574-Pound Man Argues He's Too Overweight For Jail

574-Pound Man Argues He's Too Overweight For Jail

POSTED: 7:03 am EST December 6, 2005

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- A man who allowed his home to be used to store crack cocaine that was shipped by mail was sentenced to 14 years in prison, federal officials said.

Michael Washington, 32, pleaded guilty last January to making his home available for the storage of crack cocaine, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney's office.

Washington, who weighs 574 pounds, argued during sentencing that he was too obese and in too poor of health to be adequately cared for in prison, and requested home confinement. However, the court said the agency was capable of addressing his medical needs.

Prosecutors said he admitted that in October 2001 he and his wife tried to obtain a package of crack sent from a source in California through the U.S. mail.

http://www.local6.com/news/5474170/detail.html

She wrote a gazillion bad checks and was given jail time. The jail found a reinforced bed for her.

...not on a diet of two stale bologna sandwiches per day.

Oh well.

Restricted calories, time for exercise.

He might come out a new man.

he should think of it as health & fitness camp

could a 99-pound man argue he is too small for prison and the agency can't provide adequate protection for him?

...and neither should the other tens of thousands of people doing decades-long sentences on drug charges.

End the drug war. Period.

On edit: The number of people in jail or prison on drug charges last year was more than 530,000.