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David A. Bardes was mistakenly (or purposely) jailed for child support arrears he did not owe, then frozen into a coma. The jailers put him into a hypothermic cell used to subdue rioting inmates.

Bush’s torture memo says hypothermia can’t be used longer than one hour, then the prisoner must be warmed.  Bardes was left for 2 days.  He almost died.  When he was found he was dumped into a suicide watch room for two more days when he should have been in a hospital.

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Tortured for child support arrears

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Torture in jail is not as rare as one might suspect.� David A. Bardes is just one of tens of thousands who responded when True Equality Network asked the question, “Were you tortured while incarcerated?”

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As he lay in the jail’s suicide watch room Bardes took an inventory of his body parts.

My right leg was charlie-horsed in pain and not working that well, my right forearm was the same way, my left index finger was not responding, and I could not keep my left eyelid open. I also had little feeling from the waist downward. My body�s nervous system was out of whack and kept sending signals to my nerve nodes causing involuntary muscle spasms. My brain was coming back on line and was re-programming itself to see if it had command of all of the body�s various functions.

The medical staff knew they had a problem.� A ‘Refusal Form’ was filled out, and every single worker signed it as witnesses. One nurse even signed it twice, Bardes says, because she was so “freaked out.”� He adds, “They went to great lengths to cover their liability should I have died while in their care.”

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David A. Bardes recalls April 2006 when he almost died in a Charleston County jail.� Put there for child support, he was left in a hypothermic chamber for over 30 hours.

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I began to lose parts of my memory. I was trying to �think� of things and events to keep my brain alive, but each time I thought of something it would disappear with a snap. I was losing memories at an increasing pace. I knew the end was near and I thought of my two children.

Then the memory of my son disappeared and my last thought of my life was of my daughter. I held onto my daughter until the end. My respirations were shallow and my heartbeats had slowed. I slipped into hypothermic coma, a death-like condition that occurs before bodily death.

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