I guess prison guard would have to open it but probably no reason for town workers to access it.
NY - Search for escaped convicted killers, David Sweat & Richard Matt, Dannemora #1
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I guess prison guard would have to open it but probably no reason for town workers to access it.
The president of New York State Correctional Lieutenants believes staffing issues contributed to Saturday's escape from Clinton Correctional Facility.
Tad A. Levac told the Press-Republican that he has been pressing the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for a year to add a field lieutenant at the Dannemora prison.
"We have a watch commander up front, but there are 3,000 inmates there, and we need a field lieutenant out back to supervise, because of the violence," Levac said.
Officers are stationed in the towers that overlook the grounds, "but they are not all manned at midnight,"
"We have lots of young officers coming in," he said. "They need that supervision."
"This doesn't sound like it happened on a whim," she said. "They could have been planning this for a year."
"The mood is one of great concern, obviously," she said.
"They are putting in a long, stressful day, but the No. 1 priority is to keep the community safe and get these guys back in prison."
http://www.correctionsone.com/corre...ieutenants-blames-NY-escape-on-understaffing/
Tad A. Levac told the Press-Republican that he has been pressing the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for a year to add a field lieutenant at the Dannemora prison.
"We have a watch commander up front, but there are 3,000 inmates there, and we need a field lieutenant out back to supervise, because of the violence," Levac said.
Officers are stationed in the towers that overlook the grounds, "but they are not all manned at midnight,"
"We have lots of young officers coming in," he said. "They need that supervision."
"This doesn't sound like it happened on a whim," she said. "They could have been planning this for a year."
"The mood is one of great concern, obviously," she said.
"They are putting in a long, stressful day, but the No. 1 priority is to keep the community safe and get these guys back in prison."
http://www.correctionsone.com/corre...ieutenants-blames-NY-escape-on-understaffing/
The maximum-security prison where two killers pulled off a "Shawshank Redemption"-style escape has a reputation for brutality that belies the reform-minded ideals it was founded upon when it opened on an Adirondack mountainside in 1845.
"That reform mindset didn't last," ......."Within a decade, Dannemora was using a dungeon for solitary confinement, as well as a chair bath, which was basically waterboarding.
Today, nearly two centuries later, the 3,000-inmate prison retains an infamous reputation for brutality that ranks it among the worst in the New York state prison system.
A 2014 report .....found Clinton Correctional Facility is a place where there is little oversight, guards regularly beat inmates and racial tension festers between prisoners and corrections officers.
The report found that while 63 percent of inmates statewide are locked up for violent crimes, at Clinton, that figure is about 90 percent.
Any inmate who might have heard David Sweat and Richard Matt sawing through their steel cell walls with power tools wouldn't dream of saying anything, due to a culture of violence and fear that dictates a strict code of silence.
The facility itself is massive, O'Donnell said, with dank, dark cell blocks and facilities that are great distances away from one another, ill-equipped for full security camera coverage.
. At one time there was a ski jump for inmate use. There was a tuberculosis hospital and an insane asylum, which have been converted to other uses.
A review Monday of state records shows at least a dozen open contracts for construction work at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, Clinton County,
No one had ever escaped from the maximum-security unit since it was opened in 1865
They had at least six hours on the run before prison officials noticed they were missing early Saturday morning.
In 2011, Matt received a prison disciplinary charge for smuggling, tattooing and false information and was sent for 30 days to a special housing unit with loss of recreation, package and phone privileges
He also has a 1986 conviction for criminal possession of a forged instrument and escape following his breakout from the Erie County facility.
His prison disciplinary run-ins came last September when he was charged with interference and harassment; there were no further details
Matt was transferred to Clinton in 2008; Sweat arrived at Clinton in 2003.
investigators are looking into whether outside contractors or the contractors' employees had any connection to the escapees.
http://www.correctionsone.com/corre...rs-had-been-in-special-honor-block-at-prison/
http://www.correctionsone.com/corre...ndreds-involved-in-NY-prison-escapee-manhunt/
"That reform mindset didn't last," ......."Within a decade, Dannemora was using a dungeon for solitary confinement, as well as a chair bath, which was basically waterboarding.
Today, nearly two centuries later, the 3,000-inmate prison retains an infamous reputation for brutality that ranks it among the worst in the New York state prison system.
A 2014 report .....found Clinton Correctional Facility is a place where there is little oversight, guards regularly beat inmates and racial tension festers between prisoners and corrections officers.
The report found that while 63 percent of inmates statewide are locked up for violent crimes, at Clinton, that figure is about 90 percent.
Any inmate who might have heard David Sweat and Richard Matt sawing through their steel cell walls with power tools wouldn't dream of saying anything, due to a culture of violence and fear that dictates a strict code of silence.
The facility itself is massive, O'Donnell said, with dank, dark cell blocks and facilities that are great distances away from one another, ill-equipped for full security camera coverage.
. At one time there was a ski jump for inmate use. There was a tuberculosis hospital and an insane asylum, which have been converted to other uses.
A review Monday of state records shows at least a dozen open contracts for construction work at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, Clinton County,
No one had ever escaped from the maximum-security unit since it was opened in 1865
They had at least six hours on the run before prison officials noticed they were missing early Saturday morning.
In 2011, Matt received a prison disciplinary charge for smuggling, tattooing and false information and was sent for 30 days to a special housing unit with loss of recreation, package and phone privileges
He also has a 1986 conviction for criminal possession of a forged instrument and escape following his breakout from the Erie County facility.
His prison disciplinary run-ins came last September when he was charged with interference and harassment; there were no further details
Matt was transferred to Clinton in 2008; Sweat arrived at Clinton in 2003.
investigators are looking into whether outside contractors or the contractors' employees had any connection to the escapees.
http://www.correctionsone.com/corre...rs-had-been-in-special-honor-block-at-prison/
| http://www.correctionsone.com/corrections/articles/8566417-History-of-violence-plagues-prison-where-breakout-occurred/ |
http://www.correctionsone.com/corre...ndreds-involved-in-NY-prison-escapee-manhunt/
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I may be taking things wrong with this report, but just about everything about the highlights of the report makes me cringe.
"They were separated temporarily,"
-Ok, so just temporarily? Like let them back together after a few days?
"did not deem that it rose to the level of requiring further action."
-Surely not. Getting them back together will take care of needing future action.
"It was handled in-house,"
-Yeah, we can tell it was. Nice job.
I know hind sight is 20-20 but good grief. I agree with another poster that heads are going to roll in that prison admin. Or i at least hope so.
Life in the sleepy hamlets and towns shadowed by the Adirondack Mountains has been transformed by incessant rumors, roadblocks, buzzing helicopters, troopers in schools, residents under lockdown and the invasion of a small army of law enforcement officers.
"It's like a military state," said Steve Lashway, who runs a meat market and deli in Dannemora.
Thomas LaSalle, 31, said he has been told to stay locked in his house as the manhunt continues. Some residents could only leave their homes with a state police escort. Armored vehicles drive by now and then.
In the rain overnight, groups of officers stood guard every 100 feet, LaSalle said.
I got the shakes," he said. "It's a lot of excitement. It's like a lockdown."
A state trooper had stood guard at every school, but on Thursday classes were canceled. Bus drivers had waited for children who wanted to remain inside their homes until buses arrived.
"Life has been insane," Lashway told CNN on Thursday. "We have ... officers on every corner with shotguns, and there are roadblocks up everywhere." Rumors about the fugitives' whereabouts were rampant.
. "Just about every day, somebody comes into the shop and says, 'They've got 'em. They've got 'em.' But nope, they don't. The next day same thing."
"
The notorious Mafioso Charles "Lucky" Luciano did 10 years there before being deported to Italy.
Robert Chambers, the so-called preppy murderer, was transferred there after committing infractions at another prison.
"We're very concerned. Everyone who has a dog that barks at night, 'Is it an animal or are they here?'"
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said investigators are also "talking to several people who may have facilitated the escape."
Cuomo warned that the law will come down hard on those in the prison system who cross the line.
"If you do it, you will be convicted, and then you'll be on the other side of the prison that you've been policing, and that is not a pleasant place to be," he said.
Law enforcement officers walking an arm's length apart were conducting a grid search through a cordoned-off area consisting of mud, woods, thick underbrush and several houses,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/11/new-york-prison-escape_n_7565324.html?utm_hp_ref=crime
http://www.wxii12.com/national/ny-prison-escape-towns-under-lockdown/33530378
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/11/new-york-prison-escape_n_7565324.html?utm_hp_ref=crime
"It's like a military state," said Steve Lashway, who runs a meat market and deli in Dannemora.
Thomas LaSalle, 31, said he has been told to stay locked in his house as the manhunt continues. Some residents could only leave their homes with a state police escort. Armored vehicles drive by now and then.
In the rain overnight, groups of officers stood guard every 100 feet, LaSalle said.
I got the shakes," he said. "It's a lot of excitement. It's like a lockdown."
A state trooper had stood guard at every school, but on Thursday classes were canceled. Bus drivers had waited for children who wanted to remain inside their homes until buses arrived.
"Life has been insane," Lashway told CNN on Thursday. "We have ... officers on every corner with shotguns, and there are roadblocks up everywhere." Rumors about the fugitives' whereabouts were rampant.
. "Just about every day, somebody comes into the shop and says, 'They've got 'em. They've got 'em.' But nope, they don't. The next day same thing."
"
The notorious Mafioso Charles "Lucky" Luciano did 10 years there before being deported to Italy.
Robert Chambers, the so-called preppy murderer, was transferred there after committing infractions at another prison.
"We're very concerned. Everyone who has a dog that barks at night, 'Is it an animal or are they here?'"
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said investigators are also "talking to several people who may have facilitated the escape."
Cuomo warned that the law will come down hard on those in the prison system who cross the line.
"If you do it, you will be convicted, and then you'll be on the other side of the prison that you've been policing, and that is not a pleasant place to be," he said.
Law enforcement officers walking an arm's length apart were conducting a grid search through a cordoned-off area consisting of mud, woods, thick underbrush and several houses,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/11/new-york-prison-escape_n_7565324.html?utm_hp_ref=crime
http://www.wxii12.com/national/ny-prison-escape-towns-under-lockdown/33530378
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/11/new-york-prison-escape_n_7565324.html?utm_hp_ref=crime
I love that part of it. All their months of hard work and meticulous planning up in smoke because 'ol Tilly chickened out.
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Today on CNN they were showing video of the guards standing at the tower station with riffles and DH started laughing so hard then said what's he gonna do with the riffle they crawled right past the tower, just sit down. Agree about heads rolling. The warden has got to be nervous. Jmo
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Admittedly my sense of humor is on par with a 13-year-old boy, but please tell me I'm not the only one snickering every time the word "tool" is used.
"Sewing with Tillie" New Reality Show? Anybody???
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Good lord! The sympathizers will be coming out of the woodwork with excuses for this woman. At least she saved her own life imo once she drove away with them she would have been killed. Jmo all the planning no planB I'd she didn't show up?
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I'm catching up now! Hilarious! :hilarious: Y'all be doin' me proud. *sniff
They can come over to my house, I'll hide them! I'll dig a deep hole, they can jump in and I'll cover it up with cement. Nobody will ever find them!
Not to mention her employers (taxpayers), or the whole United State Public!!!
"Dreamboat Matt" :giggle: There are a lot of good posts in this thread.
It is nice to have a thread where everyone's sense of humor is appreciated. This one isn't about child kidnappers, molesters or child murderers - missing people so it is a little lighter. Exhaustion will do this to you!!
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