And now:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (S.I.S.I.S.) writes:
INDIAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST FREED
Associated Press, December 17, 1998
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ORIENT, Ohio (AP) -- The state today freed an Indian rights activist
imprisoned for breaking his parole by fleeing to New Mexico, where the
state Supreme Court had once proclaimed him a "refugee from injustice."
Timothy "Little Rock" Reed will be allowed to complete his remaining parole
as a free man, said Andrea Dean, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of
Rehabilitation and Correction.
"All right! Yee-haw!" Reed said as he left a prison reception center near
Columbus this afternoon. He said he wanted to rest and to continue studying
criminal justice and Indian issues.
His mother, Nancy Scull, and grandmother greeted him with hugs and kisses.
"It's a happy day," his mother said.
A hearing officer, noting Reed, 38, hadn't been in legal trouble in recent
years and was active in helping the Indian community, concluded that Reed
would not be a threat to society if released, officials said earlier today.
Reed, who is half Lakota Sioux, had served 10 years of a seven-to-25-year
prison sentence in Ohio for drug theft and aggravated robbery when he was
released on parole in 1992.
Shortly before his parole would have ended, he fled to New Mexico in March
1993, saying Ohio officials threatened to put him back behind bars for
speaking publicly about prison abuses. He said he feared for his life if
returned to the Ohio penitentiary.
Reed had faced the possibility of serving up to 15 more years in prison for
violating parole. He was arrested in New Mexico in 1996, but state courts
there at first refused to allow his return to Ohio.
"The facts demonstrate conclusively that Ohio's conduct toward Reed was not
just. Reed is thus not a fugitive from justice. Rather, he is a refugee
from injustice," New Mexico's highest court ruled in 1997.
The U.S. Supreme Court decided in June that the New Mexico court exceeded
its authority. Reed then went into hiding, but was arrested in Albuquerque
Nov. 20 and returned to Ohio on Dec. 2.
Dean said Reed will live with his mother in Cincinnati while he completes
his parole. The living arrangeme
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