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AZ: "Marcia Powell's Death Unavenged: County Attorney Passes on Prosecuting Prison Staff" with comments from Donna Hamm and Peggy Plews

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Marcia Powell's Death Unavenged: County Attorney Passes on Prosecuting Prison Staff By Stephen Lemons, Wed., Sep. 1 2010 @ 8:09AM Feathered Bastard Sadly, Marcia Powell may never get justice 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...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).