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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...]

Category: Corruption, General Information, Nevada Prison News | No Comments »
Tags: Administration of Justice, Advisory Commission, Attorney General Catherine Masto, Clark County, Corruption, Division of Parole and Probation, Howard Skolnik, Las Vegas, Misconduct, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nye County, prison, Prison Director, Skolnik, Southern Nevada Correctional Center, Staff arrested

MTWT - Chris | August 22, 2009

Prisoner files lawsuit against Cortez Masto and three Deputy Attorney Generals for Failure to Correct False Testimony
Roger Libby has been in prison in Nevada for 19 years, almost all of which were spent on death row after his conviction for the killing of two men in Humboldt County in 1990.
Libby’s conviction was exclusively based on [read more...]

Category: Behind the Walls, General Information | No Comments »
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MTWT - Chris | August 22, 2009

For the record, in my opinion, you are cowards.  To make my point, I will address a couple items that should have you poor feeble-minded parasites howling with anger at our state correctional administrators, including the governor and the prison commissioners.

In High Desert State Prison, I have an affidavit in my possession stating the bad [read more...]

Category: General Information, Points of View | 4 Comments »
Tags: conditions of confinement, Corruption, cruel and unusual punishment, Donald Hinton, Hank Greenspun, High Desert State Prison, Howard Skolnik, human rights, illegal and destructive cell searches, Las Vegas, Lovelock Prison, Michael O'Callanhan, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nevada Prisons, prison, Skolnik, Warden Jack Palmer

MTWT - Chris | August 12, 2009

by Raymond Watison

Prisoners at Nevada State Prison are pleading for help. We truly believe that the administration is intentionally inflaming conflict. Not only are tensions between inmates rising, but those between correctional officers and inmates are at an all-time high.
Most importantly, we are starting to become angry because of an ugly rumor that is circulating [read more...]

Category: Behind the Walls, General Information | 1 Comment »
Tags: abuse of authority, Carson City, conditions of confinement, correctional officers, cruel and unusual punishment, Howard Skolnik, human rights, inmates’ rights, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nevada Prisons, Nevada State Prison, NSP, prison, Prison Director, prison guards, Raymond Watison, Riots, Skolnik

MTWT - Chris | August 4, 2009

On Sunday, July 27, 2009 I received calls from inmates at NNCC telling me about an inmate that I personally knew had been taken to the Carson Tahoe Hospital for excessive bleeding. I was told that this inmate was bleeding out of all of his orifices. On Thursday I received word from RMF [read more...]

Category: Behind the Walls, General Information | 1 Comment »
Tags: Carson Tahoe hospital, conditions of confinement, cruel and unusual punishment, hemochromotosis, Hep C, Hepatitis C, human rights, medical care, Medical Issues, MRSA, Nevada, Nevada Department of Corrections, Nevada Prisons, NNCC, prison, RMF

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

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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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...]

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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