I posted this elsewhere and thought it deserved a screening here:


When I was working in Essex County NJ the cops would pick a guy up and bounce him from jail to jail to jail. The statutory Law in NJ says that the police have to present the defendant for his first appearance ( bail hearing) within the first 12 hours of arrest. However, typical of such laws across the nation, the Law does not say what happens if the police screw up.

The police make sure that it takes as long as three or four weeks to have your first appearance during which time the arrest victim will have gotten in a dozen fights, lost his shoes, missed several nights of sleep ( night transfers are very popular), missed a dozen meals, lost his job, been exposed to half a dozen contagious diseases ( flue is a favorite), been puked on by half a dozen cold-turkey junkies, and will be so well and truly defeated by this treatment that he is ready to plead to anything to just get it over with by the time his first appearance is scheduled.

Gitmo is a pleasure palace of earthly delights and wonders compared to the jails run by the Essex County Sheriff's office.