IF YOU WANT TO VISIT YURI
Puddleduck and I decided that we should just go visit Yuri. So we called the Lamar County jail, where he's being held. They told us that we'd have to go to the jail and fill out a form which would have to be approved by the sheriff's office and also possibly by Wainwright. Wasn't exactly clear if Wainwright gets to approve of visitor requests or not.
But here's the kicker--according to the woman who answered the phone at the jail, Wainwright's visitation goes all the way from 9:25 until...9:55. On Mondays. So he gets a whopping 30 minutes of visitation once a week.
Oh, and the form that has to be approved takes several days to get approved, according to the woman at the jail. Hmmm...seems kind of like a big pain in the ass. And possibly/probably it's set up that way on purpose.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Yuri Wainwright Info Blog Now Open For Business
What happens when two dudes from a newspaper forum get to talking about discovering the truth? They start a blog! Webhead and Puddleduck from the Hattiesburg American forum decided to get together to see if they could find out more information about the case of Yuri Wainwright, a former student at the University of Southern Mississippi who's been in jail since April 18, 2007 for supposedly threatening someone online.
We're not saying Wainwright didn't in fact do what the authorities say he did--he very well may have broken the law. But we find it kind of interesting, shall we say, or unusual that the authorities won't tell the public what it is that he wrote that was so criminal. They apparently just expect us to take their word for it that he wrote something criminal and that it's perfectly legitimate for Wainwright to have been rotting in jail with a bond of $1 million for over 6 months as of this writing.
We've read Wainwright's writings and studied the laws under which he's been charged and it doesn't seem to us that the authorities have a case. However, we're aware that we might not have seen everything Wainwright has written that is relevant to the case. We know we don't know everything about it.
And that's where you, our readers, come in. Fill us in on the details. Let us know what you know--let the whole country, nay, the whole world know what you know. If Wainwright did do something criminal, then fine. But if he didn't, then we seek his release and that justice be done.
So please, send us an email. Leave us a comment. Let's all work together to get this case some attention--bring it into the light of day so we can settle this once and for all. Should Yuri Wainwright be in jail for writing something? Or should the "justice" system, as the title of this blog implies, "free Yuri?"
What happens when two dudes from a newspaper forum get to talking about discovering the truth? They start a blog! Webhead and Puddleduck from the Hattiesburg American forum decided to get together to see if they could find out more information about the case of Yuri Wainwright, a former student at the University of Southern Mississippi who's been in jail since April 18, 2007 for supposedly threatening someone online.
We're not saying Wainwright didn't in fact do what the authorities say he did--he very well may have broken the law. But we find it kind of interesting, shall we say, or unusual that the authorities won't tell the public what it is that he wrote that was so criminal. They apparently just expect us to take their word for it that he wrote something criminal and that it's perfectly legitimate for Wainwright to have been rotting in jail with a bond of $1 million for over 6 months as of this writing.
We've read Wainwright's writings and studied the laws under which he's been charged and it doesn't seem to us that the authorities have a case. However, we're aware that we might not have seen everything Wainwright has written that is relevant to the case. We know we don't know everything about it.
And that's where you, our readers, come in. Fill us in on the details. Let us know what you know--let the whole country, nay, the whole world know what you know. If Wainwright did do something criminal, then fine. But if he didn't, then we seek his release and that justice be done.
So please, send us an email. Leave us a comment. Let's all work together to get this case some attention--bring it into the light of day so we can settle this once and for all. Should Yuri Wainwright be in jail for writing something? Or should the "justice" system, as the title of this blog implies, "free Yuri?"
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