Jailed 308-pound accused killer says he's being starved to death

Broderick Lloyd Laswell isn't happy that he's down to 308 pounds after eight months in jail. The murder suspect, who has lost about 100 pounds, has filed a federal lawsuit complaining the jail doesn't provide inmates with enough food. (The Smoking Gun)

Comments

[The Asshole Guy]

Another goody from the weekend.

He has plenty of fat still to burn so let his fat ass rot away in jail. Poor fat man can't eat 10,000 calories a day, OH NO!!!!

[ULTRA]

HE IS PROBABLY RIGHT SINCE HIS EATING HABITS ARE ABOVE NORMAL.

[Sean, Torrington CT]

No sympathy for fatties.

[zoot]

I'm trying to get rid of a few extra pounds maybe jail is the way to go....or I could just pray for the fat to fall off.

[twerp]

Can't do the time, don't do the crime. He needs to be thankful that he's losing weight. It's really good for him. If he doesn't already have diabetes, he will if he doesn't schlump off a few pounds.

[Valcia]

How many other inmates have starved to death so far? None! They're given enough food. Case closed.

[sometimesilie]

...cue Nelson Muntz...

[Sheila]

His concern for the waste of the taxpayers' money is touching.

[Naga Please!]

Awww poor thing. He's lucky he's not in prison in another country where the jails are like dungeons.

[notmyself]

Hah. I work in a prison and the big guys are always complaining that they don't get enough food. There are pretty strict rules about inmates passing food to one another, going back through the food line again, etc but the big guys are always trying to find ways around them.

It's actually amazing that some are still as big as they are after years in the joint. They have the ability to buy junk food with their own money, so I think a lot of them "maintain their current weight" that way. (Poor Broderick must not have this luxury.)

[twerp]

My husband likes to stick out his gut (He's not fat, kinda husky though) and do the Austin Powers, "I'm so sexy" bit. Maybe the dude is worried about losing his sexiness.

[KDP]

Let's see, I got two for ya:

Gotta get his weight down so he doesn't break Old Sparky when his time comes.

This is actually Mr. Creosote come to life. Give him a wafer mint.

[LooseyGoosey]

I'd like to see how much he'd end up weighing if he visited Sheriff Arpaio's fine establishment (http://www.mcso.org/). He'd get the exercise that he needs to supplement that weight loss for sure.

[lawdog]

Oh Good Grief. What dumbass lawyer took this case?

[lawdog]

I just read the entire "complaint." Looks like he filed himself and did not hire a dumbass.

[Jabber]

Would he prefer work relase to Mcdonald's and a conjugal from Papa John's?

[AngrySockMonkey]

they wont let me have twinkies and hoho's

[KC]

He's got the first letter wrong and is missing another: it would seem he's actually being "starved to HEALTH" (relatively speaking, anyway).

------------------
At the time of his jailing, this guy's
Massive weight meant just five men his size
Would weigh more than a ton!
What a son-of-a-'gun' --
His "starvation" complaint takes the prize.

[Lou Sussler]

I'm with Zoot, I could lose a hundred pounds and I can think of people the world would be better without.

There's just the nagging problem of regaining my freedom once the weight is gone.

[MeAPO]

I used to work for Sheriff Joe - in his jails - a lot of the info others get is just hype. Inmates get fat in MCSO and the meals are not that bad.

[Anna]

Let's see...
You stab & beat a guy to death and now you complain that you are being slowly starved to death??
I think a slow death by starvation seems perfectly just.
However, according to the photos, that is going to quite a while ....at the taxpayer's expense. We should speed up this process!!
It would have been cheaper to exterminate instead of house/feed you.... since you are so concerned about wasting taxpayer's money! Send us a photo once you reach skin & bones...we'll rethink the matter at that time, maybe.

[Phranqlin]

He should think of it as a weight loss resort. Plenty of fat people pay good money to be locked up and fed meager meals in the hope of dropping some pounds.

[Anna]

oops! That is going to =take= quite awhile....

[Neni]

Anna, WELL said.

Boo freaking hoo. So he doesn't get an extra dessert at dinnertime. Just as well. Fat bastard probably eats better than us non-prisoners do. :\

[Farmer Bob]

Sterilize him.

[Cherie]

My tiny violin is playing for him

[boynamedsue]

he should be paying them.

[LooseyGoosey]

MeAPO - I was mainly thinking about being on the chain gang, and spending so much time exercising in the fresh air. I hadn't heard talk about the food, but figured that it was good... he strikes me as the kind of guy who'd not skimp on the essentials, just make people work hard.

[andie]

Well, this is Arkansas, where there former governer Huckabee was morbidly obese before going on a massive diet. His two sons are still morbidly obese and speak fondly about how the Huckabees can can eat $20 worth each of Taco Bell food. This prisoner has good role models.

[Evie]

105 lbs over 8 months is 13 lbs/month which is actually considered an unsafe amount to lose. They've probably cut his usual food consumption by 2/3 or more and it's not like he's getting carrot sticks between meals as his body learns to adjust. He probably really does feel like he's starving. Perhaps they should offer him the choice of being beaten to death instead of starving? Make it fair?

[kindmaryjane]

Laswell claims that "on several occasions" he has "started to do some excersizing and my vision went blurry and I felt like I was going to pass out."

Riiiiiight. Are you sure it's not because you haven't seen physical activity since the Reagan administration?

[nomorecookies!]

WHYYY is he being given ANYTHING non-nutrtive?! He's in JAIL because he is a MURDERER! I'm a tax-paying, law-abiding citizen and no body gives me free cookies! Jail should not include desserts. Jail should not include spices, coffee, tea, salt, or anything that isn't just there to give them the basic nutrition to survive on. The USDA has determined that amount is 2000 calories (jsut look at the labels on the food us non-murderes buy with the money we've earned and you'll see references toa 2000 calorie diet.)

[nellagain]

KindMaryJane,

He was born during the last year of the reagan reign--

19 years old and 413 pounds, that's something of an achievement. In a really weird way. A body cannabalizing 13 pounds a month is generating a lot of toxins. Still, the stomach band/gastric bypass people seem to manage it.

[MeAPO]

LG - Chain gangs are usually carted out only for the cameras. He's also known for spending about 32 cents per day on inmate meals which supposedly include green bologna. A lot of hype!

[David]

He hasn't even gone to trial yet for the crime that he has been arrested for after 8 months?

I'll make comments after his trial, for all we know he's innocent.

[Ace]

Somewhere along the line, the ban against "cruel and unusual" punishment started to mean "have inmates live in opened-wall motels"

*sigh*
so much for a deterent and (if that fails) a punishment.