Friday, May 21, 2021

THAT WOULD BE HARD TO CLEAN UP

by Bob Walsh

I have counted a housing unit many times.  Once I got the hang of it I did pretty well.  The ONE THING they impressed upon us was you must see a living, breathing body.  At the standing count that was not an issue.  At the 0001, 0230 and 0430 counts it could be an issue.  Some guys slept awfully still and buried in the blankets.  I had to wake more than one person up with the command "Show Me Some Skin."  

According to the CA State IG report, given twice a year, two unnamed correctional officers at an unnamed prison counted a dead, decapitated inmate as being both present and alive and then falsified records to try to cover their butt.

It seems that two unit officers did incompetent counts or did paper counts (not counting but pencil-whipping it) and two other unit officers did not rat them out.

In addition one officer (allegedly) flat-out lied to the secret squirrel squad doing the IA investigation and the secret squirrel squad did a piss-poor investigation in general.  In addition the IG alleges the administration deliberately slow-dragged the investigation.  (Probably a home boy protection issue though that could be basic incompetence as well.)  Further the local authorities settled the issue with penalties well below the level that would have been expected without justification (yup, home boy issue).  

In addition the state lawyer screwed the pooch on the time limits on the reports.  Also NOBODY bothered to check to see if the inmates were appropriately housed together.

Looks like the fuck-up fairy paid a LOT of visits to this place.

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