DEA apologizes to student left for 5 days in holding cell with no food or water

Sounds like you've got the Jon Stewart encyclopedia entry of "Republicans" down.

 

He isnt going back to UCSD b/c he's gonna retire on the settlement he gets from the lawsuit.

 

A huge difference would be that we'd know going in that for the money challenge we just have to make it a set amount of time. This guy thought he was in there indefinitely, until he died. Much more traumatic.

 

Curious to see who would do it for 20mil if someone, after the first 4 days, rolled a dice each day where you had a 50% chance to stay in the cell for another day .

Of course you wouldn't know the results.

 

Does this not remind you of the movie, 'Saw?' The original one not the bullsh!t sequels...

 

i spent 4 days in a box....no food, only a bottle of Vittel. The key is to sleep!

1.) there was a window (helps count the days)
2.) i knew i was exiting the "box" w/in a week (ended up being only 4 days)
3.) i knew i was not facing any legal or physical harm upon my exit

I'm sure these factors hlped make my experience a lot less traumatic than what this bloke endured.

 

Yeah, except there were 2 people in SAW and the lights were on. In SAW 2, however, the cop was left by himself in the dark, if I remember correctly. I can imagine solitary confinement being a lot worse.

 

You and your rabid brethren are so dim sometimes it's breathtaking.

 

How do you know when 4 days is up or not? The thing is you don't have a watch to tell time and he was cuffed with no lights on? I would imagine it would feel like an eternity after the 2nd day.

Ok I change my original question to would you or anyone else go through what this guy went through for 20 million? Basically 5 million a day.

I don't think I could sit/stand in a cell 5 feet wide by 10 feet high (you can't even lie down properly) without knowing the time and to challenge myself to drink my piss (must do this or you die), sleep in my feces, starving feeling, no lights, hand-cuffed (if this was true), suffocating feeling, eat my own glasses, eat white power (meth?), kidneys starting to fail, cramping up, mind playing games with me like I was high on drugs, and be in a confined space for that long.

Also there is no guarantee you live when they open the doors since everybodies health/personality is different.

 

He gets $4.1 million.

 

Not too shabby considering they nearly killed him.

 

And those responsible get...?

 

Not enough.

 

Paid administrative leave

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/30/justice/california-dea-settlement/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

 

Shouldve asked for an nontaxable 4.1 million...That would be excellent...Think he couldve gotten more...5 Days...wow...

PS. His survival technique of drinking his own urine...saved his life...

 

It's unfathomable that apparently before this case prisoners weren't being check on, on a daily basis. Any number of things can happen during a day.

 

Probably not. But if you put me in a fully loaded basement for a decade for 10 mil and 30 points to spend on some goods and a gf, I might think about it.

 

This policy still wouldn't have prevented this situation from happening. It's not that they refused to check on him daily... They completely forgot he was even there to begin with.

I'd be more satisfied with taped/monitored surveillance of all holding cells with a standardized process of how they deal with all temporary detainees.