From 1964 to 1992, Texaco (now Chevron) dumped approximately 16 billion gallons of toxic wastewater and 17 million gallons of crude oil into Ecuador's Amazon, contaminating water for 30,000 indigenous people. Attorney Steven Donziger won a $9.5 billion judgment. Chevron refused to pay and launched a legal war — getting Donziger disbarred and jailed using a private prosecutor (after the federal prosecutor declined). Donziger spent 993 days in detention. Amnesty International and 68 Nobel laureates called his treatment a human rights violation.