Posts Tagged ‘jail’
Institutionally accepted violence against youths
2:13 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · children · Comments Off
17 Dec 2008
The following is the testimonio of several men about the horrors they experienced while living in a ‘correctional’ youth home in the 1950s and 60s. Some of the abuse detailed is so horrible, it’s hard to stomach. If you can handle it, please read it, please read their testimonies, and then consider–Is there a better way to treat our children? A better way to treat our children that (god forbid) misbehave?
One day in the late 1950s, Richard Colon was working in the school’s laundry room. After a long bathroom break, Colon, then a student inmate in his early teens, said he returned and found the room empty and quiet, except for one tumble dryer that was running.
A young boy had been shoved into it, he said.
“I looked around and I thought ‘I could help him, but if I do, what will they do to me?’” he said, assuming the boy had been forced into the dryer as punishment. “So I left him. And he died.”
“I think about him every day,” said Colon, now 65 and living in Baltimore. “I think to myself, I could have opened that door and I didn’t. That torments me.”
Colon says he does not know what happened to the boy’s body or who forced him into the dryer. But he and a group of men who were students at the school during the 1950s and 1960s believe his remains may be buried among 32 unmarked graves recently discovered near the school, where they suspect boys who were killed at the school were dumped.
Prisoners: You ain’t takin’ away my novelas
4:09 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|States|TV · Comments Off
13 Jul 2006
Spanish-speaking prisoners in Utah are up in arms because they’ve been robbed of something vital to their peace of mind: Univision telenovelas.
An outburst among inmates over a decision to pull the plug on steamy Spanish-language soaps and talk shows resulted in a lockdown at Logan’s Cache County Jail.After getting numerous complaints about the raunchy shows and inmates hogging the television, jail commanders decided Tuesday to pull the Spanish-language TV channel Univision from the cable line-up pumped into the jail’s 15 common area TVs.
“It was dividing the inmates,” said Cache County Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Locke. “Some wanted to watch it, some didn’t want to watch it and it just got worse and worse and it all came back to that channel.”
“Lost” Latina jailed
6:30 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Justice|TV · Comments Off
26 Apr 2006
Hit TV show Lost‘s Latina actress Michelle Rodriguez (known to Lost fans as Ana Lucia) got locked up today in Hawaii as a result of an unfortunate borrachera back in November of last year:
Maybe Michelle Rodriguez figured jails in Hawaii are nicer than those on the mainland, or maybe there’s another reason the “Lost” actress took five days in a sunny slammer of Hawaii over community service when a judge found her guilty of drunken driving, according to a recent Reuters report.Sentenced Wednesday, she went directly to the Oahu Community Correctional Center, where she is expected to serve her sentence. Rodriguez and “Lost” co-star Cynthia Watros — who play castaways from the other side of the island, where a “Lord of the Flies”-like experience left them in worse straits than the rest of the survivors — were arrested in December “on suspicion of driving under the influence.” The bad girls were arrested separately, but within minutes of each other.
The best part? It ain’t the first time…juicy!
Rodriguez has been on the other side of the law, receiving three years probation in 2004 for three traffic offenses in L.A., including hit-and-run and drunken driving.
I always wondered how they got by without alcohol on that island (and without killing Matthew Fox), but apparently they don’t.
Via / Seattle Post Intelligencer
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