MTWT - Chris | November 12, 2009
Inmates in the Nevada state prison system aren’t the only ones who have had brushes with the law.
There have been seven felony arrests of prison staff in recent months. One of the officers was charged with armed robbery and attempted assault on a law enforcement officer. That alleged offense occurred in Nye County.
Howard Skolnik, [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 10, 2009
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEVADA
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
v.
RONALD SELLERS, et al., Defendants.
Case No. 2:07-cr-00145-KJD-PAL
NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF
CORRECTIONS’ MOTION TO QUASH
The Nevada Department of Corrections, by and through their attorneys, Catherine
Cortez Masto, Attorney General of the State of Nevada, and Jill C. Davis, Senior Deputy
Attorney General move this Court for an Order [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 9, 2009
Editor’s Note: NDOC has been denying cheaper treatment for hepatitis c for years to Sellers and other inmates. Now, because of their medical neglect, NDOC will pay for Sellers’ expensive liver transplant. The irony here seems to be that to get treatment in NDOC without a long, expensive civil case, one only needs to join [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | June 9, 2009
The firing of a correctional officer for bringing “non-intoxicant contraband” into the High Desert State Prison in Southern Nevada has been upheld.
The “non-intoxicant contraband” in this case was a pillow, pillow case and a deflated air mattress. Acting on a tip, prison officials found the items hidden in a ceiling panel in one of the [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | May 30, 2009
Read the entire 26 page criminal indictment HERE
The Defendants:
RONALD” JOEY” SELLERS, A/K/A, ”FUZZY”;
DANIEL JOSEPH EGAN, A/K/A, “DANO”;
JAMES MILTON WALLIS, A/K/A, “GARGOYLE”;
RONNIE LEE JONES, A/K/A, “RJ”;
TONY HOWARD MORGAN;
KENNETH RUSSELL KRUM, A/K/A, “YUM YUM”, “BIG PIMPING”, and “BARNYARD”;
CHARLES EDWARD GENSEMER, A/K/A, “CHARLEY,”
KORY ALLEN CROSSMAN, A/K/A, ”LOBES”
MICHAEL WAYNE YOST, A/K/A,”BIG MIKE”;
CHARLES LEE AXTELL, A/K/A, “COW BOY”;
SCOTT MICHAEL [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | May 29, 2009
Authorities have said all along that one of the most disturbing aspects of the Aryan Warriors case is the way the violent prison gang corrupted Nevada corrections officers.
Former members and associates of the gang who are cooperating with federal prosecutors name some of those corrections officers and spell out their alleged corruption in FBI reports [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | May 29, 2009
One member’s decision to reject plea bargain kills deal for all six defendants
Tue, May 19, 2009
The Aryan Warriors racketeering trial came close to being called off Monday, as federal prosecutors and lawyers for the six defendants tried work out plea bargains at the last minute.
The talks fell through by late morning, forcing both sides to begin [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | May 29, 2009
Witness identities secret as prison gang members face racketeering charges
Sun, May 17, 2009
Leading members and associates of the Aryan Warriors, a violent white supremacist prison gang, are set to stand trial on federal racketeering charges Monday under heavy security.
Federal authorities consider the Aryan Warriors, who have been committing acts of violence within Nevada’s prison system [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | May 29, 2009
Thu, Dec 18, 2008
Federal prosecutors may be considering the death penalty for jailed Aryan Warriors leader Ronald “Joey” Sellers.
But his attorneys say the 40-year-old white supremacist’s failing liver will beat authorities to the punch if he doesn’t get a transplant soon.
In federal court papers, Indiana death penalty specialist Richard Kammen and First Assistant Federal Public [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | May 29, 2009
Wed, Nov 26, 2008
A member of the Aryan Warriors was sentenced today to more than 11 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to manufacturing methamphetamine on behalf of the gang.
Kory Allen Crossman, who goes by the nickname “Lobes,” was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kent J. Dawson to 140 months in prison and five [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | May 29, 2009
Tue, Oct 28, 2008
A federal magistrate has concluded that conditions at the North Las Vegas jail are “admittedly harsh.”
But Magistrate Peggy Leen said in a series of written opinions last week that she has no authority to order the relief sought by some of the jailed defendants in the Aryan Warriors federal racketeering case.
Leen suggested [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | May 29, 2009
During long meeting with violent client, lawyers find out how tough a lockup can be
Tue, Oct 7, 2008
Jails holding members of the white supremacist prison gang the Aryan Warriors are having a hard time balancing security concerns and constitutional rights.
As reported in the Sun last month, the North Las Vegas jail has had trouble walking [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | May 29, 2009
That’s the reputation that isolating dangerous federal inmates for their own protection has earned North Las Vegas jail
Fri, Sep 19, 2008
Tony Morgan has been in and out of Nevada’s toughest prisons since 1988, but he says none of them treated him worse than his current house of incarceration, the North Las Vegas jail — where [read more...]
Matt | April 9, 2009
It can’t happen here! Or can it?
MTWT has a general policy of publishing only news from Nevada prisons, but this appeal ruling was just too much to pass up, since it can and most likely eventually will happen in Nevada. Consider the case of Anthony Beltran, murdered while handcuffed in his cell at ESP, after [read more...]
Matt | April 6, 2009
Coyote Sheff is a self-styled anarchist. This according to him means that “what I do as an anarchist defines what anarchism means to me.” He became aware of anarchism while in prison. Coyote is an intellectual and a writer. Coyote has published three Zines up to now with the help of South Chicago ABC, and [read more...]
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