Man Held in Solitary Confinement 2 Years After DWI Gets $22M | NBC4 Washington.
For my readers who are still not convinced there is a crisis of liberty in the United States take a moment and read the article linked above. Thankfully, there are still some judges and jurors who seemed as outraged by the facts of this case as I am.
The idea that an American citizen could be arrested and deprived of due process and basic medical care while languishing in solitary confinement for two years seems like something from the mind of Franz Kafka . Then again, when the President of the United States claims for himself the right to do exactly that why should we be surprised when some Podunk Sheriff does the same thing.
