Where is the pill control at Marquette Branch Prison? Many inmates have supposedly take large amount of pills by hoarding – or buying and selling drugs
By Greg Peterson
Upper Peninsula Breaking News
Owner, News Director
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(Marquette, MI) – Not much is known yet about an injury at the Marquette Branch Prison this afternoon that caused paramedics to respond but it is being described as self-inflicted suicide attempt.
One of the toughest prisons in the state, Marquette Branch has a long history of violence in which both corrections officer and inmates have been seriously injured.
About 2:05 p.m., U.P. Health Systems-Marquette paramedics were dispatched to the Marquette Branch Prison for report of “a laceration.” Paramedics reported to the hospital that the laceration was bandaged and the bleeding controlled. The inmate’s vital signs sounded positive.
An inmate has been taken by ambulance to the Marquette hospital after allegedly cutting himself with glass and taking 40 Claritin.
In fact, one version of last year’s MBP story on what happened to a young inmate that died was that he took an overdose.
Apparently prison officials in the U.P. are unable to come up with ways to prevent this pill hoarding and pill dealing at other prisons around the country. The storing or buying of meds inside a prison is serious.
The attempt suicide story rings true in the sense that in the past couple years numerous inmates have attempted suicide including an inmate hanging attempt in the eastern U.P. As prison conditions become worse and more dangerous, so do the suicides and attempts.
If we get more information – we will pass it along.
Earlier this afternoon, U.P. Breaking News heard a Michigan State Police detective who was gong inside a U.P. prison to investigate an alleged criminal “complaint.” It is not clear if the detective was at Baraga Max or at Marquette Branch.
Officials at Marquette Branch Prison never fessed-up publicly about what happened to a 30-year-old inmate who died mysteriously in a segregation cell.
U.P. Breaking News heard it go down – and it did not even closely match what prison officials and state police were telling the family.
U.P. Breaking News believes by CO claims that ‘all inmates are lying’ is an old misleading misnomer conveniently spread by prison officials to shame the media to not report such stories – just remember that all this goes on in the secrecy of the segregation bowels of prisons.
Do inmates lie in lawsuits – of course (duh?) – but its the lawsuits that ring true that has them so angry at our expose. However, inmates never,ever win in federal court in Marquette, MI.
U.P. Breaking News is told mostly that is because because of no legal representation but also interference by prison officials who have complete control of when, what and how info is given to a prisoner about the status of a case.
U.P. Breaking News believes that not every inmate could be lying – especially when their civil rights lawsuits read like journals.
U.P. Breaking News has started and series entitled “Naming Names” by being the first and only media organization in the Upper Peninsula to report on alleged brutality, sickening food, retaliation, mistreatment of elderly inmates and other dehumanizing claims against Upper Peninsula corrections officers.
In fact it goes deeper at one U.P. TV station, where the news director has dismissed inmates and their lawsuit out of hand – because his father is a retired corrections officer.
Inmates from all U.P. Prisons have filed civil rights and inhumanity related lawsuits.
Prison officials notoriously lied about the last year’s riot at Kinross Correctional Facility until U.P. Breaking News started releasing audio of what was happening. They even tricked the Mining Journal in Marquette, MI – that put out a silly false story on the front page of their Sunday edition. To be fair it was an A.P. story – they got lied to as well. But the Mining Journal should have acted like a newspaper located in the U.P. and check out info when they hear a riot is taking place.
Mays was in the prison for a Nov. 2001 bank robbery convict out of Wayne County.
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