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Meet Gus Puryear: Bush's Latest Villainous Nominee for a Lifetime Judgeship

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Meet Gus Puryear: Bush's Latest Villainous Nominee for a Lifetime Judgeship By Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet Posted on May 5, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/84388/ Editor's Note: In 2004, Estelle Richardson's lifeless and battered body was found on the floor of a Corrections Corp. of America prison cell. Four years later, that unsolved homicide has come back to haunt Republican stalwart "Gus" Puryear, the nation's top private prison litigator and Bush nominee for U.S. District Court. This is Part I of an AlterNet exclusive, two-part investigative feature by Silja J.A. Talvi. Part 1: Mr. Puryear, meet Ms. Richardson It's hard to say what Estelle Ann Richardson would have thought if she would have had the chance to meet the man who authorized a hefty settlement check for her children...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 18, 2008 (boomark / email).