A former warden at the prison where the Boston Marathon bomber lives has harshly criticized the killer for saving more than $24,000 in prison, including donations from sick strangers.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 30, has been on death row at Colorado’s ADMAX Florence, known as the ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies,’ since his conviction in 2015 for inciting the horrific mass casualty event of April 15, 2013.
He has $4,000 in his prison canteen account, which he can use to purchase various items such as food and clothing at the prison store, and a $26,000 fund comprising donations from his sisters, lawyers and strangers.
Former Supermax boss Bob Hood has criticized Tsarnaev’s failure to pay the $101 million he owes to victims while making considerable savings on his own, calling it “offensive.”
“He came in homeless and should stay homeless,” Hood said. Boston Herald. ‘It’s sick that he has any kind of followers… Why would he even receive a cent?’
A former warden at the prison where Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (pictured) lives has harshly criticized the killer for saving more than $24,000 in prison and not paying any of his victims.
Tsarnaev has been on death row at Colorado’s ADMAX Florence (pictured from above), known as the ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’, after being found guilty of inciting the horrific mass casualty event of April 15, 2013. .
Three people died: Martin Richard, 8 years old; Krystle Campbell, 29; and Lu Lingzi, 23, and more than 260 runners were injured, including 17 people who lost limbs in the horrific attack.
Hood added that the cost to taxpayers of keeping Tsarnaev in prison has also easily exceeded $1 million, excluding his to-date undisclosed legal bill.
“He’s the million-dollar terrorist,” Hood told the Herald.
Meanwhile, Tsarnaev’s attorney is taking steps to stop the Boston feds from seizing his client’s $4,223.86 canteen account.
“He is not hoarding funds or spending wastefully,” attorney David Patton wrote in legal documents attached to the appeal.
The lawyer added that his killer client “continues to receive unsolicited deposits from people he has never met” but has “not had access” to the money.
Patton said Tsarnaev earns $25 a month working as a prison cleaner and uses his canteen account to purchase “commissary items such as allergy medication, sports clothing needed for orderly outdoor work, food and stamps.” “.
He pays just $35 each month in restitution to victims, of which he owes $101 million. Patton said he has paid about $2,600 so far.
Tsarnaev also received a $1,400 Covid-19 relief payment given to all prisoners two years ago, but the Prison Board has “placed him on administrative leave.”
Pictured: Boston firefighter James Plourde carries an injured girl from the scene after an attack near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
Along with his brother Tamarlan, Tsarnaev placed two pressure cooker bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon race on April 15, 2013.
Martin Richard was only eight years old when he died in the attack while cheering on the runners with his family in the crowd.
Krystle Campbell, 29, a restaurant manager from Medford, Massachusetts, was among those killed in the explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line.
Lingzi Lu, 23, a Chinese graduate student from Boston, died in the domestic terrorist attack.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 26, of Somerville, Mass., who was shot and killed Thursday, April 18, 2013, on the school’s campus in Cambridge, Mass.
Last month, a federal appeals court ordered the judge who presided over Tsarnaev’s 2015 trial to investigate whether two jurors were biased and should not have been seated.
Tsarnaev’s lawyers said a Facebook friend told one juror to “join the jury” and send him “to jail where he would be treated,” while the second juror retweeted a Twitter post calling a “piece” to the murderer. of garbage.’
U.S. Circuit Judge William Kayatta, writing for the majority, said that if the trial judge concluded that any of the jurors should have been disqualified, Tsarnaev would be entitled to a new trial in the penalty phase to re-trial. determine whether he should be sentenced to death.
‘And even then, we once again emphasize that the only question in any such proceedings will be whether Tsarnaev will face execution; Regardless of the outcome, he will spend the rest of his life in prison,” Kayatta wrote.
Along with his brother Tamarlan, Tsarnaev placed two pressure cooker bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon race on April 15, 2013.
Suspicious photos released by police of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, then 26, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, then 19.
Three people died: Martin Richard, 8 years old; Krystle Campbell, 29; and Lu Lingzi, 23, and more than 260 runners were injured, including 17 people who lost limbs.
Three days later, on April 18, the FBI released images of the murderous brothers, and MIT police officer Sean Collier, 27, was shot that night while searching for them.
They were captured again by police in Watertown and engaged in another shooting, during which two officers were seriously injured and one, 28-year-old Dennis Simmonds, died a year later.
Tamerlan was shot several times during the altercation and was run over by Dzhokhar while escaping in a stolen car. He died shortly after.