Recently I wrote, “It kind of looks like they [Richard Matt and David Sweat] had the help of one or more correctional officers. So far none of the correctional officers at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York have been implicated in the escape. Instead, Joyce Mitchell, a civilian employee appears to be the main suspect. She was arrested today and charged with promoting prison contraband in the first degree, a felony, and criminal facilitation in the fourth degree, a misdemeanor.
Mitchell is reported to have admitted to New York State Police investigators that she slipped Matt and Sweat hacksaw blades, drill bits and lighted eyeglasses. She also agreed to pick the two convicted murderers up at the manhole from which they emerged, but at the last minute she chickened out and checked herself into a hospital with a panic attack.
According to the authorities, Mitchell did not furnish any power tools to the escapees. Since all of the prison’s power tools were accounted for, it is believed that Matt and Sweat were able to swipe them from contractors working at the prison.
Now picture this. Matt and Sweat occupied different cells. Each separately cut through cell walls that included a steel plate. After they got through the wall, they twice severed a 24-inch steam pipe, once to get in and once more to get out. All of that work took hours and, even if muffled with a blanket, had to make a tremendous amount of noise. And no correctional officers heard it?
Now I will say that instead of only one correctional officer, Matt and Sweat had the help of several officers in addition to the help they received from Mitchell. That help was either deliberate or came about through the gross negligence of the officers on duty.
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Deliberate gross negligence of correctional officers goes on all the time, everywhere. Afterall, they are not a savvy bunch of people. eg. a convicted murderer in max-security prison is bludgeoned to death. CCTVs rolling in every corner of every room, yet nobody sees or hears anything. It takes twenty minutes for a prisoner to alert correctional officers that someone has been laying dead in a pool of blood. A few weeks later, the correctional officer-in-charge suddenly disappears off the face of this planet. Guess what? police claim no suspicious circumstances for the disappearance - he just vanished into thin air - gone!
"Deliberate gross negligence" happens all the time for every classification of people there is in this world. Blanket statements like the one Dorina Lisson made singling out a specific group of people is ignorant and no different then saying all correctional officers are perfect & professional.
There is no single person or group of people in this world who are perfect and without negligence and there never will be any when discussing humans. There are good & bad in every group or classification everywhere, including those who choose corrections as a way to pay their bills.
Believing the Hollywood "Shawshank Redemption" or the "Green mile" version of of how guards behave is no different then making a blanket statement about anyone's behavior (good or bad) 100 percent of the time. No-one is perfect & making a blanket statement like this is one of the many reasons our society is in such a sorry state of affairs these day's.
Have a wonderful day!
Delbert Cutsinger....
It shows a lack of character and knowledge when someone makes blanket statements about a section of society or occupation. It's one of the largest problems in the world today. It breeds prejudice and if the media quotes the statement it causes the stories to be sensationalized. Comments being made about matters should be specific.
With the mention of construction crews in the area, the noise may have been undetected do to legitimate work being done on site.
[quote] It shows a lack of character and knowledge when someone makes blanket statements about a section of society. [unquote]
So true - only hypocrites put all offenders in this one 'blanket' statement!
[quote] No person is perfect. [unquote]
So true - not even cops that shoot dead unarmed offenders!
The biggest threat to humanity are the judgemental self-righteous hypocrites !!!
When did this thread leave deliberate gross negligence of corrections officers and begin to discuss cops shooting unarmed offenders?
Tonto
Tonto, you make it sound like cops are going around deliberately and knowingly shooting down unarmed people. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are very rare instances where this has happened as in the case of Walter Scott, a black man running from North Charleston, S.C. Police Officer Michael Slager last April. Slager, a white cop, was promptly fired and he has now been indicted for murder, as he well should have been. Again, that kind of shooting is a rare exception.
In almost every instance, when a cop shoots an unarmed offender, he believed that man was armed and posed an imminent threat to his life, or the offender was overpowering him and about to inflict serious or life threatening injuries on him.
The recent indictments of cops, like in the unfortunate shooting of a 12-year-old Cleveland boy, are politically motivated and disregard the circumstances that resulted in an unarmed man getting shot by the police.
Tonto, for some reason you seem to hate cops. The next time you need a cop, don't call for one, call for the Lone Ranger instead.
The point I was making is that the comments had changed topics. I don't hate cops. Please read it again. I would like to see my old friend Kemosabe again.
Tonto
Tonto, please accept my sincere apology if I misinterpreted your comment. I thought you meant when did my posts change from gross negligent officers to cops shooting unarmed offenders, instead of the comments changing.
I'm glad you don't hate cops and I hope you'll get to see your old friend Kemosabe again.
The Lone Ranger was out riding around in the desert when suddenly he was set upon by a band of Indians. As he was trespassing on their land, they took him back to their camp. They then tied him to a post and their chief exclaimed that they would burn him at the stake come sunup.
The Lone Ranger asked the chief if he would grant him a last request. After thinking about it, the chief said that this would be okay. So, the Lone Ranger, whistled for his horse, Silver, who trotted up to him. As all eyes were upon the strange sight, the Lone Ranger whispered in the horse’s ears. After but a moment, Silver the horse nickered, and then took off for the relative safety of the desert. Everyone watched as he galloped away in a cloud of dust.... With a shout, all the Indians began dancing wildly around the Lone Ranger, adding more pieces of wood to his as yet unlit pyre as they gyrated and whooped around the circle. This went on all night long.
As the sun broke in the horizon and the first light of day lit both prairie and the Indian encampment, the chief gave another bark of command and the dancing came to a standstill....
“It is time,” he said. “Time to punish you for desecrating our land.”
The Lone Ranger stared on intently, preparing himself for what was to come.
Suddenly, from the outer edge of the encampment, a disturbance arose as Silver returned, riding back at full gallop. This time, however, he was not alone. Riding on his back was a voluptuous woman, her long, blonde hair flowing behind her in the breeze.
Nobody moved as both woman and horse strode up to the Lone Ranger. All remained quiet in order to hear what was said. Only the Lone Ranger, who was slowly shaking his head, displayed any emotion.
With an exasperated sigh, he looked up at Silver and admonished, “I said posse, POSSE!
Tonto
The Lone Ranger and Tonto are riding through one of the many canyons when suddenly rising from the hill on their right are hundreds of Indians. They start to spur their horse forward when they realised that thereare hundreds of indians ahead of them. Wheeling to the left they, onceagain, see hundreds of indians rising from the hill. They begin to back awayin the direction from which they had come and they realise, they weresurrounded. The indians had spread out. They were trapped.
The Lone Ranger turns to Tonto, his life long friend, and says "Tonto, my friend, I think I must say that I have treasured our times together but now I think we are doomed".
" We?" replied Tonto "What's all this we, Paleface?"
Tonto
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