When the Brigade entered the camp, they found more than 60,000 emaciated and ill prisoners in desperate need of medical attention.

Seriously ill prisoners are quarantined, abandoned, and left to die.

Janny, who was made a nurse in the camp, took care of the ill prisoners.

A 2003 hunger strike demanded decent food and medicine for seriously ill prisoners.

Seriously ill prisoners are sent home on sick leave to reduce the apparent number of deaths in detention.

Mentally ill prisoners across the country are being punished for their illnesses when what they desperately need is medical care.

The 1998 report was commissioned by lawyers for inmates who sued the state in 1996 over the treatment of mentally ill prisoners.

Reforms like segregating mentally ill prisoners in treatment units would help.

Units have been built for mentally ill prisoners who cannot live with the general population.

"One individual has shown personal humanity to terminally ill prisoners in their last few months," he said.