Ryan Zink

And I'm getting very sick.

Well, then one day they finally they let me out for a shower.

And of course, somebody goes in my cell and I'm thinking, you know, they're probably just doing an inspection or something like that.

Well, what had actually happened was, is they tried to kill me.

They went in and they placed raw pieces of chicken inside of my water line to where I would turn on the faucet and the water would come out and it would go past the raw pieces of chicken.

And I didn't figure this out for... I don't really know when, like how many days it was because I had no sense of time because I didn't have a tablet.

I didn't have anything that other prisoners were allowed to be afforded because I was all the way at the end.

And...

The only way that I knew this was because I was drinking out of that bag that my soap came in and a little piece fell out.

And I was able to stick my toothbrush, my little government-issued two-inch toothbrush up inside of there and knock all of that chicken out.

And there were three pieces about this big inside of there.

And mind you, I went in at like—since I got out of prison, obviously, I've been eating a little bit.

But I went in at like 180.

I came out at like 130 pounds.

I would get out— You lost 50 pounds?

50 pounds in custody in Washington, D.C.

When you consider like stress, not eating, just the overwhelming amount of stress, like having nosebleeds all the time from the chemicals that are in my food, throwing up all the time because my stomach hurts and I don't have anything to keep it down, being denied medical at all, never allowed to have a medical form, never allowed to have a grievance form, nothing.

Like we were isolated alone, left there to die.

I thought I was going to die.

As I say it before you now, I thought there was a point in time where I was going to die.