WA: Residents at Washington Civil Commitment Center Sue Over Contaminated Water
200 residents of the Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island, the State of Washington’s civil commitment center (where sex offenders are detained indefinitely) are plaintiffs in a Federal lawsuit over the quality of the water at the center.
The suit was originally brought in 2014 after one registrant contended the water had floating debris and caused severe stomach cramps, vomiting and other digestive problems. When he died, another resident took over the suit and most of the other residents joined in.
A federal judge dismissed the original case, but an appeals court sent the case back and on September 8, a judge appointed an attorney to represent the previously unrepresented residents.
As one resident told the News Tribune, “Just because we did a crime, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have clean water,”
Internment camp….. anyone remember those? How can this possibly be happening. How can anyone see this and turn a blind eye…. its happened before have we not learned our lesson as a civilization?
The conditions these poor American citizens are forced to live in are inhumane and would be immediately protested if they occurred in a third world country!
Yet, this endless confinement and torture are happening right here in the USA and sanctioned by the government! This is clearly the very definition of cruel and unusual PUNISHMENT and should be immediately stopped!
These individuals are being abused by a system that is designed to prevent them from ever escaping this living hell. How is this allowed to happen in a “free” society? I guess that it shows that no one really cares so we must take matters into our own hands if these deplorable conditions are to be stopped.
EVERY American deserves a second chance – if you have paid your debt to society then you should be allowed to pursue happiness just like everyone else.
The way most of the Country thinks, We’re lucky to get or have ANY kind of water or Quality of Life !!!. We’re the ONLY class of Criminal that the General Public and Government doesn’t believe deserve a 2nd Chance in life, Or deserve any Quality of Life !!. If it was up to “Most” of the Country, We’d all be hung or shot on sight !!. I hope the people wins the case, And I hope they are set free very soon. I couldn’t imagine having to live in a place like that !! Free but not free !!! Out or Prison, But still locked up FOR LIFE !!!, Wow. So sad to see what our country has reduced itself to… So Sad !!!
Civil commitment is nothing more than state sanctioned bondage. How these laws have ever passed legislative muster I cannot fathom. To hold someone indefinitely, with no real justification, long beyond their adjudicated sentence is the type of thing I was raised to believe was “in other countries” where they did not care about freedoms and the civil liberties of their people.
And then add to it the tainted water and you have a full blown concetration camp. We also have prisons in the US that are over-run with rats and other vermin. Welcome to hell folks because this country is headed that way…..
Okay, so does anyone have a complete list of the civilian commitment facilities – and does anyone send someone there copies of articles like this? I would think each facility should have at least one inmate advocate – or maybe we could cause these articles to be posted in their law libraries?