AZ Corrections Workers Disciplined in Inmate Death

[Ptah]

Source: ABC news

Sixteen Arizona corrections employees have been fired,
suspended or otherwise disciplined for their role in the
death of inmate at the Perryville prison in Goodyear.

The moves were announced at a news conference late Tuesday afternoon.

Authorities say 48-year-old Marcia Powell collapsed in
triple-digit heat after spending four hours in an
outdoor holding cell May 20, and died of a heat-related illness.

Powell had first- and second-degree burns on her face and body
and a core body temperature of 108 degrees.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=8645875

[BlooInBloo]

1. Were they left outside to rot in the sun?

[YOY]

3. They put her in a hot box. Ever seen Cool Hands Luke?

Small tin isolation cell where prisoners are put to cook. Pretty fucking inhuman.

[BlooInBloo]

4. :) That's how I'll always remember Newman. (And it's only 1 Hand, I believe.)

[Ginny from the Block]

13. Cool Hand Luke

was a great movie. Could it be inmates are softies now? Did the inmate have it coming? We don't have the whole story. Maybe they needed to get their mind right.

[Titonwan]

14. Yer 2 Funee :)

That was hilarious. Good one :)

[Ptah]

15. .

:thumbsdown:

[Ptah]

8. Yes, it was not unusual for inmates to be in cages for eight to twelve hours.

[BlooInBloo]

10. Which god was your namesake? (Too lazy to look it up.)

[Ptah]

11. Egyptian creator.

[BlooInBloo]

12. Ah - the big cheese.

[Dinger]

2. Disciplined? How About Charged, Convicted & Sentenced?

Sheesh, disciplined?? WTF??

[winyanstaz]

5. That was murder most horrid...they need to go to jail.

[astral]

6. Isn't that murder?!!

TORTURING prisoners by burning them in the sun? In an American correctional institution? Does nothing happen if she didn't have family to file charges? Even in a criminal case like this?

This makes me wonder how much SH!T is going on in our own prisons that we don't ever hear about.

Who changed the law that every American prisonor is in Guantanemo?

And when (ahem! "who?") did it happen?

[Piewhacket]

16. manslaughter

[Dogmudgeon]

7. Arpaio proteges?

--d!

[Ptah]

9. Unfortunately, Arpaio is not the only bad actor in Arizona.

[ProudDad]

17. This is right up there with Cool Hand Luke

Luke was sentenced to eventual death for clipping the heads off of some parking meters.

This woman was sentenced to eventual death for prostitution...another bogus "crime"...

Fuck this Calvinist bullshit country...

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On edit:

From the story: "Three of those disciplined were fired, two stepped down in place of being fired, 10 received suspensions ranging from 40 to 80 hours, and one was demoted. Two others will be disciplined after they return from medical leave."

I hope they had the shit kicked out of them by inmates -- then there would be some justice in this story...

Fuck the Police -- and the D.A.s -- the whole fucking system is corrupt to the core...

[Heidi]

18. Recommended.

:kick:

[Ptah]

19. Thanks.

Most people are unaware of what happens in US prisons.