Protest Rally to Commemorate Inmate Death

Protest Rally to Commemorate Inmate Death

by WABI-TV5 News Desk - November 12th 2010 02:56pm - Read more Local News

Advocates for Maine prison inmates are planning a protest rally to commemorate the death of an inmate.

Officials from the Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition say
52-year-old Victor Valdez of Portland died under conditions they
call disturbing.

Coalition spokeswoman Judy Garvey says the Nov. 17 protest at
the Capitol in Augusta will be a memorial. Valdez was cremated shortly after his Nov. 27, 2009 death in the medical unit of the state prison in Warren. No autopsy was conducted.

State officials say Valdez died of kidney disease.

Garvey says that other inmates have said correctional officers removed Valdez's dialysis tubes and placed him in solitary confinement eight days before his death. (AP)

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Dead inmates is good inmates.

alex 11/12/2010 02:02 pm

We have inherited a prison system that kills people. The dead prisoners were only sentenced for a few years. Let's stop doing what we have done for years, maybe for generations. A few get killed, some are driven crazy, most are finally released and live with us -- maybe much the worse for being in our prison. There has got to be a better way to treat prisoners that what we are doing now. I wish I could be with the folks to protest Victor Valdez' pointless death -- caused by the State of Maine Department of Corrections -- which is really, basically all of us -- taxpayers and voters, citizens of Maine, owners of the prison.

George Swanson 11/12/2010 10:39 pm