Weinstein lawyer decries 'almost medieval' cell conditions

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: AP

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harvey Weinstein's attorney told the judge at his sexual assault trial Tuesday that conditions in the holding cell where he's being kept after court are “unhygienic” and “almost medieval.”

Attorney Mark Werksman asked Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa B. Lench for help with the issue at the beginning of the second day of jury selection in the former movie mogul's trial on 11 counts of rape and sexual assault.

He said Weinstein is being left alone in his wheelchair for three or four hours in an “unsanitary, fetid” holding cell at the courthouse before he is taken back to jail.

“It’s almost medieval, the conditions," Werksman said. "He’s 70 years old. I’m worried about him surviving this ordeal without a heart attack or stroke.”

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/weinstein-lawyer-decries-almost-medieval-cell-conditions/ar-AA12Qxxx

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[elleng]

1. No sh*t, sherlock.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. Even when we don't like people, conditions in holding cells should not be horrific

Not saying they ARE in his case, but if they are ... cleanup needs to be done.

[chowder66]

9. Agree.

[TigressDem]

15. 2 Jails. 1 for the RICH... SLIDESHOW and 1 where you die waiting to get in...

Take a gues which one Weinstein is at AND STILL complaining.

At Weinstein's income range, I'm sure he's traumatized, but so were his victims.

Mar 5, 2022 — The disgraced producer is being held at the Correctional Treatment Center, the medical unit within the Twin Towers jail in downtown Los Angeles,

https://www.latimes.com/la-me-mental-health-housing-unit-twin-towers-pictures-20150805-photogallery.html

Link to tweet

#LASDJustTheFacts Twin Towers Correctional Facility was designed to house 1,000 high security inmates in 2 man cells only houses 500 severely mentally ill inmates who require single cell occupancy. Most severely mentally ill require observation 24/7 increased by 25% in 2 yrs.


NOW THE LA COUNTY JAIL.....

WHERE the NON-Mental, NON-Medical people are incarcerated....

THAT IS BAD -- 24 hours OR MORE for INTAKE

https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/aclu-pushes-for-court-order-over-abysmal-conditions-in-la-county-jail/

The LA County Jail houses more than 14,600 inmates and the jail’s inmate reception center is where recently arrested individuals are processed and held while they wait for a more permanent placement at the largest jail facility in the country.

Under the emergency request, the ACLU is asking the court to order the county to limit the intake process to 24 hours at the most.


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According to the ACLU suit, inmates have died as they wait in the county jail’s inmate reception center. A man died in April after he was found unresponsive, while a 72-year old man who was held at the IRC received no medical attention and collapsed and died after two days.

[Genki Hikari]

22. I don't know about now, but back in the 80s/90s

Some LA County jail guards had tattoos in Spanish, "Changos Luchadores," AKA, "Monkey fighters."

Essentially a gang, with their own colors.

[TigressDem]

23. Now they have tatoo removal program

http://shq.lasdnews.net/pages/PageDetail.aspx?id=1455

[Genki Hikari]

29. That's for the inmates

I was talking about the guards having those tattoos. Because they did.

[TigressDem]

33. OMG scary.

[TigressDem]

17. NOW if they moved him to the main jail, he probably has a right to complain.

But if he is still in the twin towers location, he needs to SHADDD UP.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

18. This about a holding cell at the courthouse, neither Twin Towers nor County Jail

are the place he's complaining about.

It's a holding cell, that's (by definition) different from where you're housed normally.

[TigressDem]

25. OH, they probably don't have public record on those since people aren't there 24+ hours.

Thanks.

[Turbineguy]

3. Yeah, sure,

we'll get the Decorators in right away!

[COL Mustard]

4. Medieval?

Are they hanging him up by his thumbs? Chaining him upside down to the wall? Making him listen to Yanni 24/7? Those things would be medieval!!!

[nycbos]

11. Like this?

[calguy]

5. Sorry Harvey

But if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
Prison sucks for rich guys as much as poor guys.
Except that rich guys still have lawyers bitching about the conditions their criminal clients are 'forced' to endure.

[sakabatou]

6. Someone call the waaaahmbulence!

[WiseElder]

7. So unfair.... they should have nicer prisons for the rich

I'll bet they will come up with nicer accommodations for Trump

[TigressDem]

16. He's in "the nice one" and has no reason to complain.

See my post up thread.

There are 2 JAILS and he is in the one for medical and mental patients and it's a LOT better than the main jail where people have DIED waiting to get processed and sleep on the floor in cells with clogged toilets, etc...


But he is in the nicer one where most inmates have their own cell and don't have to share..

[SeattleVet]

8. So they are going to come out very strongly for prison reform?

I didn't think so....

[speak easy]

10. He's gonna be Epsteined

[ancianita]

12. Rape is "unsanitary, fetid" medieval. Tough shit, 70 year-old serial rapist.

[Aristus]

13. Considering his medieval behavior towards women,

I’d say the punishment fits the crime.

[Mawspam2]

14. Petition to go to Guantanamo like those 1/6 pukes.

Idjit.

[sarcasmo]

19. There is a reason they don't call jail, the Ritz.

[Demobrat]

20. 70 years old.

He’s had a lifetime of raping and abusing women while living a life of luxury most people can’t even imagine. He should have been caught and thrown in prison for life a long time ago. Like, after the first rape.

He’s a lucky man. He walked free for way, way longer than he should have.

[IbogaProject]

21. I'm not in favor of this person

But what they are referring to is the holding cell process at the actual court house. These are often very slipshod including the transportation to and from the actual jail he is being held in during the legal process.

[BigmanPigman]

24. Send him to Rikers for a wake up call.

He may stop whining after that.

[SheltieLover]

27. Absolutely!

[keithbvadu2]

26. 'almost medieval'

Really bad prison time... Nazi war criminal... from advisor to liability

Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria basement in 2001 - report

http://www.timesofisrael.com/nazi-war-criminal-alois-brunner-died-in-syria-basement-in-2001-report/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38586945

Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner 'died in Syria squalor'

One of his guards said Brunner, who went by the name of Abu Hussein, “suffered and cried a lot in his final years, everyone heard him.”

The man, identified only as Omar, said he “couldn’t even wash.”

All he had to eat were “army rations - awful stuff - and an egg or a potato. He had to choose one or the other.”

(He was a 'consultant' to various torture regimes but when he became a political embarrassment/liability, his retirement plan was really bad)

[secondwind]

28. Apparently, he is not lying............

https://nypost.com/2022/09/09/aclu-pushes-for-court-order-over-abysmal-conditions-in-la-county-jail/

[twodogsbarking]

30. Prison reform is needed; for everyone but Whinestein.

[IronLionZion]

31. If it were any normal prisoner, we wouldn't hear about it

but if the prison conditions really are unsanitary, fetid, etc. then those conditions should be improved for any human being, not just a wealthy famous one.

[malthaussen]

32. Yeah, they are.

Welcome to how your clients live.

-- Mal