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The anonymous woman was raped in Houston in 2013, according to court documents, and was cooperating with prosecutors when she suffered a breakdown while testifying in December 2015.
She has bipolar disorder and was admitted to a local hospital for mental health treatment when the judge ordered a recess for the holiday break until January 2016.
According to the documents, authorities were scheduled to be on vacation and "did not want the responsibility of having to monitor Jane Doe's well being or provide victim services to her during the holiday recess."
The complaint alleges that the district attorney's office obtained an order from the Harris County sheriff to take the woman into custody so she would not flee before completing her testimony.
The employee booking her into Harris County Jail identified her as a "defendant in a sexual assault case, rather than the victim." That impacted her treatment from jail staff, as the complaint reads:
The Harris County Jail psychiatric staff tormented Jane Doe and caused her extreme emotional distress and mental anguish by further defaming her, falsely insisting to her that she was being charged with sexual assault, and refusing to acknowledge her status as an innocent rape victim."
Doe also suffered beatings from other inmates and from a guard, who then requested assault charges to be filed against her "in an attempt to cover up the brutal abuse," according to the complaint.
[...] The complaint notes that her "rapist was also an inmate in the same facility" and treated more humanely. "Her rapist was not denied medical care, psychologically tortured, brutalized by other inmates, or beaten by jail guards," it reads.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by TrumpetPower! on Monday July 25 2016, @06:14PM
frojack (1554) wrote:
And, yet, according to frojack (1554):
So, which is it? Was she in jail because the DA thought she was going to refuse to testify against her own rapist or because she was a defendant suspected of sexual assualt according to the DA's signature on the paperwork?
Believe it or not, I actually agree with you on this fact.
Where we differ is that you seem to think that that's a good thing, or at least acceptable; I, on the other hand, find it horrific and a most poignant indinctment of our for-profit prison industry.
b&
All but God can prove this sentence true.
(Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Monday July 25 2016, @07:01PM
So, which is it? Was she in jail because the DA thought she was going to refuse to testify against her own rapist or because she was a defendant suspected of sexual assualt according to the DA's signature on the paperwork?
Read TFS again. And maybe the TFA as well.
You will find out the DA lied, in order to prevent her running away, he alleged she was a defendant in a rape trial.
Maybe by mistake, but that seems unlikely. Mistakes don't last a month. Most probably because he could hold her longer under an arrest warrant than he could under a material witness warrant.
The DA never suspected she was a perpetrator.
And by the way, a county Jail is not a for profit prison operation.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 26 2016, @08:39AM
> The DA never suspected she was a perpetrator.
Yes, but everyone else who saw or heard his lie, no matter how indirectly, *did* (at least have grounds, depending on how much faith they have in the DA or the system, to) suspect she might be a rapist. You appear to be trying to defend yourself as if you had made a different argument. Your actual argument was:
> She was never suspected of being a rapist.
Which flies against all facts and all reason - including facts and reasons you have subsequently presented yourself. You're just too proud to back down after making such a stupid statement, I can't believe anyone capable of stringing a few words together would still stand by such an absurdity unless contradiction was simply a way of life.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday July 25 2016, @07:06PM
you seem to think that that's a good thing, or at least acceptable; I, on the other hand, find it horrific
So then, just to make it clear, you are going on record as stating that providing medical/psychiatric services to inmates is "poignant indinctment" of jails.
Throw them in, weld the doors shut, and toss in food. That's your plan.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by TrumpetPower! on Monday July 25 2016, @07:16PM
If that's the game you want to play, how about you tell us when you plan to stop beating your wife?
You're not fooling anybody with this unartful wordplay of yours; all you're doing is demonstrating a very childish degree of either reading comprehension or rhetorical skill. Either way, you're just scoring an own goal by demonstrating opponents of prison reform to be ignorant barbarians.
b&
All but God can prove this sentence true.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Zz9zZ on Monday July 25 2016, @08:31PM
Discussion does not matter in these cases, it is most frustrating. I had a similar discussion with a retired officer who worked for a short bit in a county jail and he was telling the group about how their sheriff had bought military rations (MREs) at a good price in order to save the county money. He was denied from serving them to inmates. From the retired guy's point of view this was a tragedy where the sheriff was punished for trying to do something good. I did a quick search and found info stating that MREs are not healthy to eat long term, and possibly might not have been unspoiled (they were from the gulf war...) It didn't matter what I said, I didn't know what I was talking about and was full of shit.
The problem is some people can't accept new information if it in any way alters their existing world view. This is a human problem that won't go away, and it cuts on both sides of the liberal/conservative line. Frojack, you're replies are way too defensive, as if you can't imagine that something wrong is being done in jails/prisons. These injustices happen every day, and I have much more sympathy for the abused than the people being accused of causing that abuse. Even if they're criminals.
As I tried to point out to the guy from my little story, restricting people's freedom is the punishment. Malnutrition and other abuses should not be tacked on by some angry officers who want the bad people to "pay". Again, they are paying by not being free and living with a bunch of other people who make their life quite unpleasant.
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 26 2016, @04:22AM
Thanks for being another person on this site who points out the steaming, crosseyed, grunting bullshit people like him put out. I can't comprehend what makes people behave like this, but knowing I'm not alone in this seemingly endless war is a relief.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by sjames on Monday July 25 2016, @10:19PM
According to TFA, they did NOT provide her with her meds.
So apparently, all they provided was an extremely bad environment for someone with a psychiatric problem to recover in.