Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Cockroach Compensation

Did the cockroaches get anything?

clipped from news.yahoo.com


JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli judge has ordered the country's prison authority to pay an inmate over $1,000 in compensation after he complained of having to share a cell with cockroaches.

A cockroach is trapped on a sticky card after escaping from the race tracks during the Great Cockroach Derby in Singapore August 10, 2006. An Israeli judge has ordered the country's prison authority to pay an inmate over $1,000 in compensation after he complained of having to share a cell with cockroaches. (Kimitsu Yogachi/Reuters)

Mordechai Yehudai filed a lawsuit complaining of poor hygiene, a lack of fresh air, broken windows and inmates who smoke in a handful of cells, a spokeswoman for the Israel Prisons Service said.

The spokeswoman said the inmate's cell would be cleaned up. Yehudai has been held in three different prisons and has had complaints about conditions in all of them.

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