And in Arkansas, police are blaming an oversight for leaving a jailed undocumented immigrant without food, water or a toilet for four days. Adriana Torres-Flores spent ninety-six hours in an eight-by-nine-foot cell beginning last Thursday. A mother of three, Torres-Flores had been arrested for selling pirated CDs. She was forgotten in a holding cell after she pleaded not guilty. She slept on the floor, using her shoe for a pillow and having nothing to drink but her own urine. Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder said the episode would lead to changes at the jail.

Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder: “We’ve got to put in some stop-gap measures to make sure that, OK, if a guy forgets, what’s going to remind him that somebody’s in there? You know, do we monitor with a camera? Do we put a light out in the hallway that indicates there’s occupancy? It’s sad to say, but it takes an incident sometimes to alert you to shortcomings in what you’re doing. And, obviously, this has opened our eyes, and we’re committed to fixing it.”