Kody Patten To The “Graveyard” ESP?

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Teddy Costanzo, father of the murdered Mickie, told the court Friday that he wanted nothing more than to see Kody Patten “leave prison in a box”.

His wish may come sooner rather than later.

All prisons have nicknames Alcatraz was known as the “Rock”, Pelican Bay – “Skeleton Bay”, San Quentin is known as the “Arena”. Nevada’s Maximum Security Prison in Ely, Patten’s probable future home is called the “Graveyard”.

According to former and present inmates Ely Max earned its name due to what they call the larger than normal number of deaths at the facility than other prisons.

“Ely State Prison is a place of death, stagnation, misery, pain, loneliness and indeterminate lock down. If you were to take a walk on one of these depressing tiers back here in “the hole,” you would hear many disembodied voices ring out, yelling in anger and frustration, trying to tell you how bad it is for us in here, in between the isolated confines of steel and stone.” Wrote an inmate under the pseudonym of ‘Coyote’ “…I can see why Ely State Prison is labeled “The Graveyard,” there are so many deaths there. It is a locked down, maximum security prison, all but half of one unit – the workers unit – which is on one side of Unit 8…”

And based on his crime, his sentence, his psychological profile, and his propensity for violence Ely Max is the probable final destination for Kody Patten.

Unmoved by his lawyers contention that Kody Patten was dupe in the brutal murder of Micaela “Mickie” Costanzo White Pine District Judge Dan Papez sentenced the former West Wendover High School student to the maximum life without parole Friday in Elko District Court.

The scheduled seven hour hearing actually was over after three hours and the bombshells implied by the defense failed to materialize or were duds. In the months and week before the sentencing Patten’s lead attorney John Pohlson of Reno said the might present entries Toni Fratto, Patten’s accomplice, made in her diary of her hatred for Mickie Costanzo indicating that the motive for her murder was Fratto’s jealously.

Patten’s first stop is the Nevada State Prison in Carson City where he will be classified and processed. For Patten his possibilities are few. He will either stay in Carson City, the state’s medium security facility, or be sent to Ely Max.

According to a prison official who spoke on the condition of anonymity Patten’s brutal crime virtually assures him of a one way ticket to the “Graveyard”.

“…Deterioration is a normal occurrence in here. In fact, if you were to ask the prisoners around here if they think the conditions here will get better or worse, most of them will tell you things are only going to get worse.” Coyote continued. “Pessimism and hopelessness permeate the minds and attitudes of the average prisoner in here. There’s nothing much to look forward to, besides the next meal, and maybe a letter in the mail, if you’re lucky.”

In a grizzly punctuation mark to the blog, White Pine County detectives were called in just last week to investigate another possible murder at the facility. Clayton Lavell Wrencher, 49, was found dead in his cell Friday.

Wrencher, like Patten, was serving a life without parole sentence. For Wrencher that life term ended up being less than four years.

While neither prison or sheriff investigators are releasing the cause of death as of press date, Coyote wrote one his blog: ”Rumor has it there was another death at Ely State Prison, on the date of August 17th, 2012. Allegedly, someone had choked their cellie to death. This supposedly took place in Unit 8, on the workers’ side this time. It remains to be seen if the wardens will completely close Unit 8 down, permanently. There was just a death in Unit 8, earlier this year, in march, on the non-workers side, which resulted in that wing of Unit 8 being locked down permanently.

Any time something like this happens at Ely State Prison, all of the prisoners are punished, whether they had something to do with it or not. This is called “Group Punishment,” and it really serves no significant purpose, other than to mete out more repression to the prisoners. It obviously does not stop more deaths from occurring.”

How many times has someone killed their cellie at E.S.P.?  And out of all the times this has happened, when has the Administration ever said, “We are going to stop letting you have cellies!”? Never. In fact, most of the deaths that happen at Ely State Prison happen in the cells, by their cell mates, allegedly.

So wouldn’t it make sense to forbid the prisoners to be in a cell with other prisoners? Yes, of course it would make sense, but it is highly unlikely that this would ever happen, because the Administration needs to cell prisoners up with other prisoners, or else they would have no other place to put them. So Administration does what they need to do, to serve their interests, at the cost of other prisoners’ lives, and to shift the blame from themselves, they keep finding ways to take it out on all of the other prisoners that had no involvement, meanwhile, year after year, more prisoners die.”

The number of murders at the “Graveyard”, inmates insist, is by far exceeded by suicides, accidental deaths and officially unknown causes.