Then, there were the visitations. He saw that James and Lily were losing their marbles due to the effects of the dementors and also being locked in a small cell like a dog. Sirius had seen that James and Lily were suffering in Azkaban and he hoped that the three and a half years for James would be soon over. Sirius was furious, how they were treated by the guards, because he had seen, how the guards were beating the man and disgracing him as a child-abusing monster.