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VA: Another death at Wallens Ridge

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prisoners are being double celled who should not be leading to tragic consequences which of course, the DOC can predict and prevent if they wanted to. Va. inmate: 'Only way to stop me' is death row * AP foreign, Sunday June 13 2010 DENA POTTER Associated Press Writer= POUND, Va. (AP) ? For seven days, Robert Gleason Jr. begged correctional officers and counselors at Wallens Ridge State Prison to move his new cellmate. The constant singing, screaming and obnoxious behavior were too much, and Gleason knew he was ready to snap. On the eighth day ? May 8, 2009 ? correctional officers found 63-year-old Harvey Gray Watson Jr. bound, gagged, beaten and strangled. His death went unnoticed for 15 hours because correctional officers had falsified inmate counts at the high-security prison in southwestern Virginia...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 15, 2010 (boomark / email).