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AZ: Acting Director of AZ DOC attends Marcia Powell's Memorial Service---organizing continues

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Charles Ryan Attends Marcia Powell's Memorial Service, Says He Didn't Know Powell Had Guardian By Stephen Lemons in Feathered Bastard Saturday, May. 30 2009 @ 3:05PM About 200 people packed the pews at Encanto Community Church today at noon for a memorial service for Marcia Powell, the 48-year-old inmate at Goodyear's Perryville Prison who died early the morning of May 20. This was following her confinement the day before in an outdoor cage where she endured temperatures of more than 107 degrees for at least four hours before collapsing. The service was presided over by Rev. Liana Rowe, and featured prayers, hymns, and speakers such as criminal defense advocate Jameson Johnson and Middle Ground Prison Reform's Donna Hamm. Powell's body is still being held by the Medical Examiner pending an investigation into next of kin by Powell's court-appointed guardian, the Maricopa County Public Fiduciary...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 01, 2009 (boomark / email).