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glad I don't live in Maricopa County - 9/4/2010 10:16:50 PM

Lordandmaster

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Wonder how many of you knew about this case. It was news to me:

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2010/09/marcia_powells_death_unavenged.php

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The Maricopa County Attorney's Office has chosen not to prosecute Arizona Department of Corrections staff in the death of inmate Marcia Powell.
Powell, 48, died May 20, 2009, after being kept in a human cage in Goodyear's Perryville Prison for at least four hours in the blazing Arizona sun. This, despite a prison policy limiting such outside confinement to a maximum of two hours.
The county medical examiner found the cause of death to be due to complications from heat exposure. Her core body temperature upon examination was 108 degrees Fahrenheit. She suffered burns and blisters all over her body.

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RE: glad I don't like in Maricopa County - 9/4/2010 10:45:41 PM

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A few things are disturbing about this.

For one she was not sentenced to death nor to get skin cancer. Incarceration is not supposed to be cruel and unusal at least from what I have read in a Constitution somewhere.

Judges presume that if you got caught once, you have done it many other times and gotten away with it. So I wonder how many of these cases are covered up.

I also doubt that such incidents are confined to that county, or even the state of Florida.

And the worst of it is - this is what we have become ? They can try all they want to hem and haw their way out of this, but it is,,,,,,,, I want to use the word ridiculous but that isn't right. I just can't find the word for it. That's law and order ? I hope the family sues the pants off the county, state and whoever else allowed this to happen.

What's more if it is limited to two hours, is that per day ? Does that mean they can slow roast the inmates rather than flash frying them ?

My Father believed and I am starting to believe that when these incidents are made public it is to show us peopns who is boss. That we live and die at their whim. I am not religious in any way, but it seems the book of Revelations is coming true. When it first came out the book 1984 was shocking, but now it's probably not worth the read. Did the authors of such works have the insight to see Man's inhumanity to Man evolve into this ? (which always existed of course) We are supposed to be in an enlightened age here, not the medieval age. This is evolution ? Somehow I have trouble percieving it as such.

And this from someone who is for the punishment of criminals, but I mean real criminals.

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RE: glad I don't live in Maricopa County - 9/5/2010 12:26:30 AM

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

Wonder how many of you knew about this case. It was news to me:

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2010/09/marcia_powells_death_unavenged.php

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The Maricopa County Attorney's Office has chosen not to prosecute Arizona Department of Corrections staff in the death of inmate Marcia Powell.
Powell, 48, died May 20, 2009, after being kept in a human cage in Goodyear's Perryville Prison for at least four hours in the blazing Arizona sun. This, despite a prison policy limiting such outside confinement to a maximum of two hours.
The county medical examiner found the cause of death to be due to complications from heat exposure. Her core body temperature upon examination was 108 degrees Fahrenheit. She suffered burns and blisters all over her body.

Maricopa County is the home of the infamous Sheriff Arpaio. The DA is in his pocket and there is no way he would bring charges against a LEO of any sort unless he absolutely had to.

Until the entire county government is fumigated, shuld be soon Arpaio is facing federal and state investigations right now, I'd stay out of Phoenix.

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RE: glad I don't live in Maricopa County - 9/5/2010 7:13:45 AM

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They are making alot of noise over our jail too. A hunger strike. yawn.

I am tho worried about the break out of MRSA, which they say came from some other prison, and cant discuss it due to HIIPA. wow.

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RE: glad I don't live in Maricopa County - 9/5/2010 8:02:54 AM

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

Wonder how many of you knew about this case. It was news to me:

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2010/09/marcia_powells_death_unavenged.php

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The Maricopa County Attorney's Office has chosen not to prosecute Arizona Department of Corrections staff in the death of inmate Marcia Powell.
Powell, 48, died May 20, 2009, after being kept in a human cage in Goodyear's Perryville Prison for at least four hours in the blazing Arizona sun. This, despite a prison policy limiting such outside confinement to a maximum of two hours.
The county medical examiner found the cause of death to be due to complications from heat exposure. Her core body temperature upon examination was 108 degrees Fahrenheit. She suffered burns and blisters all over her body.

She was not a violent offender; she was convicted for prostitution that likely paid for a meth habit (from looking at her mouth in the photos).

The woman was a schizophrenic on medications that changed the way she responded to the sun and heat.
The cages were for "unruly prisoners".
Caging anyone in 107F heat without water, refusing them toileting facilities... all of it is cruel and unusual and inhumane.

I am hoping that since charges aren't being followed by the state the federal government will step up and go ofter them on human/civil rights violations.

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