At around 3:30 p.m. on June 3, 2020, 19-year-old Lacey Higdem was booked into the Rolette County, North Dakota, jail while under the influence of methamphetamine. She was an otherwise healthy young woman with a six-month-old...more
8/13/2025
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“About the same you’d get with a paper cut…I don’t see little cuts.”
“He’s going to get out in a couple days. He can go see his own doctor.”
“He looked like any seg inmate.”
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8/11/2020
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