Ronnie White's death was a homicide, the Maryland Medical Examiner ruled Monday. He died Sunday in the Prince George's County Correctional Center from asphyxiation and strangulation, the examiner said...This guy doesn't sound like the boy next door, but what can be done to one prisoner can be done to others--and the more it's gotten away with, the more ingrained in the guard culture and likely it becomes. Never doubt for one minute there are brutal and sadistic "Only Ones" more than willing to arrange a convenient outcome for incarcerated gun owners and political activists.
There have been several problems recently at the county jail, including a former police corporal convicted of murdering a man who was found with a handcuffs key. The county's director of corrections was fired in early June when four handguns went missing from the jail armory.
I can't help but think about Irv Rubin and Earl Krugel. Simply put, I have never believed the official accounts of their in-custody deaths.
It is enough to make a man wonder why he should surrender when so ordered.
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