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• Anonymous

  Ahh, come on now. Everyone knows that it couldn’t have been a fellow inmate. It had to have been a guard.

• PaulNotBunyan

  Is there some reason this story tells us why the accused is in prison but fails to mention why the dead man was there? I’m sure he wasn’t there voluntarily for a vacation or something. Will the grieving widow also sue the newspaper if they add a few minor details to this story? I just want to be sure that he wasn’t put in there without first being convicted of some felony. But wait a minute. I think I remember why he was sent there ….

• PaulNotBunyan

  Is there some reason this story tells us why the accused is in prison but fails to mention why the dead man was there? I’m sure he wasn’t there voluntarily for a vacation or something. Will the grieving widow also sue the newspaper if they add a few minor details to this story? I just want to be sure that he wasn’t put in there without first being convicted of some felony. But wait a minute. I think I remember why he was sent there ….

• PaulNotBunyan

  Is there some reason this story tells us why the accused is in prison but fails to mention why the dead man was there? I’m sure he wasn’t there voluntarily for a vacation or something. Will the grieving widow also sue the newspaper if they add a few minor details to this story? I just want to be sure that he wasn’t put in there without first being convicted of some felony. But wait a minute. I think I remember why he was sent there ….

• Anonymous

  You probably do…. click on the Blunt Force Injuries   link to learn if you remember correctly.

• PaulNotBunyan

  How about that! I did remember correctly.

• PaulNotBunyan

  How about that! I did remember correctly.

• Xerxies

  I  find it very difficult to find any sympathy whatsoever for Weinstein, or his wife… 

• Anonymous

  “At the time of his death, Weinstein — a diabetic — was serving a two-year sentence for a conviction of one count of gross sexual assault against a child”

  http://bangordailynews.com/2009/12/04/politics/state-may-face-1m-wrongful-death-lawsuit/

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Regina-Hosebeast/100002095287763 Regina Hosebeast

  Weinstein may have been a bottom feeder and most of us despise the wrist-slapping sentences handed out by some of our judges, but justice belongs in the courtroom, not in a jail cell. This reeks of “The inmates are running the asylum”. We are in a sad state if we depend on prisoners in Warren to mete out the punishment that our justice system can’t seem to handle.

  I suspect the prison employee that was fired had some knowledge of what was going on during this incident. In addition to being fired, he or she should be held responsible to some degree for the death. Weinstein’s wife will win the lawsuit, but I suspect she will settle with the State for an undisclosed amount, out of court.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Regina-Hosebeast/100002095287763 Regina Hosebeast

  Weinstein may have been a bottom feeder and most of us despise the wrist-slapping sentences handed out by some of our judges, but justice belongs in the courtroom, not in a jail cell. This reeks of “The inmates are running the asylum”. We are in a sad state if we depend on prisoners in Warren to mete out the punishment that our justice system can’t seem to handle.

  I suspect the prison employee that was fired had some knowledge of what was going on during this incident. In addition to being fired, he or she should be held responsible to some degree for the death. Weinstein’s wife will win the lawsuit, but I suspect she will settle with the State for an undisclosed amount, out of court.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Regina-Hosebeast/100002095287763 Regina Hosebeast

  Weinstein may have been a bottom feeder and most of us despise the wrist-slapping sentences handed out by some of our judges, but justice belongs in the courtroom, not in a jail cell. This reeks of “The inmates are running the asylum”. We are in a sad state if we depend on prisoners in Warren to mete out the punishment that our justice system can’t seem to handle.

  I suspect the prison employee that was fired had some knowledge of what was going on during this incident. In addition to being fired, he or she should be held responsible to some degree for the death. Weinstein’s wife will win the lawsuit, but I suspect she will settle with the State for an undisclosed amount, out of court.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Regina-Hosebeast/100002095287763 Regina Hosebeast

  Weinstein may have been a bottom feeder and most of us despise the wrist-slapping sentences handed out by some of our judges, but justice belongs in the courtroom, not in a jail cell. This reeks of “The inmates are running the asylum”. We are in a sad state if we depend on prisoners in Warren to mete out the punishment that our justice system can’t seem to handle.

  I suspect the prison employee that was fired had some knowledge of what was going on during this incident. In addition to being fired, he or she should be held responsible to some degree for the death. Weinstein’s wife will win the lawsuit, but I suspect she will settle with the State for an undisclosed amount, out of court.

• yowsayowsa1

  Except if you are a lawyer!

• yowsayowsa1

  Except if you are a lawyer!

• Anonymous

  If that is the case….he got what was coming~

• Anonymous

  If that is the case….he got what was coming~

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RX23W5V7A2J6BYTBB3MZJE5ZKA Jeff D

  With tongue in cheek, I would like to know what you think is wrong with ‘Bubba- justice’ when nearly all comments are about any man going to jail for any heinous crime will receive his justice when ‘Bubba’ gets hold of him. I think instead of letting them all off on insanity convictions we should send some of those heifers into the women’s prisons to mete out justice before we begin to clean up Warren.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RX23W5V7A2J6BYTBB3MZJE5ZKA Jeff D

  With tongue in cheek, I would like to know what you think is wrong with ‘Bubba- justice’ when nearly all comments are about any man going to jail for any heinous crime will receive his justice when ‘Bubba’ gets hold of him. I think instead of letting them all off on insanity convictions we should send some of those heifers into the women’s prisons to mete out justice before we begin to clean up Warren.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RX23W5V7A2J6BYTBB3MZJE5ZKA Jeff D

  With tongue in cheek, I would like to know what you think is wrong with ‘Bubba- justice’ when nearly all comments are about any man going to jail for any heinous crime will receive his justice when ‘Bubba’ gets hold of him. I think instead of letting them all off on insanity convictions we should send some of those heifers into the women’s prisons to mete out justice before we begin to clean up Warren.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RX23W5V7A2J6BYTBB3MZJE5ZKA Jeff D

  With tongue in cheek, I would like to know what you think is wrong with ‘Bubba- justice’ when nearly all comments are about any man going to jail for any heinous crime will receive his justice when ‘Bubba’ gets hold of him. I think instead of letting them all off on insanity convictions we should send some of those heifers into the women’s prisons to mete out justice before we begin to clean up Warren.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RX23W5V7A2J6BYTBB3MZJE5ZKA Jeff D

  With tongue in cheek, I would like to know what you think is wrong with ‘Bubba- justice’ when nearly all comments are about any man going to jail for any heinous crime will receive his justice when ‘Bubba’ gets hold of him. I think instead of letting them all off on insanity convictions we should send some of those heifers into the women’s prisons to mete out justice before we begin to clean up Warren.

• Karen

  That’s what happens to to convicted sexual offenders in Prison. Hello!!!! 

• Karen

  That’s what happens to to convicted sexual offenders in Prison. Hello!!!! 

• Karen

  That’s what happens to to convicted sexual offenders in Prison. Hello!!!! 

• Karen

  That’s what happens to to convicted sexual offenders in Prison. Hello!!!! 

• Karen

  That’s what happens to to convicted sexual offenders in Prison. Hello!!!! 

• Karen

  That’s what happens to to convicted sexual offenders in Prison. Hello!!!! 

• Anonymous

  Maybe all she did wrong was marrying the wrong man.

• Anonymous

  Maybe all she did wrong was marrying the wrong man.

• Anonymous

   Too bad the system seeks ways to unlock the doors on the very people who need to be locked away.

• Anonymous

   Too bad the system seeks ways to unlock the doors on the very people who need to be locked away.

• Anonymous

  and your point is what…I was replying to someone else………good grief

• Anonymous

  and your point is what…I was replying to someone else………good grief

• Anonymous

  If she does sue and win…kills me that’s a possibility… I hope the his victim sues his estate and wins.

• Anonymous

  If she does sue and win…kills me that’s a possibility… I hope the his victim sues his estate and wins.

• Anonymous

  If she does sue and win…kills me that’s a possibility… I hope the his victim sues his estate and wins.

• Anonymous

  If she does sue and win…kills me that’s a possibility… I hope the his victim sues his estate and wins.