Political prisoners in Iran are continuously denied access to medical attention even when they are experiencing cardiac arrest. They live under horrendous conditions. “Children under two live in the prison with their mothers. A lawyer representing Qarchak’s prisoners has described broken ventilation systems and water and power outages. Those sick with communicable diseases aren’t quarantined and the seriously ill aren’t transferred to outside hospitals. A former staff member told a human rights group that the infirmary doesn’t even have a blood pressure monitor, oxygen tanks are often empty, the ECGmachine is broken and there is no defibrillator. Prisoners are sexually exploited in exchange for food or cigarettes.”