Man left in solitary confinement for 2 years gets $15.5 million settlement

[Mike_Yates]

A man who was left in solitary confinement for roughly two years gets a $15.5 million dollar settlement.

Isn't this cruel and unusual punishment?

 

[koalabear]

A man who was left in solitary confinement for roughly two years gets a $15.5 million dollar settlement.

Isn't this cruel and unusual punishment?

$15.5 million says it is.

 

[eyer]

A man who was left in solitary confinement for roughly two years gets a $15.5 million dollar settlement.

Where do I volunteer?

 

[blue_pearl_85]

A man who was left in solitary confinement for roughly two years gets a $15.5 million dollar settlement.

Isn't this cruel and unusual punishment?

SCOTUS will overturn it, of course. Just like in the Connick case in Louisiana.

 

[renard_ruse]

Its time to get rid of longterm solitary confinement. Yes, its definitely cruel and unusual punishment.

The federal Supermax facility in Florence, Colorado, is America's version of the gulag. Many prisoners are there not for what they have done but for having unpopular beliefs. Once upon a time, our country would not have stooped to such evil as these Supermax longterm torture facilities.

 

[eyer]

The federal Supermax facility in Florence, Colorado, is America's version of the gulag. Many prisoners are there not for what they have done but for having unpopular beliefs.

"Many"?

How 'bout you just provide one example, the name of one prisoner being held there "for having unpopular beliefs"...

...and what that one prisoners' "unpopular beliefs" are?

 

[Tryharder62]

Why was this prisoner in solitary?

 

[renard_ruse]

"Many"?

How 'bout you just provide one example, the name of one prisoner being held there "for having unpopular beliefs"...

...and what that one prisoners' "unpopular beliefs" are?

Any prisoner sent there straight from sentencing because of their politcal beliefs for the same crime that others without such beliefs would have been sent to regular GP for. While these places are wrong on principle to exist at all, they were at least supposed to be for those prisoners who proved too unruly or violent to be kept in the general population, they had to literally "earn their way in" from inside the prison system. Many inmates in Florence were sent there straight upon sentencing and didn't "earn their way in" at all. I can name one in particular who is accused of a "inchoate" crime in which no violence even took place and is dumped there for the next several decades, however, I'm not going to. You can look it up and figure it out if you want. The point is, that we don't need and shouldn't have such facilities in a democratic society.

 

[JackLuis]

Any prisoner sent there straight from sentencing because of their politcal beliefs for the same crime that others without such beliefs would have been sent to regular GP for. While these places are wrong on principle to exist at all, they were at least supposed to be for those prisoners who proved too unruly or violent to be kept in the general population, they had to literally "earn their way in" from inside the prison system. Many inmates in Florence were sent there straight upon sentencing and didn't "earn their way in" at all. I can name one in particular who is accused of a "inchoate" crime in which no violence even took place and is dumped there for the next several decades, however, I'm not going to. You can look it up and figure it out if you want. The point is, that we don't need and shouldn't have such facilities in a democratic society.

But, but, but what about Gitmo?

Don't we need that to keep all the terrorists in?

 

[eyer]

I can name one in particular who is accused of a "inchoate" crime in which no violence even took place and is dumped there for the next several decades, however, I'm not going to.

Big surprise...

...how 'bout you citing what "unpopular beliefs" he is being detained for, then?