KHON reports that the Oahu Community Correctional Center, the state’s largest jail, is crawling with bed bugs.
As one inmate told the television station: “I got bit all over my body, my legs, my chest, my back my arms … I’m constantly scratching because the cream that they gave me is not working.”
The state says it’s using pesticides to cure the problem, and that the infestation has been confined to one section of the jail that houses 120 inmates.
Some inmates have already contacted attorneys, who are considering legal action.
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Photo: Bed bugs feasting on human flesh (Via Flickr courtesy of Medill DC).
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