Morning news on WDBJ 7 for 10/12/95

06:00-01

HEADLINES

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O-J Simpson says NO to N-B-C, but YES to the New York Times.
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And the fighting has stopped in Bosnia as a truce takes effect. wx-head
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OJ

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O-J Simpson backed out of a T-V interview on N-B-C but he's talking to the New York Times.
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Simpson called the Times and spoke to reporters for 45 minutes last night.
He told them his attorneys pressured him into canceling for fear that whatever he said could seriously damage his chance in the civil suits he is still facing.
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Meantime, his attorneys say he DID NOT back out because he was afraid he would be asked some tough questions.
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Baker is asking for the dismissal of a wrongful death suit against his client brought by the Goldman family.
He says Simpson is not liable because he was acquitted.
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Teen-Murder

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Danville police are treating the death of a 14- year old as a homicide.
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Police were called to 4-50 Henry Street at about 11:30 yesterday morning.
Mary West was inside her apartment when she heard a loud knock and saw Kevin Warren standing on her porch with blood coming from his mouth, nose and neck.
Authorities say Warren had been shot.
The teen did not live at the residence.
But West says she knew the young man because his mother used to live next door to her.
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Drug-Shooting

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In Roanoke last night, a woman was shot near eighth and Moorman street.
One witness who did NOT want to be identified says the woman was trying to buy crack cocaine when three shots were fired.
A witness says the woman was shot in the chest, but appeared to be conscious when the rescue squad arrived.
The victim was taken to Roanoke Memorial Hospital and was being evaluated.
Police have not released her name and are still investigating.
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Greensville

ANCHOR=Melanie
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Questions are arising over inmate deaths at Greensville Correctional Facility.
There are reports that as many as 10 inmates have died there since December --most of them dialysis patients.
One woman looking for answers says her brother died after being mistreated while incarcerated there.
Kimberly McBroom has the story.
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((Jane Schaffer has many concerns about the death of her brother, James Arnold David Smith.
Smith was convicted of first -degree murder.
He served 11 years of his life sentence in several Virginia prisons-- before dying in March at Greensville Correctional Facility.
Now, his sister is coming forward with allegations of abuse.
She did not want her face to appear on camera.
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((JANE SCHAFFER: HE TOLD ME TIME AFTER TIME THAT HE DIDN'T GET THE PROPER CARE THAT HE THOUGHT HE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN. AND HE WOULD ASK THEM TO TAKE HIM TO THE HOSPITAL AND THEY WOULDN'T DO IT. ))
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Smith died of lung cancer.
Schaffer says his condition was made worse because of neglect and bad living conditions.
Smith filed grievances with prison wardens and wrote several letters to state officials-- but Schaffer says nothing was done.
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((JANE SCHAFFER: I KNOW THE PEOPLE THAT'S IN PRISON DID THEIR CRIME. THEY HAVE TO PAY, BUT THERE'S NO SENSE IN TREATING A HUMAN BEING LIKE A DOG. AND I FEEL LIKE THAT'S THE WAY, NOT ONLY MY BROTHER--IT'S THE OTHER PRISONERS, TOO. ))
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PRE- PRO HERE
Meanwhile, corrections officials say there's nothing suspicious about the inmate deaths there-- that quote, "Greensville has a major hospital. The inmates coming into the system are sick, therefore it's not unusual for Greensville to have a higher number of deaths." End pre-pro
But Schaffer says inmate abuse and neglect do exist in Virginia's prisons-- and she hopes coming forward will help. Kimberly McBroom, News 7.))

Bosnia

ANCHOR=Melanie
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The U-S brokered cease-fire for Bosnia has finally taken effect.
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SUPER=03-Sarajevo;

The 60-day truce started today.
It was delayed 48 hours while engineers tried to restore utilities to Sarajevo.
The White House is calling on Bosnia's warring parties to stick to it and settle their differences at the bargaining table.
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1-Sports

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The Mariners lose one. Mike Stevens takes a look at the major league playoff championships in sports.
Good morning.
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1-Weather

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One-Larry

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SUPER=15-Larry Dowdy;
SUPER=11-Roanoke Co.;

SUPER=13-Bill Latham/Crime Prevention Officer;

SUPER=13-Sgt. Al Brown/Roanoke City Police;

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2-weather

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Plant-Closing

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The Sara Lee Distribution Center in Salem will CLOSE its doors by the middle of NEXT year... affecting more than 130 employees.
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Sara Lee is combining its hosiery dyeing and distribution in Florence, South Carolina, and employees WILL have an opportunity to transfer.
Workers who choose NOT to move will receive severance benefits based upon their years of service, and the company is also promising job placement counseling.
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CVTC-Letters

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Republicans want Democratic House of Delegates candidate Gil Cobbs to APOLOGIZE for a letter he mailed to hundreds of state employees last week.
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Nine hundred workers at the Central Virginia Training Center received the letter that WARNED them Republican Steve Newman had voted last year to CUT their salaries.
Newman says that's NOT true.
What he actually did was vote against a state budget that included pay RAISES for state employees.
Cobbs' opponent, Preston Bryant, says the Democrat may also have broken the law when he used a state employees' mailing list.
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HE'S USING IT FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES AND I THINK THAT'S NOT ONLY ILLEGAL, BUT AT BEST EXTRAORDINARILY UNFAIR.)) ((GIL COBBS/D- HOUSE OF DELEGATES CANDIDATE: THAT'S PUBLIC INFORMATION AND YOU COULD GET THAT. IT'S PUBLIC INFORMATION SO ANYBODY CAN GET THE LIST OF ANY STATE EMPLOYEES IN THE COMMONWEALTH AND SO I GOT IT.))
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Cobbs says his list was given to him by the state Democratic caucus.
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He adds the letter could have been worded BETTER, but is still technically correct.

Cupp-Remark

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Meantime, a local republican state senate candidate is apologizing for a letter he wrote -- a letter invoking images of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich in a General Assembly race.
A fund-raising letter from Pat Cupp of Blacksburg links gun-control advocates to Nazis.
Cupp apologized last night in a written statement to anyone offended by what he called a ``historical reference.''
Earlier this week, Winchester Republican Russ Potts compared Democrats to Nazis.
He also apologized for the analogy.

Justice-House

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Who's responsible for the Justice House?
That's what residents of the low income home what to know after their electricity was cut off because of a deliquent account.
Scott Prince has more.
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(( The power may be back on at Justice House, but most of the people who live here still feel powerless.
Residents pay $150 dollars a month, and they want to know why the bills aren't being paid.
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Rodney Richards and his girlfriend, Donna Wolcott, are the two people who collect money at Justice House and some of the tenants are not happy with them.
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Richards and Wolcott say they aren't sure what happened to all of the money.
But Wolcott has signed and endorsed Justice House checks, despite the fact that her name wasn't on the bank's signature card.
There are also two different versions of Wolcott's signature on the checks.
Many of the residents are on fixed incomes and have small children.
They say they feel abandoned and they're not quite sure where to turn.
Five years ago the Virginia Mennonite Board of Missions thought they had sold the building to the community and four trustees-- one of which was David Hayden.
But records show Hayden never completed the deal and the city still lists the Mennonite Church as the owner of the building.
In January, Hayden severed all ties with Justice House and he told News- 7 that he had transferred power to Roanoke Area Ministries.
RAM-House officials flatly deny that. They say they were asked to run the facility, but decided against it.
No one is quite sure who is responsible for Justice House right now.
Many of the residents say they don't want to leave. But they might; at least until someone is put in charge.
Scott Prince, News 7.))

2-scores

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In sports, the Indians evened the American League Championship series at a game apiece.
For that score and more, let's go to the scoreboards.
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SUPER=103-NY Rangers/==6/Winnipeg/==4//Philadelphia/==2/Washington/==1;
SUPER=103-Colorado/==3/Boston/==1;

3-WEATHER

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Two-Larry

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SUPER=15-Larry Dowdy;
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(Roll cue:) Here's Anna Wentworth with this week's movie review.
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(( Anna Wentworth/Arts Reviewer: "To Die For" is a clever movie, told in pseudo-documentary style about a shallow young woman with one obsession, to be on TV. (("TO DIE FOR"/COLUMBIA PICTURES: SO WHAT I AM SAYING IS THAT A QUALIFIED PLASTIC SURGEON CAN JUST SNIP AWAY THOSE LITTLE BEAUTY SPOTS FACIAL BLEMISHES--WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL THEM--AND YOU'D SEE HOW MUCH BETTER YOU'D FEEL ABOUT YOURSELF.))
This is a showcase for Nicole Kidman who is Suzanne Stone, the epitome of 'blonde ambition'.
She works her way up by marrying a sweet but conventional Italian restaurateur--Matt Dillon--then railroads a pair of cable T.V. guys into hiring her for their local weather spot.
In her single minded ambitious drive to the top, her sweet hubby becomes a liability , so Suzanne seduces a dim teenager and convinces him to kill the husband.
One of the movie's strengths is the supporting cast, but Kidman's character is just too irritatingly dense. ((I BELIEVE MR. GORBACHEV-YOU KNOW, THE MAN WHO RAN RUSSIA FOR SO LONG-I BELIEVE THAT HE'D STILL BE IN POWER TODAY IF HE'D DONE WHAT SO MANY PEOPLE SUGGESTED AND HAD THAT BIG PURPLE THING TAKEN OFF HIS FOREHEAD.))
Even with its bits of black humor and cynical irony, "To Die For" only gets a "B".
The movie has slow points in the beginning and is entirely twisted to warrant more.))
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2HEADLINES

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Here's a look at today's top stories.
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O-J Simpson cancels a T-V interview with N-B-C and explains why to the New York Times.
He says he's worried he might hurt his chances in civil suits.
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VO-NAT
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Danville police are investigating the murder of a teenager.
A 14-year-old boy died from a gunshot wound yesterday after seeking help from a neighbor.
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And Roanoke police are investigating the shooting of a woman during what may have been a drug deal.
The woman was being treated at Roanoke Memorial, after suffering a gunshot wound to the chest.
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And that's what's making news on this Thursday, October 12th.
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Don't go away. The news will continue. larry-Hello
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Simpson

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N-B-C didn't get the O-J Simpson interview, but the New York Times did.
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Simpson told the paper his attorneys ordered him to cancel because they feared it could damage his chances in the civil suits he is facing.
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((JOHNNIE COCHRAN/SIMPSON'S ATTORNEY;I HAVE THOROUGHLY DISCUSSED WITH MY ATTORNEYS THE CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES CONCERNING THE INTERVIEW, AND BASED UPON THEIR UNANIMOUS RECCMMENDATION, I HAVE CONCLUDED THAT THIS IS NOT THE APPROPRIATE TIME FOR ME TO SPEAK, THEREFORE I AM POSTPONING MY APPEARANCE. ))
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A civil attorney for Simpson is asking for the dismissal of a wrongful death suit against his client brought by the Goldman family.
Robert Baker says Simpson is not liable because he was acquitted.
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danville-murder

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In Danville, a 14- year old is DEAD and police are calling it a homicide.
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Police were called to 4-50 Henry Street at about 11:30- yesterday morning.
Mary West was inside her apartment when she heard a loud knock, and saw Kevin Warren standing on her porch with blood coming from his mouth, nose and neck.
Authorities say Warren had been shot.
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((MARY WEST/NEIGHBOR: I HAD THE DOOR LOCKED SO I SAID WAIT A MINUTE KEVIN AND I WENT BACK AND GOT A TOWEL AND GAVE HIS FRIEND THE TOWEL AND I DIALED 911 AND THEN I GOT OUT THERE WITH HIM AND TRIED TO PUT PRESSURE THE BEST I COULD ON HIS NECK AND TRIED TO MAKE HIM BE STILL WHICH HE WOULDN'T. ))
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The teen did not live at the residence.
But West says she knew the young man because... his mother used to live next door to her.
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And there was shooting in Roanoke last night...

Shooting

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Police say a woman was shot in an apparent case of a drug deal gone sour.
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It happened around eight o' clock near eighth and Moorman street.
One witness who did not want to be identified says the woman was trying to buy crack cocaine when three shots rang out.
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A witness says the woman was shot in the chest but appeared to be conscious when the rescue squad arrived.
The victim was taken to Roanoke Memorial Hospital and was being evaluated.
Police have not released her name and are still investigating.
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Roanoke-abduction

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Police in Boston, Massachusetts have arrested a suspect in the abduction of a Roanoke woman and theft of her car at gun point.
Keith Humphry reports Boston police found John David Ford asleep in the back seat of the '92 Oldsmobile Tuesday night.
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The victim has asked not to be identified.
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Mrs. McDonald agreed to let us use her last name, but did not want her full name or her face on television.
She was leaving the S-and-S Cafeteria at Towers Mall Saturday, was about to get in her car, when she was accosted by a man with a small handgun.
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They drove around Roanoke for hours, she says, finally ending up in Amherst County.
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The man took her into the woods, tied her up and left her in the woods with a bear-skin rug and a blanket, claiming he'd be back in half an hour.
An hour and a half later she'd managed to free herself, walked to a house- -where at first they didn't believe her story- -but someone called police.
Mrs. McDonald says she prayed the entire time- -not just for herself but for her abductor.
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KH. News7))

Medicare

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The Republican controlled House Ways and Means Committee yesterday approved a G-O-P plan to OVERHAUL Medicare but NOT without a fight.
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The elderly protestors were taken into custody after disrupting the committee meeting.
They claim Medicare is being wrecked.
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The Bill is expected to come before the entire house later this month.
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3-Sports

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The Express meets the press and there's an amazing play in the N-H-L.
Mike Stevens takes a look in sports.
Good morning.
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5-WEATHER

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Three-Larry

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(Live Interview)

SUPER=15-Larry Dowdy;
SUPER=11-Roanoke Co.;

SUPER=13-David Rorer/Salem Police Crime Prevention;

SUPER=13-Melvin Lutz/Salem Police Crime Prevention;

SUPER=13-Bill Latham/Crime Prevention Officer;

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Murder

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Danville police are investigating the death of a 14- year old as a homicide.
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Police were called to 450- Henry Street at about 11:30- yesterday morning.
Mary West was inside her apartment when she heard a loud knock and saw Kevin Warren standing on her porch with blood coming from his mouth, nose and neck.
Authorities say Warren had been shot.
The teen did not live at the residence.
But West says she knew the young man because his mother used to live next door to her.
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Moorman-Shooting

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SUPER=03-Roanoke/Last Night;

In Roanoke, a woman was shot last night near eighth and Moorman street.
One witness who did not want to be identified says the woman was trying to buy crack cocaine when three shots rang out.
A witness says the woman was shot in the chest but appeared to be conscious when the rescue squad arrived.
The victim was taken to Roanoke Memorial Hospital and was being evaluated.
Police have not released her name and are still investigating.
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newman

ANCHOR=Melanie
NEWSCAST=morn
WRITER=tha
TAPE# 95-78
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The case continues against a 17- year old Halifax County man accused of pulling the trigger in a fatal drive by shooting.
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Anthony Scott Whitlock was killed February 13th at Westside Trailer Court.
A motive for the murder is unkown but, prosecutor John Greenbacker told the jury he has witnesses who identified Kevin Chase Newman as the man in the car.
Newman's attorney countered by saying the car in question did not belong to his client and had tinted windows.
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Last month, Harry Traynham (TRAY-NUM) was convicted of murder after a jury held him responsible for driving the car.

Prison-abuse

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The sister of a former inmate at Greensville Correctional Center is accusing the prison of abuse in the death of her brother.
Ten inmates have died there since December
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--most of them dialysis patients.
Prison officials say that's not unusual for the hospital facility.
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Jane Schaffer says her brother, David Arnold Smith, was serving a life sentence for first degree murder.
He had served 11 years in several Virginia prisons before dying in March at Greensville Correctional Facility.
She says conditions were poor and her brother did not get proper care.
She did not want her face to appear on camera.
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Smith died of lung cancer.
Schaffer says his condition was made worse because of neglect and bad living conditions.
Smith filed grievances with prison wardens-- but Schaffer says nothing was done.
Meanwhile, corrections officials say there's nothing suspicious about the inmate deaths.
Officials say quote, "Greensville has a major hospital. The inmates coming into the system are sick, therefore it's not unusual for Greensville to have a higher number of deaths."
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In other news regarding prisons, the Virginia Department of Corrections is considering running a criminal background check on visitors as a way of improving security. That could mean checking the backgrounds of as many as 240-thousand people.