Arkansas Blog

>>Dalrymple told me an interview last week that contraband is a routine occurrence in the prison -- from drugs and alcohol to cell phones.<<

What in the world! Everyone knows that tatoo stuff is much more dangerous than drugs inside a prison.

With the ADC's recent publicity they better watch who they pick on.

Betsey is in good hands with Jeff Rosenzweig. It was a pleasure watching that brilliant young fellow grow up.
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WTF?

"Betsey Wright . . . has been a vehement supporter of prisoners' rights and often an irritant to prison administration."

Well, there you have it: An irritant to the administration. Add to THAT the heat the administration has been getting for prison breaks, the near death of an inmate and other misdoings, and you've got the perfect storm developing for the likes of Betsey Wright. Given all the circumstances, I'd have thought she was way too smart to allow herself to get sucked into something like this.

What a crock! Betsy was my boss for several years eons ago and you can be assured she is not dumb....she is one of the smartest people I've ever met.

Sounds kinda like it's payback time from the prison honchos. After all the crap that goes on down there and mostly of late this sounds like it's a little diversion to get the public attention on something high profile and away from their screw-ups.

This is typical of the ADC... anyone who questions them will find themselves 'set-up' eventually. Betsey, you hang in there.No doubt, this is bogus from the get go!
Good question about contraband and charges... Of course the ADC has nothing to loose, they use our AG to defend them and they always can come up with something.
Most telling is Tyler, has yet to comment!

Oh Lawd!! Sounds like the ghost of Knox Nelson put the gris-gris on Betsey

>>Of course the ADC has nothing to loose, they use our AG to defend them and they always can come up with something.<<

And Dustin CamelHump McDaniel got to use the ADC airplane, for free until the media made a stink of it.

For the sake of us newcomers, would someone be willing to explain the reference to Knox Nelson?

"...they have decided to take a willfully negative interpretation of some ambigious circumstances."

Is that lawyerspeak for something?

". . . she is not dumb . . . she is one of the smartest people I've ever met."

Precisely, Charles Eddie. And that's why I'm having a helluva time figuring how she could have allowed herself to fall into a trap like this. It's a set-up, not too unlike the Susan McDougal shitstorm.

Wasn't there something about another person arrested with a prohibited item or items said to be in a bag of chips she got at the prison? Or was this Betsey?
As far as the other stuff, I carry a pair of tweezers in my purse, as well as a nail file, not that I can find either when I really need them. No box cutter, but I do carry a small knife to get the seal off hubby's oxygen bottles. We won't even go into the variety of drugs I sometimes carry for him.
I have also hand carried a friend's Swiss Army knives home from Texas after she flew down and met us out in the wilds. She'd mistakenly carried them aboard a plane but wasn't caught with them.
Of course there's a difference between inadvertently carrying something prohibited and having tattoo needles, if that's really what they were.
In any case, I don't know Betsey personally, but I kinda have to agree with Charles Eddie. I figure she's a whole lot smarter than to knowingly and intentionally try to smuggle that stuff into prison.
I know I say this about a lot of things, but somethin's fishy.

You have to understand that the difference between the inmates and the administrators and guards is a very small one. Good luck, Betsey.

Imagine what they do to the prisoners.. even the good ones.

eLwood, I know you dont like the attorney general (gee - how did I figure that out?) -- but his office's consumer protection division has saved me a bunch of money in an internet ripoff this summer.

Is there not security video of her vending machine purchase? If her story is indeed that she got the chips out of the vending machine, seems like that could be easily confirmed or debunked with the video.

We're surrounded by video cameras on streetlights out here where all the innocent people live, surely they're in the prison visitor areas.

She must have been aware of the x-ray machine from previous visits, so it's hard to imagine that she would not realize that an x-ray machine can see into a bag of potato chips.

According to the documents, she more or less confessed to stealing the bag of chips, so maybe they can reduce the charges to one count of petty larceny.

>>but his [AG]office's consumer protection division has saved me a bunch of money in an internet ripoff this summer.<<

Yes tina. That's part of what he is paid to do. I doubt he can do much for Arkies while riding camels in Egypt and taking his SECOND honeymoon.

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We need a Win Rockefeller and a Lynn Davis to get this *!!*#! straightened out!!!

This is just smoke & fog to cover the fact that bad things go on in Arkansas prisons. When I read the headline I thought they had traced the well planned prison escape back to Betsey. Now that would be some real news! Instead she's guilty of helping produce more prison tattoos. Though I think they're horrible, I hardly think it's a felony.

We got Bush & Cheney & Rove and a hundred thousand dead innocent people, but they've arrested Betsey Wright? What the FK is wrong with American priorities these days? What's wrong with government? I'm going to found the I Give Up movement and start digging my cave down by the river. Osama won....that's all there is to it......and ain't it a bitch that no one has managed to arrest Osama? These charges are bullshit....

The guard who had sex with the Varner inmate should have been charged under the prison rape elimination act. Arkansas also has a law about "people in power" and sex with inmates. Why isn't anyone asking the ADC about that?

hoggernick writes: "Is there not security video of her vending machine purchase? If her story is indeed that she got the chips out of the vending machine, seems like that could be easily confirmed or debunked with the video. "

Yes, but they were using the North Little Rock model, camera only, doesn't record.

I grew up with Betsey Wright in Alpine, Texas; her Brother Ben was in my class; she was a couple of years older; her father, Dr Wright delivered me. Ben and I still correspond from time to time 45 years after our graduation. All the kids from our small town shared many values of decency and goodness. Just tell her Margaret said hello.

One thing I can say with certainity is that Betsey is intelligent and would not engage in stupid activity such as smuggling items into a prison........... unless she has completely lost her mind....... which I also doubt. My support for her is unwavering.