[COMMUNICATED]
Prison is no place for a frum Jew.
It’s 6am and the bright lights turn on to wake up the inmates. Mordechai Freuchter* awakes and whispers “modeh ani” quietly, terrified to begin another day.
Freuchter was wrongly accused of a crime months ago, and has since been awaiting his trial in jail. The trial is delayed because his family does not have the money they need for legal fees. Several prominent rabbis have vouched for Mordechai’s innocence, and expressed their horror that he remains in jail.
The young father of 5 walks down the prison hallway on the way to the cafeteria and a fellow inmate knocks his yarmulke off of his head. The inmates in the hallway laugh, taunting him.
“Where’s your friend Hashem now?,” they ask, pushing him against the wall.
It is a terrifying routine, and a far cry from the regular family life Mordechai led not long ago. The conditions in the prison are generally horrific, and being religious makes Freuchter into an obvious target.
An urgent pidyon shvuyim fund has been opened to provide the family with the legal fees they need. Without this help, Mordechai could die in jail.
*Name changed the protect the family’s privacy
Why would he die in jail when the state provides a free counsel to every person in jail?
As long as he is innocent it shouldnt be too difficult to present his case.
Would that only be so. When someone is wrongly accused of a crime and winds up getting a public defender for free, the chance of them actually being proven innocent are quite slim. Our “justice” system is far from being real justice.
you are so unfamiliar with the justice system you are quite naive to believe that if your innocent you will be easily vindicated
for a small example just look at the case of rabbi meir eiseman where he is innocent and he is having to spend millions
of dollars and he still hasnt been vindicated yet
Without his real name or knowledge of the crime there is zero reason to believe he is inncoent