Posted on 10/29/2005 10:27:17 PM PDT by Coleus
Cop-killer transsexual Leslie Ann Nelson was honored as an Inmate of the Month during a recent ceremony in which she received a certificate, a hug and a special lunch, infuriating a statewide police organization that represents nearly 30,000 officers.
"The idea that our state would award a vicious and cold-blooded murderer like Leslie Ann Nelson is both outrageous and disgusting," said state Policemen's Benevolent Association President Michael J. Madonna, who yesterday called for the New Jersey Department of Corrections to end the Inmate of the Month award and for the warden at Nelson's prison to step down.
The award also drew the ire of the widow of a state trooper whose death led to sweeping changes in the way police conduct traffic stops.
"As they pat him -- or her-- on the back, they slap the families of who he killed," said Donna Lamonaco of Belvidere, Warren County, whose husband, Phil, was gunned down by fugitives as he made a vehicle stop on Route 80 in Knowlton Township 24 years ago. "It makes me sick, and I am not sitting idle."
Nelson, 48, a transsexual go-go dancer whose name was Glenn Nelson before a sex-change operation at age 34, was convicted of killing Camden County law enforcement officers John McLaughlin and John Norcross during a 1995 standoff in Haddon Heights.
She was removed from death row, but has an upcoming death-penalty trial in which she wants to represent herself. Juries have twice decided she should die, and twice those sentences were overturned by the state Supreme Court.
Nelson is an inmate at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, Hunterdon County, where she works as a paralegal in the law library and teaches other inmates how to read.
Department of Corrections spokesman Matt Schuman said 120 of the inmate
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If she murdered a cop she should have been executed.
But, various programs to help keep inmates under control are quite useful. A Christian prison program is currently under attack because it includes privileges but apparently it helps reduce prison violence.
Good grief, do the New Jersey state troopers really think inmate of the month is such a high award they should complain about this?
Isn't everyone up for this award a pretty bad person? Doesn't someone have to get the award. Might the prison system in NJ want such an award to encourage the prisoners to behave.
Now I guess one could object to allowing a man to get a sex change operation and move to a woman's prison pretty outrageous? On the other hand if you wanted to cut that part of me off, I might consider it cruel and unusual punishment and seek intervention by the federal courts.
What do states think death row is? A defunct hip-hop record label?
("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")
"Good grief, do the New Jersey state troopers really think inmate of the month is such a high award they should complain about this? "
Hey now, He/She got a hug, and a certificate, and lunch!! that sounds like a pretty big deal!! :o)
MM
What bugs me more than anything is that the media refer to this sexually mutilated thug as a woman. They'll play any charade, except one that has the smallest semblance of normalcy.
What bugs me more than anything is that the media refer to this sexually mutilated thug as a woman.
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If you shoved a fish up his/her butt they would call him/her a mermaid.
Your asinine generalizations match your intellect... you're no better than the liberals who claim Bush=Hitler
"Either states should execute convicted death row prisoners within a 1-year period, or they shouldn't have capital punishment to begin with.
What do states think death row is? A defunct hip-hop record label?"
And this case is particularly frustrating. S/he has been tried twice, convicted twice and sentenced to death twice and each time a new trial was ordered on a technicality.
("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")
Sounds like someone's feeling guilty.
"Just like Rose Bird. What's the point of having a death penalty? Both RINO Forrester and Democrat Corzine want to abolish it. I dare say this cop killer will NEVER be executed."
And the in the third trial s/he is is going to represent himself... you can just imagine the drama fest that's going to be.
So, if a guy puts a wig on he gets to go to the woman's prison?
Cool!
Please clarify.... Surely you made that statement in error.
MM
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