Posted on 08/16/2010 2:36:52 PM PDT by roses of sharon
A Harris County jail inmate awaiting trial on a murder charge allegedly beat a young illegal immigrant accused of robbing and fatally shooting a 14-year-old girl in the back as she was walking home on Aug. 6.
Melvin Alvarado, 22, one of two men charged with capital murder in the death of Shatavia Anderson, was beaten Thursday evening, sustaining serious enough injuries to be hospitalized and receive stitches, said Alan Bernstein, of the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
Accused in Alvarado's beating is Robert Williams, 38, Bernstein said.
A volunteer inmate crew at the county's jail on San Jacinto entered Alvarado's cell about 5:30 p.m. Thursday to clean it during the one hour a day he is allowed out of it.
Williams "pushed his way" inside the cell and assaulted Alvarado for "a few moments," Bernstein said.
A detention officer pulled Williams off Alvarado, but not before Williams beat him, leaving him with cuts, swelling, bruising and injuries to a right eye and left ear, Bernstein said. He was unsure which particular injury required sutures or how many were required.
Alvarado, who is in the U.S. illegally and has been twice deported, was taken to LBJ Hospital for treatment. Alvarado was back in a cell Saturday — at a different jail, on Baker - and treated in the medical unit there, he said.
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You can believe what you want, but you will also have to justify sticking him in the wrong prison and thereby violating the other prisoners’ rights.
Sorry, Jeffrey ~ minor mistake. We all know who the guy is. His name is utterly unimportant.
Ping...
“Being locked up with a cannibal isn’t in the law!”
Being locked up with a cannibal is, arguably, cruel and unusual punishment.
However, if this is a Republic wherein the citizen regulates his own behavior, shouldn’t we exile those who will not live within the laws of the Republic?
Exile ‘em or execute ‘em. Caging a man degrades the criminal and the prison staff. Not to mention the cost of the prisons.
In the instant case, had the killer of the girl been executed the second time he was found here (he returned from exile), the girl would still be alive.
Not related to this story but like so many stories that get lost... I was wondering recently what the outcome was of all those women getting killed just across the mexico border?
Did they ever catch the killer(s) and are they still happening?
“You can believe what you want, but you will also have to justify sticking him in the wrong prison and thereby violating the other prisoners’ rights.”
Well, no, the other prisoners should have been protected from him, too.
While I think that punishment for violent crimes in this country should be much heavier than they are, I agree with you. The fact that people can get beaten up, raped, etc in prisons in this country really is a disgrace. No one should even have the opportunity to band together in gangs. The inmates appear to be running the asylums.
On the other hand, the prisoners weren't concerned with the cost ~ just their own hides.
The Federal government’s job is to protect its citizens from external enemies.
ARRESTS, DEPORTATIONS
January 2005: Melvin Alvarado convicted of driving while intoxicated. Sentenced to 18 days.
November 2007: Alvarado convicted of driving while intoxicated. Sentenced to 60 days.
April 2008: Immigration officials remove Alvarado to El Salvador.
May 2009: Immigration officials remove Alvarado to El Salvador.
Source: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
It seems that Alvarado was too comfy in US jails, since he went there twice.
At least now he knows different.
Social justice?
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