The article is pretty one-sided, relying heavily on what his lawyer says--and she magnifies every ailment into the worst case, of course. Even though it is his lawyer who says so, I'll accept that he is in solitary. Solitary, by the estimates I've seen, is 3x more expensive than keeping someone in the general prison population. Since York was nailed for "transporting minors across States for the purpose of sexual molestation," I wonder if he's in solitary for his own safety.
Anyhow, the interesting bit is a letter from Charles Taylor dated 1999 appointing York as Consul General of Liberia to Atlanta, and which York was relying on for diplomatic immunity.
There's no evidence of a quid pro quo, but given that this was Liberia under Taylor, I assume York paid for the privilege.
I thought Get Out of Jail Free cards were just a Monopoly invention. I hadn't thought of this angle. Apparently the State Dept. has seen that scam before.
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Even if it's for his safety, solitary is very tough on the psyche.
So I've heard. But what can you do? There are prisoners who make prison a lethal hell for the others, and you owe it to those you expect to release into society eventually not to let them be treated that way.
I wonder how much of the horrors prisoners do to each other is the devil finding work for idle hands, especially idle hands run by minds that either had no empathy to begin with or carefully squelched it for whatever reason.
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