Inmate left to inhale own feces can sue NY prison officials

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court revived a lawsuit accusing New York prison officials of locking an inmate for weeks in tiny cells that reeked of urine and feces, including one cell where they disabled his toilet and forced him to inhale his own excrement.

Reversing a lower court ruling, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday said Aaron Willey could pursue civil claims against officials at the Wende Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison, in Alden, New York, near Buffalo.

Willey was housed there from April 2004, when he was 18, to October 2006, court papers show.

The decision comes amid greater scrutiny of the treatment of inmates, including at the Rikers Island jail in New York City.

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[tabasco]

1. The war on some drugs is rotting this nation from within

More police powers, less individual liberty, more prisoners than any society in the history of Earth.

What a gigantic fuck-up, enabled by gutless, idiot politicians.

[Psephos]

3. you are absolutely correct n/t

[procon]

2. Sadistic police brutality like this is all about power and fear.

These officers do it because they can. Because everyone else they work with is just as vicious and depraved, and they are all using the same mindless cruelty to terrorize inmates who have no hope of fairness or possibility of redress. It is an institutional sickness that begins at the top management and infects the entire prison from the guards, staff, and inmates, all of them preying on those who are weaker than themselves.

[cstanleytech]

5. Unless something has changed correction officers generally arent police thus it cannot be

police brutality.
As for this guy, if the prison officials really did this to him I hope he wins also if possible he should file personal lawsuits against them and take them for every penny as well.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Inhumane. Why wouldn't these men have already been charged to the full extent? Evil. n/t

[Taitertots]

6. The world is one big Stanford Prison Experiment

How do we correct the insane brutality exhibited by the people we trust to protect us?