Filling in story of Fabian Schmidt

Filling in the story of Fabian Schmidt. For instance, getting out of immigration prison, and being gouged on food and phone calls for 2 months, cost him $65,000, while of course he was unable to work.

Every element of the immigration prison seems to be as inhumane as the government can make it. In effect, it is punishment before trial.

The article corrects a few details about his

The policy of jailing people for any minor offense from many years ago is a form of "zero tolerance". Repressive states like to adopt zero tolerance when it provides an excuse to punish harmless, powerless people.

Where zero-tolerance is called for is with continuing patterns of crime, such as theft of wages by employers, or (for thugs) unjustified violence against the public. Filing charges against someone for making a recording should be punished without fail. Not having per body camera recording at such times, likewise (though systems could activate them automatically at such times).

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