Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 07:48:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Killer Punished After eBay Sales (fwd)



Saturday September 18 12:59 AM ET

Killer Punished After eBay Sales
By JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press Writer

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A serial killer whose paintings were
sold on the Internet auction site eBay has been punished
with two years in solitary confinement and lost his art
privileges for five years.
Arthur Shawcross, who killed 11 Rochester-area women, will
be confined to a cell for 23 hours a day at Fallsburg's
Sullivan Correctional Facility in the Catskills, Department
of Corrections Commissioner Glenn Goord said Friday. He will
only be brought out for one hour of court-mandated exercise.
During those two years, he also will not be able to receive
packages, visit the prison commissary or use the prison
telephones for nonlegal business, prison officials said.
Shawcross also will not be able to participate in any arts
or crafts programs or be allow to buy or sell any arts or
crafts items for five years, Goord said.
Shawcross, 54, is serving a lifetime prison sentence.
Officials say he has been mailing drawings, oil paintings
and portraits - notably of Marilyn Monroe and stock-car
driver Dale Earnhardt - as well as autographs to dealers.
His work would then show up on the Internet for public
auction.
In return, Shawcross would occasionally get gifts such as
clothes and shoes instead of cash, officials said.
It is illegal for inmates to run any kind of business in
prison, Goord said.


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