April 3, 1998

After completing the maximum sentence for contempt, Susan McDougal again refused to testify before Kenneth Starr’s grand jury, but, in 1999, she was found not guilty of obstruction of justice and ordered to be released. McDougal became famous in the 1990s for refusing to testify before Starr and the Office of Independent Counsel (OIC) grand jury held in Little Rock (Pulaski County) during the Whitewater scandal investigation. She spent approximately twenty-two months in seven jails, including maximum-security prisons with violent offenders. She was also held for seven weeks in a Plexiglas-enclosed soundproof cell, an experience she described as “hellish.”