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Us Marshal called facility to inquire on my husband friday and warden told him that my husband had all his personal belongings and had full access to commissary items including pencils and he was in protective custody. LIES, LIES LIES. As of Easter Sunday my husband still is sitting in an empty cell with a book he took off the book cart and the form he refused to sign that says he is violent and that's it. US Marshal called me and said he would go out next week to check on my husband and sort out the situation. My husband is in a yellow cautionary uniform in administrative segregation and a sign on his door says caution. He can only borrow a pencil when an officer feels like saying yes but then he has to give it right back. Because of where he is the medical personnel came to him. The psych nurse remembered him and said what are you doing in that uniform and why are you in here? He showed her the unsigned form and she said she would ask some questions to see what was going on. I cant believe this warden blatantly lied like that. I have contacted her boss and shared the problem now. US Marshal gave me his cell number and told me to call if there were any more problems or things get worse. He is supposed to go see my husband this week. I sent my husband a bible through Amazon. This will now be the third bible we have bought him since this facility told him he couldn't take the first one to Henderson and then they threw away his second one and now I have bought a third. I know its just stuff but his stuff is worth ten times what its worth to me and our family is in foreclosure and cant afford to have things we buy taken away or thrown away. Twice now he has had commissary and he has been "surprise transfered" and had to throw all the commissary away. Never imagined I would be fighting so freakin hard for a right to have a pencil and legal paperwork. This is becoming a joke. If my husband wasn't sitting under such sensitive charges I would have gone to the news already. Sad that I cant do that. It appears an alleged or accused individual with SO charges is just a guilty SO waiting to be sentenced.
I did some research on the Warden where your husband is there at Pahrump. If I remember correctly the Warden is a black lady named Collins; she has not been there long. The turnover rate with personnel in the federal prison system seems to be quite high.
It does not surprise me that the Warden told the Marshall that your husband had full commissary privileges and all this property. Corrections generally are very poorly operated and maintained. The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing and there is generally a poor quality to the day to day operation of prisons almost to the point of incompetence.
He is basically in PC. I wonder if the reason they will not allow him to have anything in his cell is because they consider him a suicide risk. I know in the state system, the inmate's first 48 hours are without anything in the cell that could be used to hurt themselves. They even take shoelaces.
Of course, it is a Catch 22. His mental state may not improve until he gets put back on the meds he had before he went to prison and they will not allow him to have many meds or his property until his mental state improves, so.....
He needs to be back on his meds for Parkinsonism.
I think the best thing to do, Psalms, is to wait until next week to see what the U S Marshall finds out when he goes down there. I know it is another week, but I would wait to call CCA until the Marshall got back with me.
The sign on the door that says "Caution" is just ridiculous. That is something you would put on the cage of an animal at the zoo, not a prison. My God, he is locked up. What do they think he can do?
You said the psych nurse came to his cell. Are they making any progress to getting him some medical attention, not only for his Parkinsonism but also for his possible mental disability? Did he tell her he needed medical attention? Or did she just walk away?
You said, " I cant believe this warden blatantly lied like that."
I can. The entire prison system is predicated on the fact that nobody wants to take responsibility when something is amiss.
You are on the right track and are contacting the proper people. Nothing happens very quickly in a prison setting.
The fact that the U S Marshall gave you his cell number is an indication that he is earnest with wanting to get to the bottom of this.
I have already thought about going to the media as a last resort. Prisons don't think they have to answer to anyone, but they really hate lawsuits and bad media attention.
I am sending you a PM.
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That is the one thing you cannot do. You two have suffered so much now that I would not give up for any amount of money.
The only way you can come out ahead in these cases is to fight tooth and nail.
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