Texas: Warren Jeffs Hospitalized Because of Fast.
In: New York Times, Jg. 160 (2011-08-31), Heft 55514, S. 14
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The polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, described by a Texas prison official as ''awake and alert,'' was moved Tuesday to a prison hospital for additional treatment after he became sick while fasting. Michelle Lyons, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said Mr. Jeffs was flown 215 miles from East Texas Medical Center in Tyler, where he was admitted Sunday, to the Texas prison hospital at Galveston. She said he was in stable condition and was expected to fully recover. Mr. Jeffs, 55, was assigned last week to the Powledge Unit, about 100 miles southeast of Dallas, to serve his life sentence for sexually assaulting under-age girls. On Sunday, he was taken to the Tyler hospital after telling corrections officers he had been fasting since his conviction this month and was ill. This was not the first time Mr. Jeffs has required hospitalization in the years since he first was locked up. He tried to hang himself in January 2007 while awaiting trial on rape charges in Washington County, Utah, and threw himself against the walls of his cell and banged his head, although he later told a mental health expert he really was not trying to kill himself. In the same time period, he was hospitalized for dehydration and depression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Texas: Warren Jeffs Hospitalized Because of Fast.
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Zeitschrift: | New York Times, Jg. 160 (2011-08-31), Heft 55514, S. 14 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2011 |
Medientyp: | Zeitungsartikel |
ISSN: | 0362-4331 (print) |
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