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Subject: New UNION STEWARDS


Author:
Info...
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Date Posted: 15:17:21 03/13/08 Thu
As of March 12....Union Stewards are:
Wilder
Flanagan
Ballantyne
Arsenault
Cummings
Nahim
Finnell
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Subject: Pay the Officers that walk the "Toughest Beat" accordingly


Author:
Trump
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Date Posted: 21:12:21 03/20/08 Thu
Officers at "Walpole" and "Souza" truly walk the "toughest beat in the state. It is time that we are paid for it. I'm not going to belittle what our Brother Officers are doing at the Medium and Minimums. I'm simply stating that our jobs are much more dangerous than yours.

If we posted photos on the intranet of every weapon we found at Walpole you all would be shocked. We find more weapons in one shift than many Institutions find in one year. We are assaulted on a daily basis. we do not even have the opportunity to transfer out.

Our contract is up next June. We should not approve ANY contract that does not include some type of hazzard duty pay for Officers that work in higher security facilities. My brothers we need not ask for it we need to DEMAND it. Support NO contract that does not allow for a higher pay scale for level 6 facilities. Support NO candidate that will not support a higher pay scale.

For those of you that do not agree with me I offer you a challenge. Come to Walpole, or spend a shift at Souza. See if it is someplace that you would want to work on a daily basis. I challenge you!!

Stay safe!!
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Subject: what a joke


Author:
co
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Date Posted: 18:26:34 03/28/08 Fri
Friday, March 28, 2008
Legal Briefs
Law firm makes history in Muslim prisoner court caseBoston Business Journal - by Lisa van der Pool Journal staff
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Roughly 20 times during the past four years, two young associates with McDermott Will & Emery made their way out to MCI Cedar Junction, the state's maximum security prison in Walpole.

Neal E. Minahan and Benjamin A. Golberger were visiting their clients, two Muslim prisoners engaged in a dragged-out battle with the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. The inmates -- Mac Hudson and Derick Tyler -- claimed the prison had violated their religious rights by refusing to provide them with Halal meals, that is, food prepared in accordance with Islamic law. The inmates also say they were forced to use a prayer "towel" as opposed to a traditional prayer rug and were barred from participating in a Muslim prayer group when they were confined to "Ten Block," an area in the jail separate from the general population, according to court documents.

Earlier this month -- after a six-year stretch that saw the prisoners cook their own food or entirely abstain from eating -- the court agreed with them.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns ruled in favor of the pair in regards to the Halal meals and the prayer services. The March 5 decision marked the first time a U.S. court decided that Muslim inmates have a right to daily Halal meals and prayer services.

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Subject: Busta the only thing you proved is you're a shitty carpenter!


Author:
Sara Barton
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Date Posted: 07:01:13 03/23/08 Sun
Hey Busta, I don't think people are intentionally trying to shoot you with the nail gun or slice you with the utility knife, where in prison they would. See the difference there Bob the Builder? All you did was admit that you are an accident prone moron, you probably stick the Folger Adams key in your eye while you're trying to operate a cell door. Keep your stupidity to yourself, so that nobody will know the truth, dipshit!
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Subject: TRUTH


Author:
TRUTH
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Date Posted: 16:42:03 03/20/08 Thu
This is not bashing anyone other than Administration!!!
And I know for a fact they read it! So, have fun!
We, Officers at Walpole (new and old), continue to get assaulted by inmates and then followed by disrespect by certain Administrators. The person currently running Walpole never worked online as an Officer. R u kidding me, he stopped booze cruises in the morning because the inmates demanded it! He didn't move on an inmate who had stabbed an Officer until the following day!
C'Mon Uncle Pete grow a backbone. Your Officers walk into work everyday to do a public service and YOU continually let them down by being a COWARD! We can sit here and place blame on the Union but we make up that Union. People we need to be a little bit more unified. The Supt. is a hazard to Walpole! He allows staff assaults to go by the waste side. He is unwilling to give credit to his line staff. He is allowing the mental health department run the worst institution in the state. C'mon one of the major mental health workers was just walked off the property for fraternization. Really instead of the bitch board tearing apart our brothers in blue lets stand united and put it on the people to blame....Administration and the pathetic mental health prostitutes! To the two Officers that were assaulted yesterday...you're in our prayers. Your duties haven't gone unnoticed by fellow officers. To the rest of the clan at Walpole be safe and whether you like one another or not-we're all we've got! Because the higher powers don't give a damn!
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  • Re: TRUTH -- Great posting truth!!!, 16:45:18 03/20/08 Thu
    • Re: TRUTH -- EX Walpole, 01:51:40 03/24/08 Mon
  • Re: TRUTH -- WTF!, 13:37:05 03/21/08 Fri
  • Re: TRUTH (NT) -- JUST A REMINDER................................., 20:23:09 03/22/08 Sat
  • Re: TRUTH -- bullfrog, 21:05:28 03/23/08 Sun
  • Re: TRUTH -- I care, 17:41:10 03/24/08 Mon
Subject: Abernathy is on page 3 of the Herald.


Author:
Hmmm
[Edit]
Date Posted: 06:50:13 03/24/08 Mon
WOW, what a bright guy huh. I'm sure the DOC is upset that I possted a name even though it's in the Herald
Subject: Where is our "leadership" ?


Author:
MCI-CJ screw
[Edit]
Date Posted: 18:43:19 03/21/08 Fri
Here is a question that will not be answered, but needs to be posed: Where was the E-Board on Wednesday night? This brutal attack occurred early afternoon. Some of us volunteered, and some of us were forced to stay and assist. While the Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Superintendent, Deputies, and DOS were busy eye fucking us, wouldnt it have been reassuring to see that perhaps Kenneway, Ferullo, Harris, Guarino, Ahearn, Nason, or Brouillette had some interest in what was going on? Those who were forced or volunteered were released around 830pm, and there was NO SIGN of our E-Board. I am sure that this will spur supporters of the E-Board to bash this post, and defend these guys. The bottom line is that our E-Board HAS to do SOMETHING! Two officers were SAVAGELY beaten. What have they done since then? Have we had enough of this yet? WE elected you seven men to represent our best interests. If this isnt reason enough to step in and do SOMETHING, then what is?

WHERE WAS THE E-BOARD??!!

WHY WERE THEY NOT THERE??!!
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Subject: OT AT WALPOLE


Author:
OT AT WALPOLE
[Edit]
Date Posted: 16:05:29 03/20/08 Thu
WHY CAN'T OFFICERS FROM OTHER INSTUTIONS WORK OT AT WALPOLE,THAT WOULD HELP WITH NOT GETTING FORCED THREE TIMES A WEEK.IT'S NOT THAT HARD TO DO , HAVE A STATE WIDE SIGN UP LIST.
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Subject: It must be open season on CO's again!


Author:
Concerned
[Edit]
Date Posted: 18:35:18 03/19/08 Wed
Well, here we go again, 2 more CO's sent out in ambulances after being jumped by inmates! I'm sure we'll be open for business again by lunch time. The sad part is that Big Ron knows that the right thing to do is to lock down for a few months so that the cons get the message that it's not okay to assault staff. Stop rec, visits, programs for a month or two and cons won't think it's no big deal to assault staff. What's the matter is the DOC afraid to loose another 20 bucks like after the last group of cons got from their lawsuit for "unfairly" being locked down? I'm sure that the staff at Walpole will take up a collection to cover it. Wake the fuck up, now I hear that when you come to Walpole you're trapped and not allowed transfers. Rumor has it that only a small amount of CO's will be allowed to leave when the next academy class graduates, no matter how far we have to drive to this hopeless sewer. What's going to happen with the Sargents' transfer list? 100 or more Sargents and how many transfers allowed? MCOFU do something to open the lists and treat everyone in the Union fairly, no matter where you work. I thought seniority was everything in our Union? Trapped in a shithole, getting assaulted and being forced to stay, with no back-up from the Admin. More suspensions, more discipline and very little hope! Our only hope will be that these scumbags that assault staff will be prosecuted and sent out of state to serve their time, so that they will actually do hard time!
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Subject: Re: Violence Pay Win - Not MCOFU's


Author:
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Date Posted: 10:22:42 03/21/08 Fri
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Subject: LT. "Bobby" should be a big help to you guys.


Author:
No time in and all of it frozen. Good luck.
[Edit]
Date Posted: 05:46:53 03/21/08 Fri
Subject: NEW JACK'S TRAINING


Author:
NEW OFFICER TRAINING
[Edit]
Date Posted: 16:18:26 03/20/08 Thu
ALL NEW OFFICERS SHOULD SHADOW A GOOD SEASONED OFFICER FOR 1 MONTH. SAME DAYS OFF, SAME SHIFT.
Subject: whats up with flavin and dee??????


Author:
taunton p.d.
[Edit]
Date Posted: 20:48:20 03/13/08 Thu
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Subject: deferred comp info.


Author:
new guy
[Edit]
Date Posted: 22:05:02 03/18/08 Tue
does anyone have the web site or info into finding out what our balances are, since we are no longer with ING retirements? thanks..
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Subject: none


Author:
none
[Edit]
Date Posted: 02:37:37 03/13/08 Thu
Wrong last name. Don't talk if you don't know.
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  • Re: none -- Go @@@k yourself, 17:01:38 03/13/08 Thu
    • Re: none -- none, 09:00:36 03/17/08 Mon
Subject: Have you seen my baseball?


Author:
Wolf
[Edit]
Date Posted: 12:41:58 03/13/08 Thu
I opened my box of footwear and I got my new velcro sneakers. Thank god because I don't know how to tie my shoes. I'm on light duty, but every day after work I go to the gym and lift the whole gym. I would like for the Department to issue me shirt with velcro instead of buttons. I have to wake up my mommy to have her button my shirt before I go to work, but she makes me peanut butter and fluff sandwiches with the crust cut off for me :) Sometimes when she forgets I ask Cappie to make me a sandwich. He's really good at making peanut butter sandwiches.

I got to go now the short bus is here to take me to the gym. Oh, have you seen my baseball?
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Subject: SMLznmTdxo


Author:
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[Edit]
Date Posted: 20:44:24 03/13/08 Thu
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Subject: lol


Author:
jj
[Edit]
Date Posted: 14:12:40 03/13/08 Thu
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=6953968&ch=4226726&src=news
Subject: Cahills shake got nothing on this


Author:
OOOPPSS
[Edit]
Date Posted: 19:56:37 03/10/08 Mon
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8b177f60bb
Subject: OOPS


Author:
JJ
[Edit]
Date Posted: 08:54:38 03/10/08 Mon
Suppression lets ex-prisoner turn prison officer
5:00AM Monday March 10, 2008
By Sarah Harvey


A man with a significant criminal conviction has been employed as a prison officer at the Otago Corrections Facility since November last year after the conviction went undetected.

The Corrections Department declined to reveal details of the man's offending but it is understood it was violence-related.

The man is still employed at the prison. Acting facility manager Peter Henderson said all prospective employees received a Ministry of Justice criminal conviction check.

Corrections demanded an "extremely high level of personal integrity" from staff, he said.

Except for "very minor" offences, those with criminal convictions would not be employed. In this case, the conviction was not picked up because the man was given name suppression.

"We are working with the Ministry of Justice to see how this can be prevented."

Ministry finance and support services manager Philip Maitland said the ministry received about 200,000 requests for criminal records a year, most from prospective employers.


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Given that permanent suppression orders are relatively rare, a case like the present one would be "very unusual", Mr Maitland said.

The Corrections website explains the grounds for those not usually considered for employment: a custodial sentence; a conviction for drugs, dishonesty, violence or sexual-related offending; a conviction which included supervision (in the past 20 years); those with any offence in the past 10 years.

"We also check through the Ministry of Justice to see if an applicant has a criminal conviction as part of the standard recruitment process," the website says.

Mr Henderson said the department had reviewed sentencing notes and interviewed the officer concerned.

The officer's work had been of a very high standard and the man had not deliberately hidden his conviction.

Mr Henderson said he would not make any further comment on the man or the case "in the interests of natural justice".

National Party law and order spokesman Simon Power said any systems breakdown in Corrections reinforced "a view the public has" that the department could not carry out its basic functions without controversy.

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* They have committed any offence in the past 10 years.
* They have a continued history of minor offences.
Subject: POS Sosa


Author:
CO
[Edit]
Date Posted: 12:56:50 03/04/08 Tue
http://www.bostonnow.com/news/local/2008/03/03/strange-opening
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Subject: how rodrigues got on ips


Author:
walpole
[Edit]
Date Posted: 07:34:30 03/01/08 Sat
whats up matty old boy cats out of the bag , we knew you were to stupid to be on ips . but with your brother inlaw being the supper i guess anything goes
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Subject: STRESS


Author:
JJ
[Edit]
Date Posted: 10:47:55 03/03/08 Mon
A Nightmare World of Torture and Prison Guard Suicides: Confessions of a Gitmo Guard
By DEBBIE NATHAN

A psychiatrist who has treated former military personnel at Guantnamo prison camp is telling a story of prisoner torture and guard suicide there, recounted to him by a National Guardsman who worked at Guantnamo just after it opened.

Dr. John R. Smith, 75, is a Oklahoma City psychiatrist who has done worked at military posts during the past few years. He is also a consultant for the University of Oklahoma's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Services, and is affiliated with the Veteran's Affairs Administration Hospital in Oklahoma City. The court-appointed psychiatric examination of Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the Murrah Federal Building in 1995, was conducted by Smith. A few years ago, he became a contract physician, treating active duty members of the US military in need of psychotherapy.

Smith spoke on February 22, 2008, at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, held in Washington DC. His presentation dealt with the psychological impact on guards of working at Guantnamo . He focused on a chilling case history, of a patient he called "Mr. H."

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Smith described Mr. H as a blue-collar Latino in his 40s who had done routine service in the National Guard for years before being called up to Kuwait. Then, shortly after 9/11, he was diverted from Kuwait to Guantnamo . The detention camp had just opened. Mr. H was deployed there to work as a guard.

Untrained for the job, Mr. H was taken aback by the detainees. They threw feces and urine on him, said Smith, and tried to get him to sneak letters out, telling him that if he didn't, "they would see to it that his family suffered the consequences." The prisoners also mocked Mr. H, that his being in the military made him "a traitor" to Latinos and other minorities. Mr. H was confused and terrified.

Meanwhile, according to Smith, "this good Catholic man with a family who had pretty much always followed the rules" was called on to participate in torture. One of his jobs was "to take detainees to certain places and see that they were handcuffed in difficult positions, usually naked, in anticipation of interrogation." Mr. H often watched the questioning. He saw prisoners pushed until they fell down, then cut. They responded to the torture with "defecation, vomiting, urinating," and "psychotic reactions: bizarre screaming and crying."

Smith noted that Mr. H said he was "required to handcuff and push to the ground detainees who were naked." The prisoners were also made to "remain on sharp stones on their knees." Detainees, Mr. H told Smith, would try to avoid interrogation by rubbing their knees until they bled in order be taken to the prison hospital.

According to Smith, Mr. H's comment about these events "was poignant and simple: 'It was wrong what we did.'" While still at Guantnamo , he responded to being a participant in torture "with guilt, crying and tears. But of course it was forbidden to talk with anyone about what he was experiencing." He "became more and more depressed." Apparently, so did other military personnel. Smith said Mr. H told him that in the first month he was at Guantnamo , two guards committed suicide.

Smith said that by the time he saw Mr. H, he "had become very ill. He was suicidal, terribly depressed, anxious," and "riddled with insomnia and horrible dreams and flashbacks." He had already seen two military therapists and not improved. But those therapists "were active duty and he didn't dare tell them" what had happened at Guantnamo . Smith was not active duty, and after two or three sessions Mr. H opened up. With medication and psychotherapy, he became less suicidal but was still too sick to do any more military service.

Three years later after treating Mr. H, Smith got three new patients who were guards at Guantnamo on later tours. They said conditions were much improved --"they loved it at Guantnamo and went swimming in the Caribbean." Still, one guard was having problems directly related to his work there. He "described having to cut down a detainee" who tried to hang himself after chewing through an artery in his own arm. There was blood everywhere. When the guard left Guantnamo , he was suffering from "anxiety attacks, panic attacks."

Smith said his presentation at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences meeting was the first time he'd ever spoken publicly about his Guantnamo patients. He decided to talk, he said, because he is concerned that veterans are generally ineligible for PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) disability benefits if the condition is not caused by combat. He considers the guards of Guantnamo "an overlooked group of victims." But in making that case, Smith stepped into a unique role. Heretofore, almost all accounts of torture at Guantnamo have come from non-governmental human rights groups or detainees and their defense lawyers. The FBI accounts in 2004 were contradictory. Smith, a prestigious physician, relayed accounts from inside the military.
Subject: Who is running for steward ?


Author:
CJ
[Edit]
Date Posted: 17:06:32 02/27/08 Wed
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Subject: Suspected serial killer dies in prison


Author:
CO 1
[Edit]
Date Posted: 15:54:42 02/27/08 Wed
Suspected serial killer dies in prison
By Laurel J. Sweet
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - Updated 12m ago
+ Recent Articles + Email + Bio
Award-winning court and crime reporter Laurel J. Sweet has been featured in the ABC miniseries "Boston 24/7" and the 9-11 documentary motion picture "Looking For My Brother."
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Leonard The Quahog Paradiso, long suspected of killing Harvard graduate student Joan Webster in 1981, has died in prison, according to sources and the state Department of Correction.

The Herald is awaiting further details of his death, but sources said today The Quahog clammed up for good at 9:35 a.m. at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Boston, apparently with no indication of foul play. A corrections official told the Herald it was "an anticipated death." Sources said Paradiso had been stricken with testicular cancer. He was 65.

The reticent Revere fisherman, his crimes and never-proven connection to Webster, 25, is the subject of a book released just last week by Needham defense attorney Timothy Burke titled, The Paradiso Files: Bostons Unknown Serial Killer.

Hes taken a lot of secrets to his grave, Burke told the Herald. I had no expectation that he would ever admit to (Websters murder). He was in complete denial from the beginning.

It was Burke who, as a Suffolk County homicide prosecutor, put Paradiso away for life for the 1979 murder and sexual assault of Marie Iannuzzi, 20, whose remains surfaced in a Saugus marsh.

In The Paradiso Files, Burke, who Paradiso would not agree to interview with, alleges The Quahog may have got away with murder several times over.

Websters remains were unearthed in Hamilton in 1990. In an interview with the Herald earlier this month, Websters mother Terry praised Burke, saying his book will keep our daughter alive in the minds of people.

The Paradiso Files: Excerpts:
+ Hubs silent serial killer
+ The Mala Femmena is found
+ Websters final moments
- lsweet@bostonherald.com
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Leonard Paradiso - circa 1981 with his boat, Mala Femmena, was convicted of murdering and sexually assaulting an East Boston woman named Marie Iannuzzi, 20 years-old, in 1979. Related Links

By Laurel J. Sweet
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - Updated 12m ago
+ Recent Articles + Email + Bio
Award-winning court and crime reporter Laurel J. Sweet has been featured in the ABC miniseries "Boston 24/7" and the 9-11 documentary motion picture "Looking For My Brother."
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Leonard The Quahog Paradiso, long suspected of killing Harvard graduate student Joan Webster in 1981, has died in prison, according to sources and the state Department of Correction.

The Herald is awaiting further details of his death, but sources said today The Quahog clammed up for good at 9:35 a.m. at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Boston, apparently with no indication of foul play. A corrections official told the Herald it was "an anticipated death." Sources said Paradiso had been stricken with testicular cancer. He was 65.

The reticent Revere fisherman, his crimes and never-proven connection to Webster, 25, is the subject of a book released just last week by Needham defense attorney Timothy Burke titled, The Paradiso Files: Bostons Unknown Serial Killer.

Hes taken a lot of secrets to his grave, Burke told the Herald. I had no expectation that he would ever admit to (Websters murder). He was in complete denial from the beginning.

It was Burke who, as a Suffolk County homicide prosecutor, put Paradiso away for life for the 1979 murder and sexual assault of Marie Iannuzzi, 20, whose remains surfaced in a Saugus marsh.

In The Paradiso Files, Burke, who Paradiso would not agree to interview with, alleges The Quahog may have got away with murder several times over.

Websters remains were unearthed in Hamilton in 1990. In an interview with the Herald earlier this month, Websters mother Terry praised Burke, saying his book will keep our daughter alive in the minds of people.

The Paradiso Files: Excerpts:
+ Hubs silent serial killer
+ The Mala Femmena is found
+ Websters final moments
- lsweet@bostonherald.com
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Next Article in Local Coverage:
Reward offered in college death threats case

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Leonard Paradiso - circa 1981 with his boat, Mala Femmena, was convicted of murdering and sexually assaulting an East Boston woman named Marie Iannuzzi, 20 years-old, in 1979. Related Links
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Subject: ji


Author:
jj
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Date Posted: 13:48:41 02/27/08 Wed
New prison special treatment units
Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 3:03 pm
Press Release: New Zealand Government


Hon Phil Goff
Minister of Corrections


27 February 2008
Media statement

New prison special treatment units and community-based programme the latest Government initiatives to reduce re-offending

Corrections Minister Phil Goff today opened a new special treatment unit for high- risk offenders at Waikeria Prison and announced a new community based programme, both aimed at tackling the cause of serious offending.

The Special Treatment Unit offers a new programme which will ensure high risk and violent offenders who abuse alcohol and drugs and who have a high probability of re-offending receive treatment before they are released from prison, Mr Goff said.

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This initiative is the latest in a series of developments over the past two years focused on providing new and improved rehabilitation programmes for offenders to reduce the level of re-offending.

The specially designed programme for high-risk offenders, has been trialled at the prison since August 2007. Two further special treatment units are to be opened at Spring Hill and Christchurch prisons over the next 12-18 months.

The reason for this programme firstly is to protect the community from re-offending by inmates and to reduce the risk of further people becoming victims. Secondly, it is a bonus for the community if we can stop the cost and wasted lives of inmates for whom prison is a revolving door, Mr Goff said.

The cognitive-behavioural programme is based on international research which shows what works best for these offenders is higher intensity treatment particularly in a special treatment unit setting.

The programme, which involves 100 three-hour group sessions, forces prisoners to look at the causes and consequences of their own offending.

It challenges them to question the way they think, to tackle their substance abuse and to address the way they manage their behaviour and relationships. Offenders on the programme live separately from the main prison population.

The new units will provide treatment for 120 prisoners a year. They add to the highly successful Kia Marama and Te Piriti units for sex offenders, the specialist violence prevention unit at Rimutaka Prison, and Rimutakas reintegration unit which was opened last year.

Mr Goff also announced a new programme for offenders in the community called First Steps, in partnership with the Ministry of Health.

The programme involves specialist teams in the Auckland region working alongside DHB professionals to provide intervention for drug or alcohol-affected offenders in the community and those about to be released from prison, Mr Goff said.

Continuity of treatment is important for prisoners on their release. Those who have sought treatment for drug and alcohol abuse while in prison need continuing access to treatment once they are released, when the prospect of relapse is much higher, Mr Goff said.

The programme will be rolled out nationally over time.
Subject: lost turkey sandwich


Author:
basketball jones
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Date Posted: 21:41:26 02/08/08 Fri
does anybody have any info about my turkey sandwich that was stolen from my lunch bag?i left my bag out on the table when i went to punch in and much to my suprise when i sat down to eat in the chow hall i discovered my sandwich was gone.i know we have alot of very overweight people working here but this theft of my sandwich has left me in a deep sorrow that i can't seem to break out of if you know of anybody who might have been a part of this crime please let me know so i can start the healing process.thank you for your support on this matter
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Subject: here we go


Author:
more screw ups on the street
[Edit]
Date Posted: 12:11:37 02/08/08 Fri
Jail Cell Doors Swing Open Across Massachusetts
Prison Overcrowding Crisis Prompts Early Criminal Releases
Reporting
Joe Shortsleeve BOSTON (WBZ) Hundreds of convicted criminals have been released in recent months as overcrowding in Massachusetts prisons reaches critical levels.

As the courts step in to deal with the problem by letting criminals go free, sheriffs and local police demand something be done before someone gets hurt.

Worcester County Sheriff Guy Glodis said politicians on Beacon Hill are not listening, and the alarm bells are blaring.

"So if you are dealing drugs, you are thinking maybe, I won't have to do the time," Glodis said.

"It is only a matter of time before some jails across the Commonwealth are forced to release an inmate early who should not be released, that goes and commits a dangerous and heinous crime," Glodis said.

In Worcester County over the past 90 days, Glodis has been forced by the federal courts to release some 300 inmates.

Why are the federal courts ordering the prisoner releases?

They say the conditions are inhumane. At one point, there were 1,500 inmates in a facility built for half that number, so the alternative is to let them out early.

"The message is you can commit the crime and not do the time, and that presents a problem for local police departments," said Worcester's police chief Gary Gemme.

Since inmates started walking out of jail in October, Gemme says crime has spiked.

Break-ins in the Vernon Street neighborhood have soared some 200 percent. In the Main Street neighborhood they've shot up 100 percent, and on Greenwood Street they're up 50 percent.

Even miles away in quiet neighboring Spencer, recently released inmates are being re-arrested by local police.

"From the standpoint of a local police chief, I pretty much feel like my hands are tied," said Spencer police chief David Darrin.

Around the state it's the same story. At the Middlesex County Jail in Cambridge, overcrowding is so bad that inmates now sleep in the work out room.

Extra bunk beds line the hallways, and the chapel is being dismantled to make way for more prisoners.

The Patrick Administration is vowing to spend $450 million over the next five years to avert a crisis. They admit the problem is huge.

"In Framingham, for example, in the women's facility we have a facility where women are awaiting trial is 300 percent over crowded, so this a real challenge across the state," said Lt. Gov. Tim Murray.

It's something Chief Gemme lives with and worries about everyday.

"Some of these people are dangerous individuals," he said.

That's the scary part, police say. Some of these people are dangerous. To be clear, this is not a new problem but has been simmering for decades.

While the Patrick administration has a long range plan to address overcrowding, the short term picture is not promising.

The fact is, going to jail has gotten a lot harder and the bad news is the criminals know it.

Police said judges are lowering bail on people who have been arrested because they know there is no place to put them. The Worcester police chief said recently that a car full of armed individuals were arrested and all released on relatively low bails the next day.
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Subject: "EDDIE MACK" FOR UNION STEWART


Author:
PCX1100
[Edit]
Date Posted: 18:20:23 02/06/08 Wed
EDDIE MACK FOR UNION STEWART????????
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Subject: Black eye


Author:
Concerned
[Edit]
Date Posted: 10:27:23 02/18/08 Mon
Hey LT,
How can you be a leader of men when you walk around with a black eye?
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Subject: riot


Author:
JJ
[Edit]
Date Posted: 12:21:54 02/24/08 Sun
17 inmates sent to hospitals after riot at Adelanto prison



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10:00 PM PST on Saturday, February 23, 2008

By MARK MUCKENFUSS
The Press-Enterprise

A prison riot Saturday sent 17 inmates of the Desert View Corrections facility in Adelanto to area hospitals.

Tim Franke, a spokesman for the San Bernardino County Fire Department, said the agency responded to a call at 4 p.m.

Over the course of the evening, Franke said, 16 more inmates with undetermined injuries were transported to hospitals in the Victorville and San Bernardino areas.

Rick McClintock is the battalion chief at the county's Adelanto fire station. The station, McClintock said, is next door to the prison.

McClintock said three engine companies responded, and 10 fire personnel were involved.

Two inmates were treated on scene. The most seriously injured inmate was airlifted to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton. The extent of his injuries and his identity were not released.

Firefighters left the prison shortly after 10 p.m.

Nathanial Peinado, a spokesman for American Medical Response in Rancho Cucamonga, said the company sent seven ambulances to the prison.

People answering the phone at Desert View Corrections, a privately run prison, said they had no comment.
Subject: RALPH IN THE SHOP'S


Author:
PAT IN THE BUM
[Edit]
Date Posted: 22:20:10 11/22/07 Thu
HEY WHAT IS UP WITH THIS GUY RALPH??THIS GUY HAS CALLED ME ON THE PHONE(LIKE HE KNOWS ME.) TO TELL ME HE WANTED TO HAVE ME BID ON THE ROVING PATROL JOB. HE CALLED ANOTHER GUY{TOWER 6} AND TOLD HIM THAT THE JOB IS NOT FOR HIM? HE ASKED THE MAIL ROOM OFFICER CAHILL TO BID ON IT. CUZ HE DON'T WANT SHEEHAN TO BID ON IT WHAT IS UP WITH THIS GUY?????
I THINK SHEEHAN SHOULD TAKE THE JOB.HE HAS BEEN AT WALPOLE FOR 20 YEARS AND HAS DONE HIS JOB AT WALPOLE.HE HAS HAD A UNIT FOR YEARS AND HAS DONE A GOOD JOB.
AS I SEE IT RALPH HAS ONLY 10 YEARS OF ON DUTY SERVICE AT WALPOLE AND SHEEHAN HAS 20 YEARS OF SERVICE

AT WALPOLE.
WHO THE HELL HE THINK HE IS?
HEY MIKE HE TALKED ALOT OF SHIT THE OTHER DAY IN THE STAFF CHOW HALL BUT YOU HELD YOUR OWN. YOU SOULD GO FOR IT.
HEY HE EVER TELL YOU THAT HE KNOWS JOE PONT
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Subject: prison humor


Author:
jokes R us
[Edit]
Date Posted: 06:45:38 02/23/08 Sat

An escaped convict broke into a house and tied up a young couple who had been sleeping in the bedroom. As soon as he had a chance, the husband turned to his voluptuous young wife, bound up on the bed in a skimpy nightgown, and whispered, "Honey, this guy hasn't seen a woman in years. Just cooperate with anything he wants. If he wants to have sex with you, just go along with it and pretend you like it. Our lives depend on it!"

"Dear," the wife hissed, spitting out her gag, "I'm so relieved you feel that way because he just told me he thinks you have a nice tight butt!"
Subject: How is Shnurppy doing


Author:
Observer
[Edit]
Date Posted: 12:48:35 02/17/08 Sun
How is Chuck Snurpy doing?? Has he endangered anyones life with a bad decision yet??
Subject: now thats funny


Author:
tax dollars at work
[Edit]
Date Posted: 18:56:02 02/16/08 Sat
Driver abandons bus with Huntsville parolees

09:55 PM CST on Thursday, February 14, 2008

Associated Press

CORSICANA - Police say the driver of a bus filled with about 40 former prison inmates abandoned the vehicle Thursday along a highway because her working hours for the day were over.

The passengers had been paroled or released from the state prison in Huntsville. Some wore ankle bracelet monitors.

They were aboard a Greyhound charter headed to a bus terminal in Dallas, but wound up 60 miles short.

"In 31 years in law enforcement I've never seen anything like this," Corsicana Police Sgt. Lamoin Lawhon told the Corsicana Daily Sun.

Police said the bus was chartered from Greyhound Bus Lines Inc. The driver pulled over in front of a convenience store around 4 p.m. and told the passengers her allotted driving time was up and another driver was on the way.

A clerk in the convenience store called police. Officers arrived to find the former prisoners milling around the bus.

Police said dispatchers exchanged several phone calls with Greyhound officials and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Austin.

Lawhon and two other officers stayed with the bus and the parolees. Just before 7 p.m., a second bus arrived with three drivers - including the one who had abandoned her passengers in the first place, Lawhon said.

Greyhound spokesman Dustin Clark declined to identify the driver who left the bus. He said company officials were investigating the incident.

"It is a very serious matter," he said.

Clark said drivers have to follow strict guidelines on consecutive working hours and rest periods.

Police said there were no incidents involving the passengers while they were stranded.

"Their behavior was exemplary," said Officer Travis Wallace.
Subject: now thats funny


Author:
tax dollars at work lol
[Edit]
Date Posted: 18:54:58 02/16/08 Sat

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