prison abuse, 1960’s style
i’m shocked. shocked, i say.
Texas Man, 76, Walks Free From Prison [ap via abc news, august 20, 2004]A 76-year-old man who spent nearly every day of the last four decades in prison walked free after a judge found that deputies extracted his confession to a 1962 robbery by crushing his fingers between cell bars.
they didn’t have digital cameras back in 1962, or it might not’ve taken four decades. then again, the whistleblower might not need protective custody for doing the right thing.
this probably isn’t technically prison abuse, but “crushing finges between cell bars” fits the pattern.