http://www.westword.com/2000-11-16/news ... guardians/
http://www.westword.com/2000-06-15/news/in-the-hole/
http://www.westword.com/1995-10-25/news/hard-time/
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_13986806
At 6' 11" and 275 pounds, Gray is a lumbering hulk of trouble. Colored from head to foot in tattoos, this onetime Department of Corrections state weightlifting champ revels in his ability to beat, bully, conquer and rape anyone who comes across his path. "What I've done would make a grown man sit straight up in bed at night and break out in a cold sweat," he once boasted.
whether Gray will get his day in court is questionable. At a November 6 hearing on the assault, sheriff's deputies asked that Gray remain in a holding cell rather than being brought to the courtroom. "The last time he was up here, he smashed another person's head against the wall," the deputy explained.
There are lots of scary guys in prison, but Gray is very high on that list. In trouble since he was at least sixteen, Gray has done time for robbery and assault. In 1985 he was convicted of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a woman along the banks of Cherry Creek. He was sentenced to sixteen years for stabbing her fourteen times.
Two years later, Gray was charged with his first in-prison rape. He was found guilty following an administrative hearing and sent to the maximum-security prison in Cañon City.
He was paroled in January 1991 and skipped town a couple of days later. But the following year, he was arrested for robbery and sent back to prison, this time for good. He was deemed a habitual criminal and given three life terms.
Gray couldn't stay out of trouble, even behind bars. In November 1992 he was charged with killing another prisoner. The charge didn't keep prison officials from double-bunking Gray with other prisoners, however, and on July 19, 1993, Gray was given a new cellmate, a 27-year-old who was in on a contraband rap.
The next morning, the man reported he'd been beaten, knocked unconscious and raped. He wouldn't say who'd assaulted him, but he was put on a suicide watch and moved out of Gray's cell. On July 20, Gray got another new roommate. That man lasted less than a day; when he learned he was to bunk with Gray, he demanded to be moved.
So prison officials moved Maynard in.
A captain of the prison guards later admitted in a written statement that he knew Gray had a history as a sexual predator but he believed that moving another large weightlifter into a cell with him would "reduce the potential for another sex assault." The captain failed to mention that Gray outweighed Maynard by 120 pounds.
The trouble started soon after lights out, Maynard told Westword in a 1995 interview ("Hard Time," October 25, 1995). Gray started getting worked up over the necessity of forming "emotional bonds" while in prison. Part of that tie, he explained to Maynard, was physical bonding. At about 3 a.m., Maynard said, Gray attacked him, choking him into near-unconsciousness, then sexually assaulted him.
Maynard decided to hell with the convict code of silence, and he told a guard what had happened. Gray was slam-dunked into solitary, and the following day, after learning that he was locked up, the victim of the July 19 assault also named Gray as his attacker.
In 1993, Mervin had words with a corrections officer, and was reassigned to share a cell with Gray, a 300-pound man capable of bench-pressing 500 pounds. That was just days after another inmate had reported being raped by Gray and was removed from the cell.
Mervin was beaten and raped that night.
The way the prison culture works, prison rape victims keep quiet and keep getting raped, Mervin said.
"They are supposed to go to their corner to lick their wounds," he said.
Mervin bucked the system and sought an attorney.
The decision has haunted him ever since, he said.
He said Limon correctional officers told other inmates that he was a snitch and to retaliate against him for filing a lawsuit. Thereafter, he was often confronted by members of the "211 Gang," and the "Aryan Syndicate Gang," both white supremacist gangs.
He extended his arms out over a table in the Fremont prison visitor's room to show where inmates had slashed him with a shank, or prison knife. In an inventory of his injuries, he recounted a broken thumb, a broken ankle, a dislocated shoulder, a broken jaw and burns when an inmate threw boiling water on him.
Gray is so strong that deputies have used modified leg irons to restrain his wrists. On Tuesday, Gray bent the leg irons and broke out of them, according to 7NEWS. Authorities said that Gray has threatened to cause problems or hurt someone in the courtroom during his trial, where he is representing himself. Defense lawyers have refused to represent him because he's threatened to kill them, 7NEWS reporter Julie Hayden said. In an interview at the jail, he told 7NEWS that he has killed 41 people.
ALso lol at the comment on the first article I linked to:
Marvin mutha fuckin Gray! The Colorado Corrections Legend! I've heard so many stories about this guy while doin time its not even funny. The most memorable one was that one time he told his celly to stick his dick in the hole of the top bunk so he could suck it. The guy was so scared that he did what he was told and Marvin tied his dick off and raped him while he was tied up! Whoa!? They say he used to work out with fools to get em' big so he could knock em' out and fuck em' because he didn't want to be called a fag! I don't care how you try to coat it if you stick your dick in another man you're a fag! Don't tell him I said that though....lol!
