Turkey Day in the Clink

My experiences with the CRIMINAL injustice system
in North Carolina (and those of many others)
have been far worse than those described by
the excellent writer, Sean Rowe.

Jails, remember, are where people are caged BEFORE TRIAL,
as well as after trial. I was threatened with jail
in Raleigh, North Carolina
after reporting police misconduct by a cop who was later
fired for killing someone (after I pointed out that the
misconduct in question could have killed the 72-year-old
with a walker), and when threatened with arrest
by the IAD sergeant (in the Police Chief's outer office,
after my written complaint submitted to the Police Chief
had gone unanwered), I was literally shaking.
I told him I though you would WANT to hear a complaint
like this before you read it in the newspaper
that some old man was killed by a cop.

And when I was jailed, I had no food or water, except water
from the back of the toilet (where other prisoners wash
their socks and underwear), & every single cell I was in
had feces and/or urine on the floors and/or walls and/or
the water inlet in the back of the toilet,
and after the Judge ordered me released, after I complained
about what happened in jail before I got to court,
a guard locked me up in the below-ground dungeon under
the court-house (known as "the hole"), also with sewage
all over the floor, and no lights or ventilation,
with other prisoners, and he told them to commit sodomy
on me, and left us there unsupervised until after dinner
(all of us more than 24 hours without food or potable water)
-all illegal, of course. When the innocent are subjected to
such treatment by guards like Charles Graner, EVERYTHING is
wrong. I've only touched a few of the highlights of what
I've witnessed and personally experienced, but it extends
beyond misconduct by the executive branch to include
prosecutorial and legislative and judicial misconduct, and
misc