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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"He disappeared into delirium..."-Man held in solitary two years without trial (Yes, In The USA)
Man held in solitary two years without trial cannot remember ordeal
Your insanity builds. Some people holler or throw feces out their cell doors, he continued. Others rock back and forth under a blanket for a year or more, which is what my client did.
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In August of 2005, Stephen Slevin was arrested for driving while intoxicated (DWI). He spent most of the next two years in the Dona Ana County Detention Center without his case ever going before a judge.
Slevin was rarely allowed to go outside, fungus grew underneath his skin and his toenails curled around his foot because they were so long. At one point, he even had to pull his own tooth.
He cant really remember any of it, Dart Society Reports Susan Greene, who interviewed Slevin, told Raw Story. Its all sort of lost in his mind, which is a typical trauma response, a pretty extreme though not unheard of trauma response.
Attorney Matt Coyte explained to MSNBC.com that police had mistakenly believed that Slevin had stolen the car he was driving when police pulled him over and arrested him for a DWI. Slevin informed authorities that he had been depressed, but instead of getting mental help, he found himself on suicide watch in a padded cell. Three days later, he was transferred to solitary confinement.
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"He disappeared into delirium..."-Man held in solitary two years without trial (Yes, In The USA) (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2012
OP
surfdog
(624 posts)1. People need to be arrested
charged with kidnapping at the very least
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)2. There's a nice juicy multi-million dollar lawsuit
in the making. And justifiably so.
a simple pattern
(608 posts)3. According to the article he was awarded $22 million.
The county is going to appeal, of course.
Found in Yonkers
(100 posts)6. The county
should be ashamed!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)4. And that's after two years
I wonder what the toll is on a person held incommunicado for nine or ten years?
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)5. We've been torturing and confining people in Gitmo for over a decade
This is what happens when you have a culture of disrespect toward civil liberties. Think American citizens are immune? Think again. The new NDAA and the Patriot act will ensure that Americans can be subjected to this.
The war on terror marches on.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)8. This is fucked up beyond words
22 million doesn't even cover it...not only that the head of the jail, the presiding judge and his attornye's should all be sued!
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)9. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, kpete.