Oh yeah! That woman in the cell!

Hour after hour, for four full days, Adriana Torres-Flores was locked away and forgotten in 8 1/2-by-9 1/2-foot cell in the Washington County Courthouse, with only a metal table, two benches and a light bulb that never went out. She had nothing to eat or drink. There was no toilet. Thursday passed. Then Friday, Saturday and Sunday - although Torres-Flores had no watch to tell the time. She slept on the floor with her head on a shoe.

She drank her own urine, she said.

Panicked and afraid she would die, Torres-Flores pounded on the steel door with her hands and feet, and yelled. No one heard her. The threat of snow had thinned the courthouse staff Friday.

The building was closed all weekend. Full Story

How much would this suck? It would be different if she was a horrible woman, but she was only sent to jail for selling pirated mu- sic CDs at Pleasant Flea Market. It will be interesting to see how this whole thing turns out.

Kudos to Boing Boing’s y Xeni Jardin for pointing this out.

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