THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, December 23, 1995 TAG: 9512220024
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A10 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 31 lines
Willie Lloyd Turner described the Powhatan Correctional Facility as ``a hell on Earth.'' Only one shower for 26 people and it doubles as a toilet. This wasn't in the brochure! Someone should inform these people that they're not staying at Club Fed.
It's a sad state of affairs when the unfortunate inmates in Building M catch a horrible disease from bird feces (``Dying in prison,'' News, Dec. 11). Perhaps the guards have caught a disease as yet undiagnosed from the human feces.
The inmates affected by this virus find themselves in an unusual position. They are now the victims. This is probably a first-time experience for them.
Enter the lawyers, champions of the whiners and the occasionally honestly injured. Is there not enough cheese in your macaroni? Does the warden not recognize the inherent goodness that you possess?
If the inmates win their suit, it would bode well for society if all of the victims of inmate Robert Alston's and his colleagues' actions were reimbursed for their pain and suffering, loss of property, income, so on and so forth.
STEPHEN LARSEN
Portsmouth, Dec. 13, 1995 by CNB