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. > > > > ----- > > > > VISITA IL NOSTRO SITO WEB : www.coalit.org L'utilizzo, da parte tua, di Yahoo! Gruppi è soggetto alle http://it.docs.yahoo.com/info/utos.html