecutor’s office and prison guards.
According to an inmate, “Despite the fact that ward 3 of the jail has a capacity of no more than 230 people, the prison officials have placed more than 350 prisoners in this ward. In addition, despite its population, there are only 8 toilets and 3 bathrooms in this ward and there is no hot water in winter and the water is cut off several times a day.”
“Most foods smell bad and there is no medical care or treatment for sick inmates. The prisoners are not allowed to leave the ward and go to the other wards or sections of the prison either,” he added.
