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In April 2012, 23-year-old college student Daniel Chong was detained during a drug raid at a friend's house in San Diego. After a short interrogation, DEA agents told him he wasn't a suspect and would be released soon. Then they put him in a small holding cell to wait. And they forgot about him. For five agonizing days, Chong sat handcuffed in a windowless cell with no food, no water and no toilet. When he realized no one was coming to release him, he began shouting and kicking the door. To survive, he drank his own urine. Soon he began to hallucinate, and for the last two days, he sat in complete darkness. When agents finally opened the door, they found him severely dehydrated, with his kidneys failing. He had lost 15 pounds. The DEA apologized, and a year later, the government paid him $4.1 million. Before they found him, convinced he was going to die, he had broken his glasses and used a shard to carve two words into his arm: "Sorry Mom."