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| Would-be bomber files lawsuit |
| By Rocky Mountain News |
| Published: 08/23/2004 |
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Would-be "shoe bomber" Richard Reid has sued the federal prison system in Colorado U.S. District Court for denying him access to amenities provided to other inmates. Reid's handwritten lawsuit, filed in Colorado U.S. District Court on Friday, said he has been "discriminated against and unduly subjected to conditions only imposed on other inmates as punishment for misconduct within the prison system." He said he has been denied access to religious materials, books, classes and correspondence courses, some television and radio stations, prison jobs, telephone calls with his aunts and uncles, daily showers, and some magazines and newspapers - including Time magazine, to which he subscribes. Reid also said he has been kept in isolation in a cell with a window that provides inadequate natural light and doesn't let him see outside, and that he isn't allowed to associate with other inmates. He said law enforcement authorities delay his mail in order to inspect it. Reid is housed in the nation's highest-security federal prison in Florence. The U.S. Department of Justice has imposed "special administrative measures" on him, as it has on some other terrorism-related prisoners. The special measures restrict an inmate's communications and contacts with other people when "there is a substantial risk that a prisoner's communications or contacts with persons could result in death or serious bodily injury to persons, or substantial damage to property that would entail the risk of death or serious bodily injury to persons," according to DOJ policy. The measures may include placing the inmate in special housing and limiting such privileges as correspondence, visiting, interviews with representatives of the news media and use of the telephone. A federal judge in Boston sentenced Reid to life in prison after the British citizen admitted trying to blow up an American Airlines plane bound from Paris to Miami on Dec. 22, 2001, with explosives in his shoes. Passengers and crew members stopped him and the plane was diverted to Boston. |
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