File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1999/avant-garde.9909, message 19


Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 06:15:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: rutger h cornets de groot <cornets-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Killer Punished After eBay Sales (fwd)



If his work has quality then I say it is a terrible
shame. If it doesn't I say it serves him right.

RC

--- { brad brace } <bbrace-AT-ncal.verio.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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