MTWT - Chris | December 19, 2009
Bill Would Reform Law That Denies Access to Courts for Victims of Prison Rape and Other Abuses
WASHINGTON – December 16 – Congressman Robert Scott (D-VA) introduced landmark legislation today that is aimed at reforming how prisoners can bring lawsuits defending their rights. Congressman Scott’s bill would reform the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) which was [read more...]
Matt | December 11, 2009
The litany of lawsuits filed by the Concerned Citizens for a Safe Community and Chairman Donna Cox could come with a hefty price tag.
Corrections Corporation of America and Nye County have both filed claims against CCSC for court costs totaling over $7,500 in the wake of the unsuccessful federal suit brought against them in an [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | November 25, 2009
White Pine county authorities say an inmate on death row for a Las Vegas murder has hanged himself in his Ely prison cell.
The sheriff’s office says Timothy L. Redmen was found dead from an apparent suicide on Nov. 18. They say the cell door was wedged shut and had to be removed so prison officials [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | November 25, 2009
An Ely State Prison inmate killed himself Thursday in a barricaded cell.
According to White Pine County Sheriff Dan Watts, the deputy coroner was sent to the Smith Valley prison after Timothy Lee Redman hung himself.
Redman, 45, had barricaded his cell, jamming the sliding door and refusing to remove the obstacle.
Watts said prison maintenance staff was [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | November 25, 2009
A man on death row for a 1990 murder in Clark County committed suicide last week at Ely State Prison.
Timothy L. Redmen, 45, hung himself in his cell Nov. 18, White Pine County Sheriff Dan Watts said.
Redmen jammed the cell door with a weapon called a shank. The door had to be removed to [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | November 25, 2009
An inmate on death row for a Las Vegas murder at the state prison in Ely has hanged himself in his cell, the White Pine County Sheriff’s Office says.
Timothy L. Redmen, 45 was convicted of the 1990 fatal shooting of Max Biederman, whose face was mutilated with a wrought iron railing and his hands [read more...]
MTWT - Chris | November 12, 2009
Make the Walls Transparent would like to apologize to all our readers for our failure to keep up to date with the news. Due to an emergency situation, we were unable to post articles, but we are back with a renewed sense of purpose and enthusiasm, and we will be posting information critical of the [read more...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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