One of them was held for 3 years just awaiting his trial. He has severe diabetes and the prison often doesn't bother to provide his insulin on time. I've had to call the prison repeatedly to get him checked, and twice now he has ended up in the hospital with amputations to his toes. And, the family is kept in the dark. I leave a message for the prison on their "health services" line, and then we don't hear anything for days. We are not allowed to know if he has been taken to a hospital, and the hospital is not allowed to disclose if he is a patient. Anyway, he finally had his trial, and his sentence is "time served" and then a halfway house, but the final paperwork won't be put through until March (the trial was in September). So, he's done more than his time, but still remains in the prison under the same intolerable conditions. We have to keep electronically putting money in his prison account so that he can make phone calls and buy the extra things he needs such as socks for diabetics, gauze and iodine for post-surgical treatment for his amputated toes, etc. My husband is a wreck, as he believes (and so do I) that the prison won't be happy till his brother is dead. His crime was dealing coke. Yes, that's wrong. But the penalty shouldn't be inhumane treatment and a death sentence.