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| Suit claims denial of legal materials |
| By The WInchester Star |
| Published: 09/03/2008 |
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VIRGINIA - A former Stephenson businessman convicted of providing poorly trained bomb-sniffing dogs to the U.S. government is accusing the Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center of violating his constitutional rights. Russell Lee Ebersole was sentenced to 63 months in prison in September 2005 after being found guilty of 25 counts of wire fraud and two counts of lying to the federal government. Various agencies, including the State Department, the Federal Reserve, and the IRS, paid Ebersole more than $700,000 for what turned out to be defective bomb-sniffing dogs in the months after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Ebersole owned a business in Stephenson called Detector Dogs Against Drugs and Explosives. Ebersole, held in the Federal Prison Camp in Cumberland, Md., was housed at the Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center between April 30 and June 4. He was transferred from Cumberland to the regional jail for the “purpose of transitioning him back into society following his term of incarceration with the Bureau of Prisons,” court documents state. Ebersole filed a civil rights complaint against the regional jail in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in early August. He accuses the detention center of confiscating and denying him access to his legal materials, failing to provide access to its law library, and acting with indifference to his serious medical needs. Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center Superintendent Bruce Conover, the jail’s assistant superintendent at the time of Ebersole’s incarceration, said Tuesday that none of the parties named in the lawsuit has been served. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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