MTWT - Chris | December 12, 2009
By Greg Matics
The Jackson Star-News
Thu Dec 10, 2009, 12:13 PM EST
Ely, NV – Prison reform groups are calling for a federal investigation in the aftermath of a former Ripley man’s suicide in his death row cell at a Nevada prison.
Timothy L. Redmen (AKA Timothy Lee Redman), 45, hanged himself with his shoelaces in his cell [read more...]
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MTWT - Chris | December 9, 2009
MTWT apologizes for the condition of this witness statement regarding the death of Timothy Redman at Ely State Prison on November 18, 2009. Somehow, the account was mailed to the wrong place and the person who got it took it upon herself to chop up (“edit”) this statement. Unfortunately, this “editor” [read more...]
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MTWT - Chris | December 8, 2009
Prison officials are investigating the death of an inmate at Northern Nevada Correctional Center over the Thanksgiving weekend.
Director of Corrections Howard Skolnik said inmate Jamie Kline’s death while he was in the prison Regional Medical Center is under investigation.
Skolnik said Kline habitually refused to take his psychotropic medicines which meant the medical staff had to [read more...]
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MTWT - Chris | November 29, 2009
Newspapers within Nevada picked up the story about Timothy Redman’s death and, as we at MTWT and others, knew their “journalism” would be in the defense of the NDOC and would not be the truth in its entirety. The NDOC gives the public what they want us to hear, what they want us to [read more...]
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MTWT - Chris | November 23, 2009
MTWT has received mail from inmates at ESP and their family members regarding the 11-18-09 death of Timothy Redman on unit 3-B.
One inmate tells us, “Investigator General Thompson was on the unit to “investigate” but he never once asked any inmate what they had seen in the hours and minutes leading to Mr. Redman’s death,” [read more...]
Category: Timothy Redman |
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MTWT - Chris | November 22, 2009
Tortured to death at Ely State Prison
November 19, 2009
(Photos sent to MTWT by loved ones of Timothy Redman. Photos are property of MTWT, please contact before taking off the site. This is at the request of the loved ones of Timothy Redman.)
“They pumped can after can of pepper spray into the cell; they came [read more...]
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MTWT - Chris | November 19, 2009
PLEASE SEE UPDATED STORY CLICK HERE
Tortured to death at Ely State Prison
“They pumped can after can of pepper spray into the cell; they came back every 20 minutes and emptied another can …a big can, maybe half the size of a hairspray can. Then an officer looked in the cell, turned to the lieutenant [read more...]
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MTWT - Chris | November 16, 2009
By: Coyote Sheff
These few humble words go out to the “Local Boy 76” and to all who care to know what I have to say and to all who would like to join in these open chats. Please, try to stay as open-minded as you can, because I know that most people in society have [read more...]
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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...]
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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...]
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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...]
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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...]
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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...]
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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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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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