Stephen Slevin spent two years in New Mexico’s Dona Ana County Jail for driving while intoxicated. In prison he was forced to pull his own tooth while in solitary confinement because he was denied access to dentist. For inhumane treatment he was awarded with $ 22 million.
nbcnewyork reports :
A man who spent two years in solitary confinement after getting arrested for DWI was awarded $22 million for suffering inhumane treatment in New Mexico’s Dona Ana County Jail.
The $22 million settlement, awarded by a federal jury on Tuesday, is one of the largest prisoner civil rights settlements in U.S. history, according to KOB.com.
“I wanted people to know that there are people at The Dona Ana County Jail that are doing things like this to people and getting away with it,” Slevin, who now suffers from PTSD and believes he will have to take medication for life as a result, said. “Why they did what they did, I have no idea.”
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