Nevada Prison Watch: Authorities investigate inmate death at Ely prison

2012/08/21

Authorities investigate inmate death at Ely prison

From: SF Chronicle: Aug 17th 2012

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Authorities-investigate-inmate-death-at-Ely-prison-3796508.php

ELY, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada inmate is dead following an undisclosed incident at Ely State Prison.

The Department of Corrections has identified the inmate as 49-year-old Clayton Wrencher. The incident happened early Friday.

Wrencher was convicted in 2010 of murder in Clark County and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Officials say the death is being investigated by the White Pine County sheriff's office and the state Inspector General's Office.

Department of Corrections spokesman Brian Connett says further details are being withheld pending the outcome of the investigations.

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Sometimes I think this whole world,
Is one big prison yard.
Some of us are prisoners,
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- Bob Dylan, from the song "George Jackson"

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...it is my opinion that the medical care provided at Ely State Prison amounts to the grossest possible medical malpractice, and the most shocking and callous disregard for human life and human suffering, that I have ever encountered in my thirty-five years of practice.

Dr. William Noel

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In a complaint to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Memory alleged that two diabetic prisoners were denied insulin because MacArthur "wanted to hasten the demise of these two inmates in order to save money or cause them more pain and suffering."

LA Times, Dec. 2007

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"All but two of 12 inmates executed in the state in the last 30 years have been volunteers. No other state in the country has had close to that percentage of volunteers, records show."
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Peter Kropotkin
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Frederick Douglas

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George Orwell

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In this moment, it may seem more difficult than ever to envision a state that supports humanity rather than eviscerates the possibility of freedom and health for so many of its people. Yet it is precisely now, when prisons crowd the physical and psychic landscape, that imagining abolition is most critical.

Kim Gilmore

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