I read a few articles on his killing but it never mentioned who killed him,
it just said another inmate did it. It says Earl was going to blow up a mosque.
He shouldn't have been put in prison he should have been given a medal.
it just said another inmate did it. It says Earl was going to blow up a mosque.
He shouldn't have been put in prison he should have been given a medal.
Michael:
David Frank Jennings, a known skinhead was the murderer.
Krugel was martyred on November 4, 2005, as he started
his 20-year sentence in a medium-security federal prison
in Phoenix but was promptly bludgeoned to death.
The apparent assailant, 30-year-old Jennings,
was an alleged member of the Aryan Brotherhood,
a feared prison gang. According to the
Southern Poverty Law Center,
its members comprise less than one-tenth
of 1 percent of the nation’s prison population
but commit 18 percent of all prison murders.
The Brotherhood is primarily a crime syndicate
that runs prison drug trafficking and prison
prostitution, but it carries a nasty racist overlay.
was an alleged member of the Aryan Brotherhood,
a feared prison gang. According to the
Southern Poverty Law Center,
its members comprise less than one-tenth
of 1 percent of the nation’s prison population
but commit 18 percent of all prison murders.
The Brotherhood is primarily a crime syndicate
that runs prison drug trafficking and prison
prostitution, but it carries a nasty racist overlay.
Attorneys for Lola Krugel, the spirited and elfin woman
who is Earl’s widow, allege that the U.S. government
is culpable for her husband’s death.
She did not want to be quoted, but her suit charges
that prison officials failed to classify Jennings as an
Aryan Brotherhood member despite his gang tattoos.
who is Earl’s widow, allege that the U.S. government
is culpable for her husband’s death.
She did not want to be quoted, but her suit charges
that prison officials failed to classify Jennings as an
Aryan Brotherhood member despite his gang tattoos.
But within minutes of the start of the late-July trial,
as Benjamin Schonbrun, the widow’s attorney,
questioned former prison employee Thomas Bond
about Jenning’s tattoos, Judge Wilson
ordered the court cleared — bending to
U.S. government attorneys,
who wanted internal prison procedures, such
as identifying gang members and gang tattoos, to remain secret.
as Benjamin Schonbrun, the widow’s attorney,
questioned former prison employee Thomas Bond
about Jenning’s tattoos, Judge Wilson
ordered the court cleared — bending to
U.S. government attorneys,
who wanted internal prison procedures, such
as identifying gang members and gang tattoos, to remain secret.
(The federal government is so obsessed with
secrecy in this case, that in a hallway of
the federal building, when Assistant U.S. Attorney David Pinchas was asked by L.A.
Weekly for his name, he only reluctantly provided it.)
secrecy in this case, that in a hallway of
the federal building, when Assistant U.S. Attorney David Pinchas was asked by L.A.
Weekly for his name, he only reluctantly provided it.)
In a statement later, Schonbrun said Wilson acted
“without a fair hearing to permit anyone to dispute
the necessity for a secret trial. When a federal judge
can close an entire trial and exclude our free press, our society suffers.”
“without a fair hearing to permit anyone to dispute
the necessity for a secret trial. When a federal judge
can close an entire trial and exclude our free press, our society suffers.”
Strangely enough, a court order issued by Wilson himself,
and publicly available, reveals many key prison
procedures that had been expected to come out at the hearing.
Moreover, the Aryan Brotherhood tattoos that the
federal attorneys are so reluctant to discuss in public
were found by the Weekly, readily accessible,
on a Web page hosted by the Arizona Department of Corrections.
and publicly available, reveals many key prison
procedures that had been expected to come out at the hearing.
Moreover, the Aryan Brotherhood tattoos that the
federal attorneys are so reluctant to discuss in public
were found by the Weekly, readily accessible,
on a Web page hosted by the Arizona Department of Corrections.
What is known is that in June 2004, before Jennings was moved
to the prison in Phoenix, where he allegedly
murdered Krugel, Kimberly L. Beakey, the Bureau of Prison’s
“designator of inmates” for the Western region,
initially qualified Jennings as a “high-security inmate” —
but then “flexed down” Jennings to medium security
so he could participate in a drug-abuse rehab program that is
unavailable in maximum-security prisons.
to the prison in Phoenix, where he allegedly
murdered Krugel, Kimberly L. Beakey, the Bureau of Prison’s
“designator of inmates” for the Western region,
initially qualified Jennings as a “high-security inmate” —
but then “flexed down” Jennings to medium security
so he could participate in a drug-abuse rehab program that is
unavailable in maximum-security prisons.
Bureau of Prison documents show that Jennings
had described himself as a member of the Aryan Brotherhood a
nd wore its tattoo — so Beakey specifically noted that
further investigation of Jennings was required upon his arrival in Phoenix.
had described himself as a member of the Aryan Brotherhood a
nd wore its tattoo — so Beakey specifically noted that
further investigation of Jennings was required upon his arrival in Phoenix.
If Jennings was in the Aryan Brotherhood,
federal rules required that he be committed t
o maximum security. At issue at last month’s trial
was whether Bond and another prison officer who
saw Jennings upon his arrival in Phoenix did enough
research before allowing Jennings into the general
population, and into the yard where he is believed
to have murdered Earl krugel.Jennings plead guilty eventually and was sentenced to
35 years in Federal Prison.
35 years in Federal Prison.