(AP) — Two inmates have sued the state’s corrections director and other officials, saying prison overcrowding has caused the two emotional distress.

Dukhan Mumin and Khalid Muhammad say in the lawsuit that Department of Correctional Services Director Michael Kenney and other officials have failed in their duty by allowing such conditions to exist and not moving to alleviate them.

Department spokeswoman Dawn-Renee Smith declined to comment on the lawsuit.

The men’s lawsuit says that because of overcrowding at the Tecumseh prison they get a fifth of the 50 square feet of living space listed in guidelines by the American Correctional Association.

The two men want $80 million each for punitive damages and what they say is intentional infliction of emotional distress.