Deaths in Custody Names Project
Resistance Alley, Phoenix.
May 30, 2011.
Our condolences to you all.
Please feel free to contact me at prisonabolitionist@gmail.com or 480-580-6807 if there's any way I can help. And please, please sue these people if there is cause - as in the homicide. The most fortified police institution in the state - charged with nothing less than protecting us from criminals - should be able to keep our prisoners safe from the real predators inside its walls - and help the vulnerable ones cope better with their own terror and despair.
- Peggy Plews
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Four Arizona Prison Inmates Die in Four Days; One Suspected to Be Homicide
By James King, Wed.
From Phoenix New Times
Jun. 1 2011 at 2:55 PM
Emergency medical responders at Arizona prisons have had a busy week -- four inmates have died while in Arizona Department of Corrections custody in four days.
One of the deaths, DOC spokesman Barrett Marson tells New Times, is a suspected homicide.
Marson says the other three deaths are currently under investigation, but foul play is unlikely.
The first criminal to kick the bucket this week is 36-year-old Gilberto Lopez. Serving five years for escape, Lopez was found unresponsive in his cell at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Lewis Saturday night.
Inmate number two: 28-year-old Luis Moscoso-Hernandez. Doing a 27-year bid for second-degree murder and kidnapping, Moscoso-Hernandez was also found unresponsive in his cell at the ASPC-Eyman facility.
The third inmate to bite the dust in the past week is 31-year-old Christopher Rankhorn, who was serving a 6.5-year sentence for theft of means of transportation. Like the others, Rankhorn was found unresponsive in his cell, his at the ASPC-Tucson facility yesterday.
Also found dead yesterday was 25-year-old Jeremy Pompeneo. His death, DOC officials say, was an apparent homicide. Pompeno, a lifer who earned his time with a first-degree murder conviction, was found in his housing unit yesterday at the ASPC-Eyman.
All of the deaths, Marson reiterates, are under investigation.
By James King, Wed.
From Phoenix New Times
Jun. 1 2011 at 2:55 PM
Emergency medical responders at Arizona prisons have had a busy week -- four inmates have died while in Arizona Department of Corrections custody in four days.
One of the deaths, DOC spokesman Barrett Marson tells New Times, is a suspected homicide.
Marson says the other three deaths are currently under investigation, but foul play is unlikely.
The first criminal to kick the bucket this week is 36-year-old Gilberto Lopez. Serving five years for escape, Lopez was found unresponsive in his cell at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Lewis Saturday night.
Inmate number two: 28-year-old Luis Moscoso-Hernandez. Doing a 27-year bid for second-degree murder and kidnapping, Moscoso-Hernandez was also found unresponsive in his cell at the ASPC-Eyman facility.
The third inmate to bite the dust in the past week is 31-year-old Christopher Rankhorn, who was serving a 6.5-year sentence for theft of means of transportation. Like the others, Rankhorn was found unresponsive in his cell, his at the ASPC-Tucson facility yesterday.
Also found dead yesterday was 25-year-old Jeremy Pompeneo. His death, DOC officials say, was an apparent homicide. Pompeno, a lifer who earned his time with a first-degree murder conviction, was found in his housing unit yesterday at the ASPC-Eyman.
All of the deaths, Marson reiterates, are under investigation.
