"He disappeared into delirium..."-Man held in solitary two years without trial (Yes, In The USA)

[kpete]

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 can’t really remember any of it,” Dart Society Reports’ Susan Greene, who interviewed Slevin, told Raw Story. “It’s 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.

MORE:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/30/man-held-in-solitary-two-years-without-trial-cannot-remember-ordeal/

[surfdog]

1. People need to be arrested

charged with kidnapping at the very least

[hifiguy]

2. There's a nice juicy multi-million dollar lawsuit

in the making. And justifiably so.

[a simple pattern]

3. According to the article he was awarded $22 million.

The county is going to appeal, of course.

[Found in Yonkers]

6. The county

should be ashamed!

[gratuitous]

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]

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.

[dembotoz]

7. sad

[gopiscrap]

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]

9. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.