Imagine enduring long hours on a cramped bus, shackled and with no idea where you’re going or when you will arrive, surviving on cold bologna sandwiches. You find yourself transported through seemingly random routes, only to be confined in dark holding cells where you may spend weeks at a time, cut off from the outside world. Your family is left helpless, unable to reach you or receive updates about your well-being. Your attorney, too, cannot locate you for weeks or even months. This is the grim reality for inmates in the federal prison system—an experience commonly referred to as “diesel therapy,” notorious for being one of the most cruel and difficult aspects of incarceration.
Or consider being charged by the DOJ for online speech, becoming a political prisoner who disappears without a trace. This chilling scenario highlights the disturbing lack of accountability and…
