More Matt... "Because of his complaint, his jailers operating under the theory of “you think where you are is bad, wait ’til you see this” transferred him to New York and put him in a worse cell that was totally enclosed with only a trap through which he could get fed, where he never saw another person but only heard their screams during the night. Brennan tried to compare it to what Whitey was now suffering, strip searches, lights on 24 hours, camera in his cell, and guards outside. I thought as he was doing it that Whitey is going to look back on his confinement at Plymouth as a walk in the park compared to where he will soon find himself. I know Brennan’s point was to get across the idea that Flemmi was a big baby complaining at everything and would do anything to ease his way through prison life, but it’s a point most jurors clearly understand by now. Although, it is a lesson to all of us that the power over one thrown into the hands of the faceless bureaucrats who run our prisons is immense and that some of the people who work for them are as brutal and sadistic as the worst of the prisoners."
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:57:07 +0000