excerpt from Mirror article: NOVEMBER 20, 2013
Freedom without justice
By Leigh Tauss
Imagine a concrete box called home, orange mystery slop meals, shuffling in chains until you forget how to walk without them, consistently being beaten sometimes to the point of urinating blood and denied sunlight until nearly blind.
Let’s face it: Most of us couldn’t make it one day in solitary confinement on death row in a supermax prison, but Damien Echols spent 18 years there –- all for a crime he did not commit.
“From the moment you wake up you’re furious, thinking, ‘These people have no right to do this to me. I’m not supposed to be here,’” said Echols, describing his first few years incarcerated.
Echols, his wife Lorri Davis and attorney Stephen Braga ‘78 closed out The Regina A. Quick Center’s Open Visions forum for the fall semester with a panel discussing the corruption of the criminal justice system, the brutality of prison conditions and what life Echols has forged since being set free.
Read the whole article, more about the trial, death row, justice, freedom, and aftermath here:
http://fairfieldmirror.com/2013/11/20/freedom-without-justice/
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