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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Student Forgotten In Holding Cell: 'Changes Have To
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Thu May 3 20:38:19 2012
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 17:27:43 -0700
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Student Forgotten In Holding Cell: 'Changes Have To Be Made' - NPR
http://j.mp/IHOowq (NPR)
During the interview, Chong sounded puzzled about why this
happened to him. It doesn't make sense, he said, that the agents
would do this on purpose. But how could they not hear him kicking
the door, screaming for help? "My cries were suicidal," he said.
"At one point I even begged them to urinate through the crack of
the door just for me to drink. I was willing to drink other
people's urine. I mean it was pretty low and embarrassing."
- - -
As an ex-DEA official noted, nobody would do this on purpose per se,
because it could easily be a "career ending" incident (not to mention
"life ending" for the victim). But there is a jail/prison culture that
treats prisoners at any given moment in time as subhuman animals, and
when the system breaks down as it did in this case, individual
protests (e.g. Chong's) at any given moment were just ignored by
whomever happened to be in the vicinity.
--Lauren--
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