Topic: Woman Could Go to Jail for Something She Did While in Jail for Something She Didn't Do
Anonymous A started this discussion 10 years ago#51,052
Plenty of people are chewed up and spit out by American prisons all the time. Few of them are chewed up, spit out, bitten into, swirled around, digested, regurgitated, and eaten yet again quite like Candie Hailey has been in the last several years.
Woman Spent Two Years in Solitary at Rikers and Three years total Before Court Found Her Not Guilty
Candie Hailey did a three-year pretrial stint at Rikers Island before facing a jury on charges of Attempted MURDER.
She maintained that she was a victim in the scuffle for which she was charged, and the court agreed with her, finding her not guilty in 2015. By that point, damage had already been done. Hailey’s jail term was characterized by psychological torment and outbursts at guards, and she spent nearly two entire years in solitary confinement. “My soul died,”
She attempted suicide several times, and regularly cut her wrists and banged her head against her cell wall.
Now, she may go back to jail for crimes she allegedly committed while imprisoned for those initial charges—charges of which she was found innocent. As of this week, Hailey is back on trial, this time for allegedly breaking a chair used to scan inmates’ body cavities at Rikers, the AP reports. She’s charged with felony criminal mischief—which carries a sentence of up to seven years in prison—as well as several misdemeanors.