Anonymousabout 13 hours ago
U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui publicly apologized to Cole Allen, the man charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, after learning Allen had been held in five-point restraints, a padded safe cell with 24-hour lighting, and solitary confinement despite being cleared of suicide risk. The incident spotlights longstanding dysfunction at the D.C. jail — a facility where the in-custody death rate is 3.5 times the national average — and raises fundamental questions about where legitimate security measures end and unconstitutional pretrial punishment begins.