A resident of Queens, said that his free lawyers and officials of the city jail put him on six months in Rikers, never mentioning, bail in his case was reduced from $ 50,000 to $ 1. Now Itabela Salem, who was arrested in 2014 for stealing a coat from Zara on Fifth Avenue, is suing in court in Manhattan.
In a lawsuit filed Monday, says that few judges of the state of new York lowered the Deposit in the amount of $ 50,000 within a few days after the arrest of a man in November 2014. But the free lawyers of Salem never mentioned this fact. Officials of the prison Rikers is also not considered necessary to inform the detainee.
Salem, who is currently serving time in state prison for theft, he learned that he could be released in less than a week after the arrest, only six months later.
He was released only due to the fact that some good-natured prison chaplain paid him a Deposit of $ 1.
Now Salem is suing his former lawyers and a prison on Rikers island for «illegal deprivation of liberty and restriction of liberty» and «psychological injury resulting in prison».
A lawyer of Salem, Velton Wisham, fears that not only his client suffered from similar injustice. He plans to find out there still in Rikers prisoners who could be out on bail, but are unable to do so.
