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The Matzav Network is reporting that Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin was placed in solitary confinement after his cell mate threatened to kill him.

Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin Placed in Solitary Confinement

The Matzav Network is reporting that Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin was placed in solitary confinement after his cell mate threatened to kill him.



Matzav.com Exclusive Report By Dovid Bernstein:

Word has leaked out from the Linn County Correctional Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that R’ Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, who has been denied bail pending his sentencing, has been placed in solitary confinement. This absolutely shocking revelation compounds the already continuous travesty of justice in the Rubashkin case, as has been recorded and analyzed here on Matzav.com over the past few months.

This recent horrific action came after Sholom Mordechai was suddenly forced to share his cell with a new prisoner who was transferred from another jail after the authorities there could not keep him under control. It is said that this prisoner has been jailed for assaulting a family member of his.

This new roommate of Sholom Mordechai’s immediately expressed his hatred for his Jewish counterpart, calling him “dirty Jew.” The thug physically threw Sholom Mordechai – while he was wearing his tallis and davening – across the room, stating that he was going to kill him. Sholom Mordechai expressed to those with whom he spoke that he was – and is – afraid for his very life.

The prison authorities, in an appalling response to the thug’s actions, claimed that it “takes two to tango” and that the incident was as much the fault of Sholom Mordechai as it was this violent, convicted criminal. The authorities subsequently placed Sholom Mordechai in solitary confinement.

It should be noted that Sholom Mordechai, whose imprisonment pending his sentencing is altogether inexcusable and unfounded, has been a model citizen and completely cooperative from the day he was taken, in handcuffs, from the courthouse following his trial.

“People don’t realize what goes on in a jail,” an askan told Matzav.com this evening. “It is not a ‘country club’ jail out there in Cedar Rapids. It is a frightening experience, where an inmate such as Sholom Mordechai is filled with fear for his life and has every reason to be terrified of the criminals with whom he has been jailed.”

When he was first placed in solitary confinement, Sholom Mordechai was not allowed any communication with family and friends. He now sits in a cell with nothing but a cement block on which to sleep and a skimpy towel to use as a “pillow” – all because of the ghastly actions of an anti-Semite.

Sholom Mordechai, based on what has leaked from the prison, is permitted to leave his cell for 30 minutes a day, when he is brought together with others who are also in solitary confinement – surely not a pleasant or safe experience for a frum, yarmulke-clad, bearded Jew.

Solitary confinement can last from five to ten days.

This latest move is a clear violation of Sholom Mordechai’s rights as a prisoner, because, as mentioned, he has followed every directive since being imprisoned.

The Jewish community has already expressed profound concern and dismay over the harsh position taken by federal prosecutors in Iowa with respect to the pre-sentencing detention of Sholom Mordechai. In light of numerous objective factors that make it clear that Sholom Mordechai is not a flight risk, and in light of certain compelling personal and familial considerations that render his pre-sentencing detention particularly cruel, the prosecutors’ ongoing insistence that Sholom Mordechai remain incarcerated through the long months he awaits sentencing is unjustifiable and even inhumane.

Last year, Sholom Mordechai was imprisoned for 76 days prior to his trial, also on the ostensible theory that he was a flight risk. Eventually, the District Judge agreed that pre-trial detention was inappropriate.

Although Sholom Mordechai complied with every detail of the terms under which he was ultimately released before trial, the District Judge, at the urging of the prosecution, imprisoned him again after the jury’s verdict – as a result of which Sholom Mordechai has been held in prison since November 12, 2009, pending his sentencing. His appeal from that decision is now pending, after an unexplained denial by three Circuit Judges, before the full Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

This latest horrendous decision by the Linn County Correctional Center is disturbing and wrong. May Hashem watch over Sholom Mordechai.

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30 Comments

  • Source

    Some people love to watch a Jew suffer.
    They enjoy, when his fellow yidden beg for his freedom.
    What could you do if the “Judge” is one of them?

  • horrific

    a tragedy.a real tragedy. Im crying….I think its time for the Jewish people to leave america…no longer the goldene medina

  • yossel zilberman

    Were is all the connections? Shemtovs? Krinskys? Duchmans? Chabad as a whole? Is it all talk!!

  • hashem should help

    hashem ishmor and save him right now. we can handle it anymore!!! imach shmam those goym!!!

  • badusername

    OMGosh, how horrible!!! Why didn’t they put the THUG in solitary??? OTOH, I wouldn’t want to be around those people!

  • To Horrific

    The next flight to Israel is in a few hours. We’ll welcome you here with open arms. Are you ready to act upon your words?

  • Bored

    Our Rabbanim are of course dealing with more important things – like Mi Borosh.
    And don’t forget, copepods in the water is what is truly threatening Judaism.

  • AD MOSAI

    This is direct result from Jews in crown heights
    Not stopping the Nazi yarmulke and pin wearing
    Going to court saying their lies to try imprisoned
    Our fellow JEWS from Crown Heights

  • fp

    Where is peta now that a human being is being denied basic human rights?My heart goes out to him and his family may Hasham make a miricle and help him now we all have to stick together as a unit and try to help in whatever way we can right or wrong whatever you believe he has basic human rights that are being denied to him and his family.

  • genug shoyn

    Time for him to sue. This is ridiculous. And yes, Obamerica is no paradise; it is not the malchus shel chessed that the Rebbe spoke of. If he gets in again, RUN!!

  • human and animal rights

    wheres PETA????? They care about animal rights but what about inhumane cruelty to human rights???????????????????

  • chaim

    Rachmono Lizland!!

    I think that the Goyim working in jail are themselves low elements (if not – they should have been doctors or accountans or lawyers) and simply have no Seichel in there heads

  • Where is the ACLU?

    NOrmally the ACLU, Americian Civil Liberties Union, would be yelling if someone is being the subjkect of in your face racism as it seems Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin has been. However in my opinion they could care less about anti-semitism. The ACLU are too busy saving cop killers and jew killers than to care about us.

  • PETITION NOW

    Please post a PETITION that we can all sing to .
    Like the one for Martin Grossman.
    Every small act can help !
    We have to show how inhumane their choice of actions are .
    It’s totally inhumane and we’ll do everything we can to stop it !

  • MW

    Mr yossel zilberman.
    Before you write a comment and look ignorant please do some research.
    I can’t talk for all the above mentioned but I do know that the Duchman family’s has been very supportive financially and emotionally of SM Rubashkin and family through out this terrible ideal.

    Remember Research stops ignorance.
    Thank you.

  • CRB

    There is only one thing to do: a well-written, well researched expose of the entire story until now, by a recognized expert in the legal or journalistic world, to be published in the wall st journal and/or as a book. Ignorance and lack of outside publicity are the biggest obstacles to winning this battle.

  • SHOCKING!!!

    Don’t the Jewish people have an “Al Sharpton”? Maybe HE will be willing to do something since WE cannot get our act together!!
    This is such a disgrace! Now I finally know how the holocaust ended up the way it did!!!AM YISROEL CHAI!!

  • Wake up Yiddin from your dreams of golus

    smr is not the only victim here. It’s his family, its his friends, its his neighbors, his community and his nation. Am Yisroel!! wake up!

  • DESGUSTING!

    I just can’t believe this has all started from some stupid lies several reshaim made up! As said in the article, may HaShem listen and watch over Sholom Mordechai. HaShem, please: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! AD MOSAI! AD MOSAI! AD MOSAI!
    We want Moshiach NOW!

  • Moshiach NOW!

    “This recent horrific action came after Sholom Mordechai was suddenly forced to share his cell with a new prisoner who was transferred from another jail after the authorities there could not keep him under control”
    They were hoping Sholom Mordechai would be a good influence on him and maybe HE could“ keep him under control”!

    What a disgrace the American justice system has become or for that matter is!“History repeats itself” is right! We need Moshiach NOW!!!

  • cant be happening

    People should sign a Letter to the President asking him to Pardon this man and then we will really find out how Barack Obama feals about the jews. I bet he wont pardon him Jonathan Pollard is still in jail and I bet he wont pardon him aswell.

  • AD MOSAAAI?

    HASHEM!!! why would you let such a thing happen???? i dont understandddd plese HASHEM take him out!!!!!! ADDD MOSAIII????????????????????