posted on July 24, 2004 04:41:21 AM new
I have to get off the "them vs. us" track today. I read this story and re-read it. It's just as bizzare to me as it was when I first saw it.
"The mother of accused serial killer Maury Travis filed a lawsuit against the prison in May for her son's alleged suicide, claiming among other things that the architects who designed the cellblock made it unusually difficult for guards to peek in on inmates on a "suicide watch," such as her son. However, Travis' "suicide" actually revealed a remarkably focused man: According to news reports, Travis is said to have hanged himself with a bedsheet, but with a pillowcase over his head, toilet paper in his nostrils, a washcloth in his mouth, and his hands tied behind him."
Now, this one I don't even want to try and imagine:
"Officials investigating an explosion inside Villa Hermosa prison in Cali, Colombia, in May (which killed three inmates and wounded 15) concluded, using the process of elimination, that the only way the grenade could have gotten into the facility was to have been smuggled in by a certain, unnamed female visitor earlier that day. According to a Reuters News Service dispatch, authorities concluded that she must have hidden the grenade in a body cavity because that's the only place guards are not allowed to search."
Cheryl
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country. - Benjamin Franklin
posted on July 24, 2004 02:48:53 PM new
Hi Cheryl, I guess if one is determined to kill themselves a way can be found. The family suing the prison? Are prisoners a ward of the state when they enter? I'm not sure, but if so, if they need to provide adequate care. If not, they should and do get sued. But if it were somebody in my family who did that, I dont think logically I would sue--because I'd feel he DID what HE set out to accomplish. (But money talks, all the rest rides the merry-go-round)
posted on July 24, 2004 03:58:19 PM new
I wonder if he tied his hands behind his back before he killed himself or after?????????????????????????????????/
