Captive: The first photo of imprisoned Marine, Jon Hammar, from his Mexican jail cell shows him with shackles on his leg. The image was sent to Hammar's family from an anonymous email account
Chained To A Bed In One Of Mexico's Most Notorious Prisons: First Picture Of U.S. Marine Jailed For Four Months After Carrying Antique Gun Across Border -- Christian Science Monitor
* The email with the photo was sent anonymously to John Hammar's mother from a Yahoo.mx account
* Hammar, 27, was arrested in August for carrying an antique rifle that had belonged to his great-grandfather
* Hammar, a Marine, had served in Iraq and Afghanistan
* He was suffering from PTSD after the death of a fellow Marine in Fallujah
* His parents have appealed to Florida lawmakers, who are asking for the State Department to get involved
The first photo of Marine Veteran Jon Hammar, held captive in one of Mexico’s most infamous prisons for four months, has been released to the public.
The photo shows Hammar, 27, in a solitary cell inside Matamoros state prison in Tamaulipas, shirtless, barefoot and chained by handcuffs around his right ankle.
He was photographed sitting on an thin mattress with a red blanket in a room with chipped walls and a squalid floor. He does not appear to have any visible injuries.
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Update: This is how Mexico confines U.S. Marine veteran in its prison -- McClatchy News
My Comment: This is wrong on so many levels.
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