During his first six weeks in jail, the leader of a southern Utah polygamist church had frequent visits from a brother and another church elder — both of whom dissidents suggest are carrying messages from Purgatory Correctional Facility to the faithful. […]
The Associated Press obtained the list of Jeffs’ weekly visitors through a public records request made to Washington County Sheriff Kirk Smith. The list shows 17 different visitors signed in between Sept. 4-Nov. 4.
Jeffs’ most frequent visitor has been Richard Wright, the Las Vegas attorney Jeffs hired after his Aug. 28 arrest on a federal flight warrant during a Las Vegas-area traffic stop. Wright has made a dozen visits, some of them with Salt Lake City attorneys he helped Jeffs screen for the Utah case. […]
Jeffs exercises tremendous controls over his followers, dictating everything from who marries and when, to ordering excommunications and directing church members whether to pay taxes and cooperate with police and government officials.
The frequency of visitors from church members seems to indicate that Jeffs continues to be in control, said Isaac Wyler, a former church member who said he was kicked out by Jeffs in January 2004. […]
“That says to me they’re the ones that are carrying messages,” said Wyler. “They’ll be bringing in questions and leaving with answers.” […]
This is a summary extract of the full article as it appeared on Fox News, Nov. 30, 2006
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