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MTWT - Chris | July 25, 2009

RE: Assemblyman Harvey Munford D-Las Vegas Nevada
Assembly Bill 424
The idea that The Director of Prison’s should play a part in determine parole eligibility for inmates is way out of line.  It is the perfect example of Nevada’s entire judicial problem, cronyism and conflict of interest!
Assemblyman Harvey Munford, D-Las Vegas [read more...]

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Tags: Corrections Officer, Corruption, Director of Prisons, Howard Skolnik, human rights, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nevada Judicial System, Nevada Prisons, Parole, Parole and Probation, Parole Board, prison, Prison Director, Skolnik

Editor - Lisa | July 24, 2009

Despite a newly imposed ban on smoking at Nevada prisons, American Indians will still be able to puff tobacco in their ceremonial pipes during their religious ceremonies.
Howard Skolnik, director of the state Department of Corrections, has told a state advisory Indian committee that the pipe smoking practice will be allowed to continue as long as [read more...]

Category: Nevada Prison News | 1 Comment »
Tags: American Indian, Carson City, ceremonial pipes, Corruption, Ely State Prison, ESP, Howard Skolnik, human rights, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nevada Prisons, NSP, prison, Prison Director, Smoking ban

MTWT - Chris | July 17, 2009

By Coyote Sheff
Sitting in solitary for years and years, I’ve learned that an active mind is a dangerous mind, but I think having an inactive mind, under these conditions is even more dangerous and very harmful to ourselves.
Surrounded by madness and perversion, these guards and this administration seems to want us [read more...]

Category: Coyote Sheff, General Information | 1 Comment »
Tags: Anarchism, anarchist, conditions of confinement, Corruption, cruel and unusual punishment, E.K. McDaniel, Ely State Prison, ESP, first amendment rights, human rights, intellectual death sentence, kite, Las Vegas, Misconduct, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nevada Prisons, prison, solitary, solitary confinement, stagnation, unauthorized mail, violating our constitutional rights

Matt | July 16, 2009

Nevada’s prisons chief said Thursday he’s joining in a national effort to get Congress to let states use signal-jamming technology to control illegal cell phone use by convicts.
Corrections Director Howard Skolnik says state lawmakers in 2007 imposed criminal penalties for bringing cell phones into prisons and giving them to inmates. But he said the ability [read more...]

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Tags: Corruption, escape, Federal Communications Commission, Howard Skolnik, illegal cell phone use, Kenneth "Jody" Thompson, Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nevada Prisons, Northern Nevada Correctional Center, prison, Prison Director, signal-jamming technology, Skolnik

Rita | July 16, 2009

State embraces an outside set of eyes on its strapped system
A nonprofit group will be allowed to closely study the state Corrections Department and recommend ways to improve the system, officials decided this week.
Howard Skolnik, the department’s director, is working on an agreement with the Vera Institute of Justice for a two-year study of the [read more...]

Category: General Information, Nevada Prison News | 1 Comment »
Tags: conditions of confinement, cruel and unusual punishment, E.K. McDaniel, Ely State Prison, ESP, Gibbons, Gov. Jim Gibbons, High Desert State Prison, Howard Skolnik, human rights, Las Vegas, medical care, Medical Issues, medical neglect, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nevada Prisons, NNCC, NSP, prison, Prison Director, VERA Institute of Justice, Warden

Matt | July 15, 2009

In an unusual move, the Nevada Supreme Court Tuesday ordered a Las Vegas woman released from prison.
The order comes a month after the court reversed the conviction of Joy Winston as an habitual criminal, concluding the state failed to present sufficient evidence to support the jury verdict.
Winston, 52, was convicted of burglary for allegedly trying [read more...]

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Tags: Clark County District Court, cruel and unusual punishment, failed to present sufficient evidence to support the jury verdict, Florence McClure Women's Correctional, habitual criminal, human rights, Joy Winston, Las Vegas, Mark Gibbons, Michael Cherry, Nancy Saitta, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nevada Prisons, Nevada Supreme Court, prison

MTWT - Chris | July 14, 2009

For the Record
Meeting of the Board of Prison Commissioners
July 14, 2009
To the Members of the Prison Commission and the Public,
Since last meeting, April 14th, nothing has changed that I have noticed: inmates in Ely State Prison are still not being treated properly for serious medical problems, the prison is [read more...]

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Tags: conditions of confinement, cruel and unusual punishment, E.K. McDaniel, Ely State Prison, ESP, Howard Skolnik, human rights, Las Vegas, medical care, Medical Issues, medical neglect, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nevada Prisons, prison, Prison Director, Skolnik, Warden

MTWT - Chris | July 14, 2009

Note: This was emailed to us by a wife of an inmate that has been dealing with the Nevada Prison system for a number of years. After finding Make The Walls Transparent, she had to the urge to write to us and the anger she has built up in that time can clearly be read [read more...]

Category: General Information, Owl Song | 1 Comment »
Tags: conditions of confinement, Corruption, cruel and unusual punishment, Ely State Prison, ESP, High Desert State Prison, human rights, Jean, Las Vegas, Lovelock Correctional Center, medical care, Medical Issues, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nevada Prisons, NNCC, NSP

MTWT - Chris | July 14, 2009

By Coyote Sheff
It is 3:07 a.m. as I sit here in this cold silence of another imprisoned November night, I can hear the echoes of the ghetto life ringing clearly in my head; the gunshots, the sirens, the dogs barking the helicopters. It has been years since I’ve been in the [read more...]

Category: Coyote Sheff, General Information | 1 Comment »
Tags: atrocity, conditions of confinement, Coyote Sheff, cruel and unusual punishment, E.K. McDaniel, Ely State Prison, ESP, human rights, Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nevada Prisons, prison

MTWT - Chris | July 14, 2009

The guard towers surrounding state prisons may close and medical care to inmates could be curtailed to comply with the state’s monthly furloughs.
The state Board of Examiners on Tuesday gave Howard Skolnik, director of the state Department of Corrections, another 30 days to figure how he will meet the requirement, passed by the Nevada Legislature, [read more...]

Category: General Information, Nevada Prison News | 2 Comments »
Tags: Clark, conditions of confinement, cruel and unusual punishment, E.K. McDaniel, Elko, Ely State Prison, Employment Security Division, ESP, Gov. Jim Gibbons, High Desert State Prison, Howard Skolnik, human rights, Las Vegas, medical care, Medical Issues, medical neglect, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, NNCC, NSP, prison, Prison Director, Ross Miller, Skolnik, Stewart Conservation Camp

MTWT - Chris | July 12, 2009

Here he comes again, his hands covered in heavy black mittens, his head stuffed into a net that makes him look like a beekeeper, his legs and wrists closed in shackles.
Clark County Detention Center officers dress him this way because he has been known to spit, throw punches and kick.
The inmate shuffles through a sliding [read more...]

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Tags: Clark County Detention Center, death, Dr. Keith Courtney, human rights, inmates, Las Vegas, medical care, mentally ill, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, prison, suicide

MTWT - Lucy | July 12, 2009

By Coyote Sheff
Note: This is in part a response to a poster on the Ely Times Message Board who calls himself Localboy76 (Click the link to see the posts he is responding.)

It is important what Local Boy 76 said about how prison has tendencies turn officers into animals…
I find it hilarious how people try [read more...]

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Tags: conditions of confinement, Corruption, Coyote Sheff, cruel and unusual punishment, E.K. McDaniel, Ely State Prison, ESP, human rights, Las Vegas, Marritte Funches, Misconduct, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nevada Prisons, prison, Warden

MTWT - Lucy | July 11, 2009

July 2009 Meeting of the Board of State Prison Commissioners
Date of Meeting: Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Time of Meeting: 2:00 p.m.
Meeting Locations:
State Capitol Building
2nd floor
101 N. Carson Street
Carson City, NV
Annex Video Conference:
Grant Sawyer State Office Bldg.
Room 5100
555 East Washington Ave.
Las Vegas, NV
I. Call to Order.
*II. Acceptance and Approval of Minutes – April 14, 2009.
III. Report [read more...]

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MTWT - Chris | July 10, 2009

Update on Dewey Jones
We are constantly hearing from the news media that the prisons are understaffed and underfunded. Other states are looking at solutions to the massive prison building expansion of the last decades. One such solution is to release nonviolent offenders who are nearing their out date or to release people who could have [read more...]

Category: Dewey Jones, Medical Issues | No Comments »
Tags: Board Certified Neurologist, Carson City, conditions of confinement, Corruption, cruel and unusual punishment, crushed spine, Dewey Jones, Gov. Jim Gibbons, Howard Skolnik, human rights, Karen Walsh, Las Vegas, medical care, Medical Issues, medical neglect, MRSA, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nevada Prisons, NNCC, Parole, Parole and Probation, permanently disabled, prison, Prison Director, sepsis, Skolnik, Stewart Conservation Camp, urinating and defeating blood, Warden, Workers Compensation

MTWT - Chris | July 6, 2009

Five members of the Aryan Warriors prison gang were found guilty today in federal court of conspiracy to engage in a racketeering organization.
James Wallis, known as “Gargoyle,” 48, Robert Young, 31, Kenneth Krum, known as “Yum Yum,” 49, and Charles Gensemer, 45, each were convicted of the racketeering conspiracy charges, which consisted of multiple acts [read more...]

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