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Journal of Runaway1956 (2926)
Sheriff: Prison Reform Advocate Planted Guns for Jail Break
Tennessee authorities say a longtime prison reform advocate was preparing to stage a jail break when he hid loaded guns and ammunition in a new jail that was under construction.
By Associated Press, Wire Service Content Feb. 19, 2020, at 4:43 p.m.NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A longtime prison reform advocate was preparing to stage a jail break when he hid loaded guns and ammunition in a new jail that was under construction, Tennessee authorities said Wednesday.
Alex Friedmann, a former prisoner turned crusader against private prisons and a longtime editor at Prison Legal News, was charged last month with attempted burglary. He was accused of gaining access to the new jail by dressing as a construction worker and stealing keys.
As the investigation continued, “it was discovered that Mr. Friedmann, over many months, had developed and implemented an extremely deliberate and, in my opinion, evil plan,” Nashville Sheriff Daron Hall said during a Wednesday news conference announcing Friedmann’s re-arrest on upgraded charges.
Friedmann is now charged with vandalism of $250,000 or more, with his bond set at $2.5 million.
Friedmann's attorney, Ben Raybin, issued a statement late Wednesday.
“I am currently unable to comment on any of the factual allegations,” Raybin said. “Mr. Friedmann is presumed innocent and will respond through the appropriate legal processes.”
Hall said he believes Friedmann was designing a massive jail break that would endanger “every inmate, every visitor and our entire community.”
“Virtually everything I’m telling you is on video” Hall said, noting that investigators have poured through hundreds of hours of video to identify the areas of the building that were compromised.
Hall currently serves as president of the National Sheriff’s Association and said no one there has ever seen anything like this before.
“It will forever change how correctional facilities are built,” he said.
Prison Legal News is a project of the nonprofit Human Rights Defense Center. Friedmann resigned as editor after his earlier arrest in January, executive director Paul Wright said in a telephone interview.
[ED: What this AP story doesn’t mention is that this celebrated “prison reform advocate” had spent ten years in a Tennessee prison for attempted murder, armed robbery, and attempted aggravated robbery.]
Don't you just love those liberal activists? Is it necessary to state the obvious? Non-violent, non-dangerous offenders locked up for weeks or months for being bad don't even WANT weapons. It would only be dangerous, violent offenders who are looking for weapons.
And, I almost missed the romanticized side of things. Attempted murder, armed robbery, and attempted aggravated robbery - much the same thing that Patty Hearst was involved in. Awwww, to bad he's not an heir to some rich old bastard, huh?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @01:58AM (4 children)
Doncha love dem good ol white boys curb stomping a pun who peered over atcher gurl?
Doncha just love dem clinic bombing heros, the Y'all Qaeda if I dun recall.
Doncha love dem racist coppers who lay the law on some immigrant piece of trash?
Doncha doncha? I betcha doo Mr. Hillblly Buckeroo.
My gosh darndest favoritest is Mistar President Trump hisself! That boy can et a hamberder and oppress some darkies I tell you hwot!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @02:09AM (3 children)
Archie Bunker again? Aristarchus loves to insert crazy misspellings into his rants.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @03:25AM
Archie Bunker? You know that low down feller? You gun tell me where dat boy is so I can put the whoop ass on em, damn city slicker thinks he can take vantige of mai thai lady boy? Sheeeit son, he best cum packin' he wanna get dat ass! That goes double fer you Mr. Innernet Man!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by hendrikboom on Thursday February 20 2020, @06:47PM (1 child)
Aristarchus? Crazy spellings? Not that I noticed.
But he does like to post in classical Greek.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2020, @08:26AM
All dese haters, gun mock me fer talkin different. I think dey just mad dat a feller from the south dun wanna support a whore luvin piece of dung like Trump. Dat man lies more'n mah pastor on a Monday!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday February 20 2020, @03:04AM (8 children)
One person being both a) for prison reform and b) essentially a domestic terrorist doesn't make prison reform wrong. I see the shit you're trying to pull here and it's the same thing you tried to do in your last journal.
Why not take people on a case by case basis? You scream bloody murder every time someone dares lump you in with domestic terrorists, despite parroting their mannerisms, slogans, and ideologies.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @03:12AM (4 children)
Simply put, Runaway1956 is trying to twist this incident as an excuse to turn liberals and conservatives against each other. I will criticize Trump when he deserves it. In order to be taken seriously, I have to acknowledge when he does something right. Trump deserves credit for his efforts to advance criminal justice reform. That also shows this issue doesn't divide cleanly along party lines. While the individual who plotted this act of terror was an advocate for criminal justice reform, it is not even certain that he's a liberal. And an evil act by a single individual cannot be extrapolated to an entire population, just as you said. This is another attempt by Runaway1956 to try to further polarize people, and he's being intellectually dishonest. I was considerably harsher than you in my response to this journal, but he deserves it.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 20 2020, @04:22PM (3 children)
Maybe you haven't been keeping up with news out of Virginia. Libbies counted coup, of sorts, over more conservative people. They won a majority at the capital, and promised to take away people's guns. The people came to the capital, and told the libbies, "Oh no you're not!"
There is every reason to suspect that the culprit in this case was planning some kind of false-flag thing, to move along the libbie objective of confiscating all the guns. Just because the sheriff and the media assume a prison break, is no reason to stop looking for explanations at a prison break.
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 20 2020, @06:51PM (2 children)
The people who won the elections voted against the bill. Representative democracy in action.
Shouldn't you be applauding the Democrats that voted against the bill?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @09:07PM
But that would ruin his narrative! Gotta keep that 2 minutes of hate every day!
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 21 2020, @12:52AM
Applause for everyone who voted against the bill. But, the party will keep trying.
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 20 2020, @03:53PM
How wonderful that you catch all of that nuance, and can even make an attempt to explain the subtleties of the issue.
But, you might look back, and find all the places where I have condemned the entire prison-for-profit system. In fact, I have equated it to slavery. "We cain't work dem darkies in de fields no more, so we can just throw their black asses in prison, and gubbermint will pay us to keep 'em locked up!"
Prison reform is a good thing. Librul activists are never a good thing.
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 20 2020, @06:49PM
1: ALLEGEDLY!!! funny how innocent until proven guilty only counts for certain people....
2: He's currently charged with VANDALISM. That sounds to me like they're not even going to try to prove the terror plot which makes me think the evidence may be thin.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday February 21 2020, @02:13AM
More likely he was stashing the weapons so he could sell their whereabouts to contacts of people inside. After all, follow the money. There's no money in a massive jailbreak, but a gun in a prison would be almost priceless. Even the less violent inmates would like one for their own personal protection.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @03:07AM (8 children)
Seriously, fuck you Runaway1956. This was an evil terror plot by a truly deranged individual. One individual is not representative of an entire population, any population. Criminal justice reform is not even definitively a liberal or conservative issue. This should be obvious because Trump deserves credit for advancing criminal justice reform. You're trying to turn people against each other by twisting the issue to turn liberals and conservatives against each other and further polarize our politics. The fact that a deranged individual was planning an act of terror to advance the issue of prison reform does not reflect on liberals or on everyone who supports criminal justice reform. Virtually anyone, liberal or conservative, will condemn this terror plot and the individual behind it. It is vile that you're trying to use this to further divide people and turn them against each other. You are a truly disgusting individual. Fuck you. You are a truly sick individual, a fact you have repeatedly demonstrated.
To anyone else reading this, this is NOT a liberal vs. conservative issue. This is a terror plot by one deranged individual that thankfully has been discovered and thwarted. Everyone should oppose Runaway1956's efforts to use this incident to incite arguments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @08:23AM
Yes, nearly all Soylentils agree, Fuck Runaway! And the whores he rode in on, Fauz Neus! The first Amendment grants us the right to plant weapons in prisons, it is an inalien-non-immigrant right!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 20 2020, @04:23PM (3 children)
I'm not even arguing with you. But, no, I won't fuck you, and you can't fuck me. No thank you.
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @05:19PM
Runaway is saving hisself for the ol Big President D.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2020, @02:59AM (1 child)
Calm down, Runaway1956! No one is after your booty! I am sure all the calls for sexual concourse with you are merely figurative, in the literal sense of "Fuck you, Runaway!" It think what everyone is saying, is stop with the NRA talking point submissions. You are becoming a exact negative copy of aristarchus, poore, solitary, obsessed, and not dead yet.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 22 2020, @01:58AM
The difference is, Aristarchus actually has some serious mental firepower; he just chooses not to use it, much to my dismay. Look for the posts he's written on ethics for a few examples. I wish to hell he hadn't gone all-in on trolling, because he could be an impressive fighter if he stuck to the straight and narrow.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday February 21 2020, @02:18AM (2 children)
Stash a couple dozen guns in a couple dozen different hiding places, there will be buyers inside with connections outside to make payment.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2020, @04:32AM (1 child)
The defining aspect of terrorism is the presence of a political motivation for the violence. Because the alleged criminal is an advocate for prison reform, it seems likely that there was a political motivation for these actions. The mass shooting as an Orlando nightclub is considered a terrorist act because the shooter stated the attack was because of the US military's strikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria. The choice of weapons does not distinguish terrorism from other violence. The political motivation is the distinction. If the guns were hidden for the purpose of a prison break that would make a political statement about prison reform, then it can be considered a terror plot.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday February 21 2020, @02:17PM
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @03:29AM (2 children)
And how Runaway1956 is simultaneously trapped by and helping to foster such polarization.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?465440-3/washington-journal-michael-barone-discusses-evolution-americas-political-parties [c-span.org]
https://www.c-span.org/video/?468527-1/why-polarized [c-span.org]
https://www.c-span.org/video/?460121-1/super-mad-time [c-span.org]
https://www.c-span.org/video/?419027-1/rise-conservative-media-political-influence [c-span.org]
(Score: -1, Redundant) by aristarchus on Thursday February 20 2020, @04:24AM (1 child)
And the Polars amoungst the Eds are all riled up as well. Aristarchus posted some unkind words about takyon's obsessions with life-extension and medical armaggedon, and suddenly most of the aristarchus subs in the queue disassperated. So I subbed some more subs, and within mere hours, they have been cruelly, vindictively, fired-like a Vindman, rejected by some Polarist. Which way does SN swing? We know Runaway is a uneducated, former truck-driving redneck snowflake hillbilly, and this is just his usual journal about animal husbandry and guns, but what about the larger SoylentNews? I fear the alt-right will be driven to madness, when they realize that they have been had. Check out this: https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=39251 [soylentnews.org]
Or this: https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=39111 [soylentnews.org]
Oh, and that earlier accusation of aristarchal AC posting? Totally unfounded and incorrect.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday February 20 2020, @06:52PM
I know. It wasn't your style. If you deliberately misspell words you do it in classical Greek, a language I can't recognize spelling errors in because I don't know it.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Thursday February 20 2020, @03:34AM
I don't think editing Prison Legal News is enough to qualify someone as a liberal activist. Did the guy do something else to earn that moniker? Sounds more like a wannabe revolutionary otherwise.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @03:43AM (2 children)
Why not watch them instead of pouring through them?
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 20 2020, @03:56PM
I couldn't find the "+1 smartass" so I gave you an informative mod. ;^)
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @04:55PM
Because journalists are ignorant.
It's not "pouring" but "poring", as in looking so closely that one could see the pores in a parchment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @07:14AM (6 children)
Sorry for this off topic post, but Runaway you're the first person I thought of to ask this question (at any place anyone can still post as an anon).
On a lark I looked up what the upcoming US census questionnaire is going to look like. For question 9, they not only ask for race, but also for origin. For example, for the white option, it says "Print, for example, German, Irish, English, Italian, Lebanese, Egyptian, etc."
Not having any particular European or other origin, I'm tempted to put down under the white origin, "Confederate". My question is, would this probably get my name put on yet another list of ne'er-do-wells?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @07:50AM (1 child)
So, Jew trying to pass? Welcome to SoylentNews, Stephan Miller! And Congrats on the nupitials. Hope you were using "protection", if you know what I mean. If not, ask Runaway. He's good with guns as an alternative to justice or actual relations with women.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2020, @02:34AM
No, no; what I meant by no particular European origin is that there are several European countries I could reasonably choose from, yet there is but one entry permitted on the form.
A few years ago a distant cousin of mine did some rather amazing genealogical research, and shared the results with everyone in the family who contributed info. The "main" branch of our family appears to have been started in the U.S. by a rather young boy who arrived in Virginia in the early 1700s, and from the limited info available he appears to have been one of those children kidnapped off the streets of eastern England and shipped over to the colonies as slaves (oh all right, "white indentured servants" whose service only ended when they escaped). Over the years many other types entered my ancestral line, including Scottish, Irish, French, German for certain, and some Scandinavian as probable. My ancestors did not appear to be overly discerning in their choice of mates; although they seem to have not included any Jewish genes into my makeup (to address your hopefully satirical point).
I could reasonably pick any one of those places as an "origin". However, the main trunk of my family tree did slowly work its way westward through Virginia over the years, moving with civilization (or perhaps moving one step ahead of the law, knowing my kin). Only in the last century did they dip a bit into Kentucky. As I have several ancestors resting in Confederate POW camp graveyards, the most recent country that my family comes from other than the USA is in fact the Confederacy.
I doubt the census is interested in this level of accuracy however, and I think I will simply put on the form "unknown", because I'm honestly at a loss as to how to characterize myself besides simply "American".
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 20 2020, @03:31PM
You could put down "NYFB". If they ask you about it, you can tell them "None Your Fucking Business".
That might seem a bizarre response, to some - but the whole problem with race in the US today, is gubbermint worries too much about race. Morgan Freeman had very good advice when he said we need to just stop talking about race.
I might note that my wife is much more of a conformist than I am. After she saw the census thing I filled out, years ago, she has always ensured that SHE gets the census form, and fills it out, before I get my hands on it. ;^)
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday February 21 2020, @02:59AM (2 children)
I'm gonna write "New York City" because a) it's true and b) if you threw darts at a map of Europe I very likely have an ancestor from anywhere they land, possibly including some bodies of freshwater. This is beyond weird to ask...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2020, @06:52AM (1 child)
Not really. Those of us descended from more recent immigrants are often quite capable of identifying our origins. Long term residents of the melting pot? Not so much.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 22 2020, @01:56AM
My ancestors came here in the 1870s or 1880s, IIRC. My mother's side is mostly Irish and Italian, with a few odd bits of Norwegian and French in there, and my father's side is mostly Ukranian, Polish, German, and Russian. And somehow, somehow, we're the van Eck family despite having maybe one Dutch ancestor somewhere in the pile? Who knows.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Booga1 on Thursday February 20 2020, @01:36PM (3 children)
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think they have achieved their goal of prison reform...of a sort.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday February 21 2020, @01:40AM (2 children)
Decent prison reform is not letting people out early and/or dropping charges, it's doing prison Sweden-style where every cell is a studio apartment with books and an X-box, a place to chill and not be compelled to join a gang and be forcibly fucked in the ass in exchange for your own safety.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2020, @08:32AM (1 child)
Well, you got a proper upmods for your content, the fact that you're being sarcastic matters not :D
I'll take fake EF compassion over real EF hatred any day!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2020, @03:52PM
You will take EF's wit however he wishes to give it to you. And if he gives it to you up the ass, you'll like it - OR ELSE!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @05:37PM (2 children)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/u-s-judge-sides-with-migrants-in-case-against-border-patrol [pbs.org]
Huh, lookit that, they aren't even criminal detainees. Fuck you TMB and your "if they didn't wanna go to jail they shouldn't break the law." Excuses for inhumane behavior do not age well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @05:46PM (1 child)
Machine guns would be inhumane.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2020, @09:10PM
I wonder how many mid-life crises are in the making with idiots shifting their morals so far right that ONLY mass murder is considered evil. Of course it'll be a short hop to "of course we have to genocide, otherwise they'll win the election and genocide US!"
Because you're stupid. Stupid fearful hate filled suckers.