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| Prisoner Rights Advocates Call for Probe |
| By mpbn.net - Tom Porter |
| Published: 06/09/2011 |
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Lloyd Franklin Millett was taken to a Bangor Hospital on May 24th after being badly beaten at the prison in Warren. According to reports, one inmate carried out the beating, but no one has yet been charged. Associate Commissioner at the Corrections Department, Jody Breton, says the State Police and the State Medical Examiner were notified following the death. "It's my understanding that the medical examiner is going to do an autopsy," she says. "At the time of the death, Lloyd Franklin Millett, aged 51, had served approximately 14 years of his 70-year sentence for murder. He also had a second sentence, a life sentence, to be followed after his 70-years. Millett confessed to killling 33-year old Terrie Lizotte of Canton, Maine, in 1995, while he working as a farmhand in Turner. The other victim was 39-year Rachelle Anne Williams. "No matter how many life sentences anyone is serving, to die that way is absolutely unfortunate," says Republican state Sen. Garrett Mason, who chairs the Joint Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety. He says it's not yet been determined whether Millett's death was directly caused by the beating. "When the commissioner comes back to us after any kind of investigation into this, if there was foul play that could have been averted, the committee will absolutely make sure that doesn't happen again," he says. "It's a tragedy. It's a situation that obviously should have been prevented," says Lance Tapley, an investigative journalist who's written a lot about prison issues for the Portland Phoenix and other publications. While Tapley says he has utmost sympathy for the families of Millett's victims, but says all members of society deserve the same level of protection. "Prisons are places where lots of bad things happen. It's incumbent upon all of us as the public to make sure that doesn't occur, and obviously this needs to be looked into with some energy." Read More. |
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