MTWT - Chris | June 30, 2009
By: High Desert Advocate ~ June 19, 2009
…Currently NDOC lists ESP as having fifty open positions that were frozen as a result of budget concerns. In addition, ESP has replaced twenty four sworn correctional officers with correctional assistants who are not trained nor qualified to perform correctional staff duties. Mallory stated that members of the [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 30, 2009
Expert discounts notion of criminal enterprise
Smuggling drugs, operating gambling rings, orchestrating assaults, wearing lightning bolt tattoos and closing letters with the phrase, “love and respect,” these things are common to inmates across the United States, a prison gang expert testified Monday.
Some prisoners are gang members, others are not, said Daniel Vasquez, a former warden [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 29, 2009
Inmates at Ely State Prison have very few privileges. Most of the men housed in the general population units have very little to look forward to. Ely is a lockdown prison where the inmates are in their cells sometimes 24 hours a day.
Phone calls mean the world to the inmates. They [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 28, 2009
This came to us by email from the family of an inmate at ESP. The inmate takes medication for high blood pressure and two forms of nitro-glycerin for chest pain. The high blood pressure and chest pain started after being denied treatment for excruciating pain associated with degenerative disc disease. These are not medications that [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 24, 2009
Over the past few days, we have received several emails in reference to the “new visiting rules” that were introduced last weekend without warning at Three Lakes Valley Conservation Camp in Southern Nevada. It seems that the visiting room staff at Three Lakes feel they have the right to make up new rules as they [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 24, 2009
Normally, the defendants’ box in Judge Douglas Hedger’s courtroom is not an ideal place to be.
And with 30 arrests from 2000-2008, Richard Heavin knows that well — he’s entered the Henderson Municipal Court judge’s courtroom as a defendant on many occasions.
But today, the day after his 45th birthday, Heavin was honored to take his seat [read more...]
Rita | June 24, 2009
We have got several emails asking us how to write to an inmate in Nevada. There are several different questions that we are asked but the main one being what can you send and how do you address the envelope to an inmate in Nevada. Below is the simple instructions to make sure your letter [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 19, 2009
NOTE: This affects every inmate in the prison system with in the United State. The United States have basically said that it’s up to the different states if they want to allow the inmates access to DNA after conviction to clear themselves if innocent. I think with this ruling more people are going to be [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 19, 2009
NOTE: The medical staff at Ely State Prison should read this and take it to heart. There should have been some whistleblowers in that prison long before Patrick Cavanaugh was allowed to rot to death from medical neglect, or before those medical kites were sent back to the inmates, that were asking for help, that [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 18, 2009
NOTE: On July 1, 2009 the smoking ban in the Nevada prison system is scheduled to begin. Inmates nor staff will no longer be able to smoke on prison grounds. They are offering nothing to help with the anxiety that is going to engross these men/women by not being able to smoke and forced to [read more...]
Matt | June 16, 2009
Note: Ely State Prison is what you would call “permanent lockdown”, and basically these men are in solitary confinement 23 hours a day (most men 24 hours) 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Yes, they do have cellies in some cases, but both men are on permanent lockdown the same amount of time. [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 15, 2009
Nevada Prisoner Voice
“My name is Ronald Jenkins #48209, Nevada Department of Corrections. I am presently incarcerated at Ely State Prison in Ely , Nevada.
UPDATE: “I was transferred to High Desert State Prison 27 May 2009. I just got my property 1 June 09. I am only here for medical treatment! I’m still trying [read more...]
Rita | June 14, 2009
If there is anyone who knows of an incarcerated person or has previously been incarcerated that has left our prison system who has ALWAYS MAINTAINED THEIR INNOCENCE and was prosecuted by former Washoe County Assistant District Attorney/Federal Prosecutor Ronald Rachow please contact me.
In a recent development a Washoe County judge has ordered the District Attorney [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 11, 2009
EXCERPT FROM A NEW BOOK ON THE HORIZON:
SYSTEMATIC GENOCIDE
By Mercedes Maharis MA MS MA
Nevada Prisoner Voice
I’ve been trying to keep track of Nevada prisoner death statistics since my days as Nevada CURE Director and Spartacus Project Co-Founder, since the turn of this century. Nevada prisoner death has haunted both me and my [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 11, 2009
Government’s first witness testifies in Aryan Warriors racketeering trial
Defense attorneys for members of the Aryan Warriors on Tuesday denied that their clients belonged to a menacing prison gang aiming to take control of the prison system.
Instead, the collection of white inmates only banded together to protect themselves from other races inside the Nevada State Prison [read more...]
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