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| Inmate's mom disputes claims against her son |
| By timesdispatch.com - MICHAEL OWENS |
| Published: 07/23/2012 |
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BRISTOL, Virginia - The mother of a Red Onion State Prison inmate is disputing a lawsuit's claims that her son was a gang member on a murder mission. She said her son, John Keyvann Watson, 32, has been locked in solitary confinement without charges ever since cellmate Kawaski Bass, 32, died in a fight last September. "My son was acting in self-defense of his manhood," said the mother, Deborah Delaware, arguing that Bass was a sexual predator who died during a rape attempt. Despite anger over her son's long stretch in solitary, Delaware's main argument is against the Bass family's claims that Watson was a hit man for a prison gang. "My son has never been and is not a member of the Bloods," Delaware said by telephone. The $3.5 million suit, filed last month in Hampton Circuit Court by Richmond-based attorney Horace F. Hunter, accuses prison officials of ignoring Bass' warnings of the gang's plot and instead placing him in a cell "with a known associate of the Bloods, John Watson." Delaware said it was her son, and not Bass, who asked to be moved. "He said, 'This man is perverted. I don't want to be in the same cell with him,' " she said. Inmates at Red Onion can request a cell change by submitting a form explaining why they want to switch, Department of Corrections spokesman Larry Traylor explained in a previous story. Traylor then denied a request for comment on the lawsuit. Both men shared the same cell for roughly three weeks, Watson wrote in a letter his mother gave to the Bristol Herald Courier. Read More. |
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