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thedailyfeed: Jailed and ignored for two years, Stephen Slevin was awarded $22 million by a federal jury in Santa Fe in one of the largest prisoner-rights judgments ever. Stephen Slevin was never convicted of a crime. But for two years, he languished in a New Mexico jail cell, going month after month without showers or outdoor recreation or human contact. His nails grew so long that they curled. Refused medication and denied access to a dentist, he says he was forced to pull his own tooth.  In the photo on the left, Slevin appears in his mugshot following his August 2005 arrest; on the right, he is malnourished and disheveled after two years in solitary confinement. Photo: Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Department/AP If he was black they would have set him up with a city job and a $50 gift card to Popeyes.

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Jailed and ignored for two years, Stephen Slevin was awarded $22 million by a federal jury in Santa Fe in one of the largest prisoner-rights judgments ever.

Stephen Slevin was never convicted of a crime. But for two years, he languished in a New Mexico jail cell, going month after month without showers or outdoor recreation or human contact.

His nails grew so long that they curled. Refused medication and denied access to a dentist, he says he was forced to pull his own tooth.

 In the photo on the left, Slevin appears in his mugshot following his August 2005 arrest; on the right, he is malnourished and disheveled after two years in solitary confinement.

Photo: Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Department/AP

If he was black they would have set him up with a city job and a $50 gift card to Popeyes.

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    FUCK the prison-industrial complex.
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    what IS this!?!?
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    One more example of why I won’t say the Pledge of Allegiance.
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    What the hale-bopp is going on here This is some serious Cast Away bullshit
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    I know that he probably did something bad, that’s why he was sent to jail, but you cannot mistreat someone like this…
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    This is really disturbing. How could he be denied a constitutional right of a speedy trial?
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