A 25-year-old college student has reached a US$4.1m settlement with the US government after he was abandoned in a windowless cell for more than four days without food or water.
Daniel Chong told how he drank his own urine to stay alive, hallucinated that agents were trying to poison him with gases through the vents and tried to carve a farewell message to his mother in his arm.
It remained unclear how the situation occurred and no one had been disciplined, said Eugene Iredale, an attorney for Chong. The justice department's inspector general is investigating.
"It sounded like it was an accident – a really, really bad, horrible accident," Chong said.
Read more here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/prisoner-abandoned-cell-payout-millions
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