After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail
After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail
NYPD arrested 282 protesters at Columbia and the City College of New York. Two college protesters were placed in solitary confinement.
Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside.
Other students reported that they were beaten by New York City Police Department officers after their arrests and taken to the hospital for injuries before being returned to central booking. Photos of the injuries were provided to The Intercept.
Other students reported that they were held in mouse-infested cells, along with the general population of the jail. The students told the professors that they weren’t given water or food for 16 hours and that at least one student was left without shoes for the same period of time.
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The denied water part seems strange. Most American jails have water fountain toilet combos like this:
That is not a general population holding cell. That is the nicest jail cell I have seen.
I wouldn't be surprised if that image is a jail for "white collar" crimes or not even in the US
The cell itself is pretty nice and non gen pop but I was more so just using it because it was one of the first pictures that popped up showing one.
The first picture you find ≠ most American jails.
I wasn't using image search as a research tool I was using to pick out a visual aid. Jails (and prisons) typically use a combo toilet sink as it simplifies plumbing, and the sink/fountain means that guards don't have to actively provide inmates with water as they readily have access to it.
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I am well aware of the difference between jails, prisons, and holding cells.
Any of the above without at least a toilet would be highly unusual because that would mean the jailors, guards, or etc would need to escort held persons out of their cell to a restroom every time they said they needed to go to the restroom. Creating more labor and a security risk. Or have inmates defecate in their cell creating a health & safety risk to staff and those held. Without a potable water source staff would need to escort people to one or bring some to the cell each time someone requested.
Well it's good to know you are a cop (BS of CJ), as it means you aren't an engineer. Given that I have designed jails, courthouses, and police stations I can say that your BS means basically nothing in this as you are mostly trained in criminal law rather than building code.
Holding time, local building code, and CA budget are the biggest constraints for the buildings in question. 4-8hrs holding period does not require and often doesn't get a plumbing connection.
Both of you STFU. Walk away from your computer, go touch grass. The worst of Reddit doesn't have to follow us here
This is quite an ironic comment.
I've been in cells without toilets or water. They're designed for temporary holding (an hour or so), for things like waiting on transportation or intake, for example.
Wtf do you mean by most?
Yea and even the holding cells have those. Usually behind a half wall where it's not really private but its sorta blocking your business.
Those sink/toilet combos are what had Dems claiming migrants were "drinking out of toilets".
Jesus Christ dude
What?
I see this thread got brigaded by down voters.
You went out of your way to make it political. The thread was not "brigaded", people just don't like that shit
If it makes you feel any better I am very much a Democrat. So it was a little bit of criticizing "my own team" so to speak.
But I can see how it reads in hindsight. Haha I sound like my grandpa at Thanksgiving.