Da: "Coalit"
A: "amici coalit"
Oggetto: [listacoalit] Polunsky : lockdown
Data: mercoledì 3 aprile 2002 12.13
> > Gang brawl leaves one Texas prisoner dead
> >
> > LIVINGSTON - One inmate was stabbed to death and another severely beaten
> > Thursday in a brawl involving rival prison gangs at the Texas Department
> > of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit, officials said.
> >
> > Corrections officers had to use chemical agents to break up the fight,
> > prison spokesman Larry Fitzgerald said.
> >
> > Jessie Hernandez, 32, serving 30 years for delivery of cocaine and
> > marijuana in Collin County, was pronounced dead at a hospital in
> > Livingston about an an hour after the fight involving five inmates broke
> > out in a runway area outside a prison building, Fitzgerald said.
> >
> > The prison is just west of Livingston and about 80 miles northeast of
> > Houston.
> >
> > Hernandez had been stabbed with a sharpened metal rod believed to have
> > been fashioned from a piece of a cooking sheet, Fitzgerald said.
> >
> > A second inmate, Elroy Ruiz, 48, serving 30 years from Nueces County for
> > burglary, was taken to a hospital in Lufkin where he was receiving
> > treatment for a broken jaw, broken nose, orbital fractures and other
> > contusions.
> >
> > The three other inmates involved the fracas were being questioned by
> > prison authorities.
> >
> > Fitzgerald said a serious review team would be assembled by prison
> > administrators to investigate the case.
> >
> > Fitzgerald said authorities believe the fight involved two rival
Hispanic
> > gangs. At least four of the men were gang members and he said the fifth,
> > Ruiz, was suspected of belonging to a gang. The three men who did not
> > require hospitalization and were undergoing questioning are Hispanic.
> >
> > No officers were hurt breaking up the brawl, he said.
> >
> > The killing is the first this year in the prison system, the nation's
> > second largest with about 145,000 inmates.
> >
> > Hernandez had been imprisoned since Dec. 31, 1997.
> >
> > "Apparently all had their cells shaken down this month as part of our
> > routine procedure but (officers) did not recover any shanks," Fitzgerald
> > said.
> >
> > The Polunsky Unit, with a capacity of 2,900 inmates, was placed on
> > lockdown, meaning prisoners were confined to their cells. Death row,
which
> > is part of the Livingston area prison, was allowing inmate visits as
> > usual, he said. Condemned prisoners normally are confined to their cells
> > 23 hours a day.
> >
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> >
>
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