What happened to Imhotep Muhammad is a crime. A court of law found him not guilty of aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer. But the 36-year-old spent 26 months behind bars in Dauphin County Prison, anyway.
Our legal system says a person is innocent until proven guilty, but for poor people like Muhammad, it’s an empty and bitter slogan.
PennLive’s Joshua Vaughn reports Muhammad spent most his more than two years in jail inside his cell – almost 24 hours a day – without sunlight or fresh air. You don’t need a battery of medical studies to tell you what month after month of that can do to your health…