Welcome back, John! We missed you. We also missed the kind of in-depth investigations you do that journalists should do, not comedians. Oh well!

Last night, Oliver looked at the insanity of prison healthcare systems.

"Okay, it is just wild to point out that the only place Americans are guaranteed healthcare is jail and somehow make it seem like the problem is prisoners and not our deeply broken system," he said.

"You can get free dental is jail. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Exactly. Fuck that guy and his teeth!” And putting aside the fact that not everyone who’s incarcerated is even guilty, it’s worth pointing out that, according to a recent study, 100% of prisoners are actually people — I mean like “human beings” people, like the kind you are. They have hopes and souls and farts and brains.

"And if that isn’t enough, you should know the Constitution requires that we provide adequate healthcare to anyone behind bars. In 1976, the Supreme Court ruled that denying medical treatment to prisoners constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment” in violation of the eighth amendment. Yet despite all of that, the quality of care prisoners receive is abysmal. Investigations in state after state have found it to be woefully deficient. And a lawsuit against Arizona a week back made some horrifying allegations.

"It alleges that prisoners are at 'substantial risk of pain, amputation, disfigurement, and death.' It cites examples of prisoners being told to pray to be cured or drink energy shakes to treat cancer symptoms."

He goes on the describe a woman who had a C-section that was slow to heal. The prison healthcare provider packed it with kitchen sugar.

Go watch the whole thing.