Thank you, Mr. Rathgeber. I could simply answer that by saying no, it has never happened to me. And I can say that in my experience, I have never heard any other defence counsel tell me of that happening to them. I repeat that in general, people want to get out. They don't want to stay in. They don't want to stay in a situation where they are sleeping on a floor, where there might be human excrement right next to their head because the toilet is overflowing. While there might be one or two stories out there of people who have tried to do what they can to stay in longer--and I have not heard of those stories personally--they do not speak for the majority of people who are in custody.
On May 25th, 2009. See this statement in context.