How The U.S. Marshals Are Trying To Break My Hunger Strike

Re:How The U.S. Marshals Are Trying To Break My Hunger Strike by derrickdirge on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @01:25AM (#13307155)

I'd be interested to know how a starving individual being kept in solitary confinement in a cold cell in standing water, regularly subjected to treatment intended to apply physical and psychological pressure, could be framed as anything other than torture.

I would also argue that if the government focused more on not torturing people and instead treating them with basic human dignity, it wouldn't have to deal with quite so many hunger strikes.

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Re:How The U.S. Marshals Are Trying To Break My Hunger Strike by wildmusings on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @01:39AM (#13307203)

That's a separate issue than keeping people alive. But yes, I agree that torture is a bad thing.

But I also have a healthy skepticism for potentially self-serving claims made by people facing criminal charges.

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