Stanford Protests Lack of Air Conditioning in Jail

Stanford Protests Lack of Air Conditioning in Jail - 7/27/2009

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Stanford Protests Lack of Air Conditioning in Jail
Thom Weidlich

Bloomberg. July 27, 2009
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EXCERPT: R. Allen Stanford, the Texas financier accused of directing a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, complained that his cell often lacks light and air conditioning. For the past week, Stanford, who’s in a cell in Conroe, Texas, with from eight to 10 other men, has endured heat and intermittent lack of power when outside temperatures reached 100 degrees or more, his lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, said yesterday in a motion asking that his client be transferred to a downtown Houston jail. “For part of the time last week, they were in total darkness,” DeGuerin wrote. “The cell has been without air conditioning for at least a week. There are no windows for light or ventilation, and the conditions are intolerable.” U.S. District Judge David Hittner in federal court in Houston on July 15 denied Stanford’s original request to be transferred while he awaits trial. The financier is being held without bail at the privately run Joe Corley Detention Center, about 43 miles north of Houston. In his new motion, DeGuerin repeated his argument that Stanford’s defense is hampered because the Corley facility doesn’t allow the use of electronics. The fact-finding in the case is being done “by electronic means,” DeGuerin said. He reiterated the transfer request “both because of the oppressive conditions under which he is suffering, as well as the impossible conditions for preparing for his complex trial.” […] In a letter to the U.S. Marshal Service attached to the motion, DeGuerin wrote that one of the men in the cell with Stanford is in his late seventies and suffering from diabetes and another has a heart condition. “There are serious medical conditions of several of the men in the cell,” he wrote. The detention facility is operated by Boca Raton, Florida- based GEO Group Inc., according to its Web site.

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