Posted on 08/20/2004 8:04:49 AM PDT by yankeedame
Shoe Bomber Sues Over Harsh U.S. Prison Conditions
Thu Aug 19, 2004 08:39 PM ET
DENVER (Reuters) - "Shoe bomber" Richard Reid has sued U.S. prison authorities for imposing harsh conditions including isolation and a lack of access to Arabic language religious books. Reid is serving a life sentence for attempting to use explosives in his shoes to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami three months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Reid, a British citizen, wants a judge to order prison authorities to give him "the same rights and privileges as other inmates held in this prison."
Reid has been at the Administrative Maximum Facility in Colorado, popularly known as Supermax, since February 2003.
In May, a federal prison official told Reid U.S. authorities had ordered special administrative measures to restrict Reid's access to mail, media, telephone and visitors.
"These measures have been imposed because there is a substantial risk that your communications or contacts with persons could result in death or serious bodily injury," the official wrote.
In the handwritten suit, filed in U.S. district court in Denver on Wednesday, Reid said he has a window he cannot see out of and is denied access to broadcast and print news.
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The pigs should then be auctioned on Ebay!
Thanks for the well-wishes, friend.
Get a rope
Life sure does suck, doesn't it?
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LOL!! Yeah, and he probably has to use non-quilted toilet paper, and eat breakfast cereal dangerously close to the "Best If Used By" date.
Geez man, get over it. The people he sides with would string him up with no explanations.
OK, take him out of isolation and let him "play" with the other boys. He would certainly serve completely his life prison term, in less than one week.
What the SOB deserves is a lack of oxygen.
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