Posted on 08/04/2013 6:02:33 AM PDT by expat1000
A student, who was abandoned in a prison cell without food and water, won a lawsuit against the United States.
The college student from California, who was left in a cell for four days, will get $ 4.1 million in a lawsuit settlement.
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He deserves it.
That said, I’m surprised our government masters didn’t blow him off by pleading “sovereign immunity.”
A million a day? I think I’d take that deal.
I must have missed the part where the people who left him there were fired.
I would for two days, and probably for three, but that's my limit. At five to seven, the probability of death rises. Besides, if mental anguish matters, he had no knowledge of whether he was in for the duration or not. Would you take the deal knowing only that you might get released if someone remembered?
A tragedy of errors that could easily have ended with a corpse in that holding room. It is easy to see in hindsight all of the ‘should-have-dones’ but still, this young man was just visiting a friend and being in the wrong place at the wrong time and came very close to dying from it.
The idea of punitive judgements is not just compensating the victim but to force the offenders to correct the errors made by making them expensive. When it is an agency of government I am not sure that it has that effect but I hope that all police-power agencies, of all kinds, will now monitor such out-of-sight holding rooms!
However, I am not anxious to personally test my hope!
Chong said he slid a shoelace under the door and screamed to get attention before five or six people found him covered in his feces in the cell at the DEA's San Diego headquarters.
"All I wanted was my sanity," Chong said. "I wasn't making any sense."
Chong was hospitalized for five days for dehydration, kidney failure, cramps and a perforated esophagus. He lost 15 pounds.
The DEA issued a rare public apology at the time.
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, the Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, on Tuesday renewed his call for the DEA to explain the incident.
"How did this incident happen? Has there been any disciplinary action against the responsible employees? And has the agency taken major steps to prevent an incident like this from happening again?" he said.
My understanding is he was there to buy pot, which is still a crime.
Didn't deserve what was done to him, but he wasn't totally innocent bystander either.
In what hellhole country did this happen? Was this in one of those Mexican jails or somewhere in the middle east?
Says a lot about the people of that Godforsaken place. I sleep much better knowing that we'd never get that bad or worse.
This is what happens when our government treats people like cattle. Say what you will about weed, but potheads are hardly a threat to society or our freedoms. The laws treats citizens like they’re children and can’t take care of themselves, and then they forget people in dungeons. Clearly between the government and the citizen, it’s the citizen that is more keenly aware of their best interest.
I'm not sure I would but I *would* do 2 days for $2,050,000.
Different strokes, for different folks. Supposedly Mahatma Gandhi drank his own urine daily claiming health benefits from it.....$4.1m settlement, only in California, where the bizarre is normal, and normal is not to be found anywhere.
Then you also get the deal where he still isn’t quite back to normal, a year later, and doctors don’t really know if he ever will be.
Yet someone wrongly imprisoned for years gets maybe a 10th of that.
It’s time for you to get either some strong sleeping pills or a passport.
First, I'd be claiming Gandhi as a medical recommendation, second, by all reports this was a bare room without ANY facilities, otherwise he (and I in the same circumstance) would be doing that dog thing. So by the time he probably started to do this, it would be minimal output from shutting-down kidneys resulting in a very concentrated brine. Think Dead Sea times a multiple.
In survival classes, if you had not had access to water in less than a day and you were well hydrated earlier, then drinking urine ONCE was a way to extend your water ration. For this poor gent, he was probably still expecting release beyond this point even if he had the knowledge.
Just a minor mistake by the overlords. They will be suspended for a year with pay.
Probably occupied Poland. At Auschwitz, the Nazis murdered prisoners by locking them in a room with no food or water.
How about flogged?
Better yet, filleted then flogged.
Otherwise, the way that place is turning, Arizona will be oceanfront property.
(Hey Lot? Time to get the Dodge outta hell...and don't look back!)
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