RIGHTS ACTIVIST FACING CHARGE OF TRESPASSING AT STATE PRISON.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Mistry is a surname, and may refer to:
This page or section lists people with the surname Mistry. Daily News Staff Writer A prisoner-rights activist faces trespassing charges after her arrest while distributing a newsletter outside the state prison in Lancaster Lancaster, city, England Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River. , where her husband is imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- for murder. Martha Martha, in the New Testament, friend of Jesus, sister of Mary and Lazarus of Bethany. In Christian literature, Martha has been a symbol of the active, as opposed to the contemplative, life. Feast: July 29. Martha personification of the busy housekeeper. Riley, vice president of Family Net, an organization of inmates' families, was arrested shortly after 7:30 a.m. May 11 as she handed out fliers on the 60th Street West curb in front of the prison. Prison officials say that Riley was on prison property and was obstructing traffic, littering and trespassing. Riley says she was on a public right of way exercising her First Amendment rights and that prison officials were retaliating against her for derogatory de·rog·a·to·ry adj. 1. Disparaging; belittling: a derogatory comment. 2. Tending to detract or diminish. remarks made by her and other Family Net members in a magazine article about the prison's treatment of visitors and inmates. ``This is where people walk and sit and stand daily. This is where the bus stop is,'' Riley said of her arrest. ``I was sitting on the curb. I told them if they didn't like what I was doing to call the Sheriff's Department. I never dreamed they'd go that far.'' After her arrest, Riley spent about six hours in the Lancaster sheriff's station jail before she was released on her written promise to appear June 11 in court. Prison officials said that Riley was in front of the main gate, on the curbing of the driveway where it meets 60th Street West and refused officers' requests to leave. ``They told her to go across the street,'' said Diane Gonzales, spokeswoman for California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). State Prison-Los Angeles County. ``She refused to leave.'' The fliers Riley was passing out were the one-page Family Net newsletter, which contained a list of pending legislation affecting prison inmates or sentences, plus notices on a Sacramento rally by prison activists, a proposal to restrict family visits at a Norco prison and its next meeting topic. Riley said she has been suspended sus·pend v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends v.tr. 1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school. three times from family visits at the Lancaster prison. Her husband has been in prison 15 years on a 36-years-to-life sentence for murder. |
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