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Home / News / Local BREAKDOWN THE PRISON SUICIDE CRISIS

Guards, inmates a volatile dynamic
Bertell Porcher's son, Hakeem Obba, died at MCI-Cedar Junction. (JONATHAN WIGGS/GLOBE STAFF)

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It was written by Saltzman and Farragher.

On a damp Saturday last fall, Scott A. Flaherty collected a stack of papers and notebooks that chronicled his decade as a state correction officer and set them ablaze in a cemetery near his home in Randolph.

Flaherty had liked his first eight years at MCI-Cedar Junction in Walpole, but his last two had turned hellish. He hoped the graveyard bonfire would exorcise memories of his work behind the walls of the state's toughest prison.

Especially his memory of what happened there one night in late 2000.

Shortly before 10 that November night, a deeply disruptive inmate lay shackled to a concrete slab in a cramped cell. As Sergeant Flaherty stood watch, a captain and three other officers swept in, the captain grabbing, as he went by, a foam cup that Flaherty had been using to catch tobacco juice and sunflower seeds.

Flaherty said he watched as the captain tilted the cup over the mouth of the prisoner. Sickened, he turned away. But he could hear the parting admonition to the 33-year-old inmate, Hakeem Obba: If you don't behave, my officers will pour [excrement] down your throat.

"Because I can do anything I want to you," Captain Ronald R. Picard told Obba, according to a four-page complaint Flaherty filed with supervisors.

Two months later, Obba hanged himself with elastic from his underpants and bed sheets.

Flaherty, now an investigator for the State Police in Bristol County, said it would be wrong to draw a straight line from the alleged abuse of Obba - which Picard was punished for, but denies - to his suicide. But the larger point was hard to miss: Some correction officers, he said, are unfit to deal with the mentally ill or deeply troubled inmates who are increasingly their charge. The result is an incendiary dynamic between inmates and officers, a climate ripe for abuse.

"The inmate was restrained. He had no way to defend himself," said Flaherty, 37, one of two officers who reported the incident. "It would be akin to a police officer raping somebody. There's no gray area there."

The treatment of Obba - who was in four-point restraints for nearly 40 hours over four days - is one of the most flagrant of the cases examined by the Globe of abuse of inmates whom prison officials or prisoner advocates say had acute mental problems.

But it is hardly an isolated example. A Spotlight Team investigation into a recent surge in prison suicides and suicide attempts found other cases in which correction officers, with scant training in how to handle the burgeoning number of mentally ill in prison, brutalized, mistreated, or neglected inmates.Continued...

Indeed, as prisons increasingly become the asylum of last resort for the mentally ill - with the closure of state hospitals and the deinstitutionalization of their residents - desperation, frustration, and violence are rising on both sides of the cell door.

About 50 times a month, according to department statistics, members of its staff are assaulted by inmates. And, at the same time, the correction department has disciplined scores of officers for assault and other misconduct involving inmates.

As the number of inmate suicides has soared to roughly three times the national rate, prison officials say correction officers deserve credit for saving dozens of inmates who attempt suicide. Still, it is not hard to find cases where officers abused mentally ill prisoners.

In a 2004 episode at MCI-Cedar Junction, a correction officer twice punched a handcuffed inmate in the head as the prisoner lay face-down on the floor, giving him a bloody eye. The incident was captured on videotape, and the state fired the correction officer. But a civil service panel reduced the punishment to a 90-day suspension, in part because the prison superintendent was merely demoted for using excessive force in an unrelated incident. The prison system is appealing the reduced punishment in the courts.

In September 2006, prison officials sustained a complaint by an inmate that correction officers at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center locked him in a shower cell overnight in 2004 and shoved feces and urine into the stall with a mop. The prisoner -who suffers from panic disorder, depression, and possible bipolar disorder, according to medical records - has cut his own Achilles tendon and repeatedly swallowed razor blades, batteries, and push pins.

"I understand that when people do bad things, they have to go and pay for them," said Amelia Bargoot, the sister of the inmate, Eric R. Bargoot, a convicted bank robber. "But there's a difference between torture and rehabilitation."

Well-trained correction officers are crucial for recognizing suicidal inmates and preventing many deaths, according to Lindsay M. Hayes, a national specialist in prison suicide prevention hired by the state in 2000 to study Bridgewater State Hospital. Because many suicides take place at night and on weekends, when mental health clinicians have gone home, correction officers are the only ones who can intervene.

However, when Hayes returned to the prisons late last year for a follow-up study, he found that the state had ignored his recommendation to increase suicide-prevention training for new officers from two and a half to eight hours. Prison officials said they have since complied.

Still, the volcanic cellblock dynamic scares relatives and friends of prisoners.

"Between mental illness and the fact that these people have committed crimes, they're going to throw them away," said Kathleen Connolly, who worries that her boyfriend and father of her two children, mentally ill inmate John Nowell, will never make it out of Walpole alive.

"We'll take his dead body out of there," she said. "He's not going to make it. He does not belong in there. Either someone is going to kill him or he's going to kill himself."

The DDU

The place where Hakeem Obba died and where John Nowell now lives, sits at the extreme end of the gone-to-seed Walpole complex, just minutes and a world away from Gillette Stadium, the gleaming home of the New England Patriots.

It is a walled-off, cinder block bunker where inmates are locked up 23 hours a day. From a glass-paneled, high-tech silo at its inner core, correction officers monitor the inmates' every move on video screens. Prisoners can leave their cells for an hour of exercise in cages that are the human equivalent of small, fenced-in dog runs.

Prison officials call the bunker the Departmental Disciplinary Unit, or DDU for short.

The solitary confinement inmates who live there have a nickname for it, too: the hole.

Its 124 cells are reserved for "the worst of the worst," inmates who earn their spot in the system's most secure unit by assaulting correction officers or other inmates, or by committing other serious misconduct. It is a place, some officers say, where inmates feel they have nothing to lose by lashing out, because there is no place worse to go.

Correction officers who spoke to the Globe under the condition of anonymity, citing department rules that restrict their ability to speak to the media without permission, said a thick emotional callous is a virtual job prerequisite.

"It's a survival tool," one officer said. "That's exactly what it is."

But the officers did not hesitate to confirm what many maximum-security prisoners in solitary confinement told the Globe: Sometimes, in anger and frustration, they taunt inmates who threaten to kill themselves, telling them: "Hang it up!"

"You can't help it, it just comes out," said one Walpole officer who guards prisoners in an isolation block. His message to inmates he feels are using threats of suicide to gain leverage? "You know what? Do it!"

Or, said a Cedar Junction colleague assigned to a segregation unit where some of the toughest cases are confined, frustrated officers will respond to a threat of imminent suicide this way: "I'll be back in 10 minutes. Twenty maybe."

The officers, three 20-year veterans from a medium-security facility in Bridgewater and two relative rookies who work at MCI-Cedar Junction, said they are easy scapegoats when something goes wrong. They said they have become marginalized by mental health clinicians who no longer listen to what they have to say. They do stressful work that, they said, almost nobody wants.

"Morale has never been this low," one veteran officer said in an interview. "I've never seen guys despise coming to work. . . . They treat you like you're a guard at a mall."

A good night at Walpole, they said, is when everyone on the cellblock is breathing when they walk in, and everyone is breathing when they walk out.

Given the frustrations and dangers the correction officers confront, there is little reservoir of empathy for inmates who arrive with or descend into psychosis.

"We do have a lot of frequent fliers who swallow nails, spikes, glass," said Steve Kenneway, president of the 5,000-member Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union. "If you leave a light bulb laying around, they'll eat that, too. I mean they will just put everything in their system and then they'll tell you because it's their way of manipulating where they're going to be housed. There are definitely some inmates who are crazy, and they need help. They need treatment."

But treatment is not the responsibility of Kenneway's union members. They are trained to maintain safety and security.

"Let's think about why the person's sitting in the cell for 23 hours a day locked down," he said. "Because he murdered somebody. Stabbed an officer. Did something so egregious inside the prison system that now he has to be locked away even from the inmate population. So I'm never going to sympathize with the inmate. That's not my job."

Lack of sympathy is one thing. Urging self-destruction is something else.

Prison officials said such conduct is not tolerated and would be met with swift discipline if substantiated. Staff members have been suspended for making "derogatory comments" to inmates, they said. But the department could not supply an instance in which action was taken against an officer for encouraging an inmate's suicide or expressing glee after a hanging.

Correction officials say they do want to know who posted a jubilant message on a website used by MCI-Cedar Junction officers after a former inmate was found dead of a drug overdose shortly after he left prison earlier this year.

"Released last Thursday and found dead in Somerville Saturday. Hooray!" the Aug. 14 anonymous message read.

Prison management has disciplined staff for a wide array of other offenses.

From January 2003 to June 2007, the prison system's Office of Investigative Services investigated 1,126 allegations of serious misconduct by employees, some of which remain open cases, department statistics show.

Most of the cases involved correction officers. The alleged offenses ranged from 73 assaults - on inmates, employees, and civilians - to 98 cases of sexual misconduct with inmates, female and male.

Prison investigators sustained 312 allegations, more than a quarter of the 1,126. Because of the gravity of the offenses, the vast majority of those cases then went to hearings before the commissioner, who has the authority to issue significant punishments, ranging from an unpaid suspension of more than a week to termination.

The prison system ultimately fired 112 correction officers from January 2003 to June 2007, according to department statistics. But correction officers often appeal firings to the state Civil Service Commission or arbitrators - and some win back their jobs.

Sometimes correction officers have been found to be neglectful rather than abusive.

In 2005, for example, prison investigators found that correction officers failed to make required checks on three inmates who killed themselves at prisons in Walpole, Concord, and Shirley. Two of the inmates were severely mentally ill, and the third was undergoing withdrawal from a heroin addiction.

In two of the deaths, officers said they had made required checks but were contradicted by prison videotapes.

One of the suicides was that of Andrew Armstrong, who was serving 15 years for assault with intent to murder after a home invasion, and who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He had made two previous suicide attempts and was discharged from Bridgewater State Hospital four days before his death.

Before he hanged himself, he used a bar of soap to scrawl a message near the stainless steel mirror in his cell.

"Dust in the wind," it read.

'I'm not an animal'

No episode more starkly illustrates the toxic relationship between seriously troubled inmates and correction officers than the encounter between Obba and Picard.

And none more boldly underscores what can happen when the officers' cellblock code of solidarity is violated than what happened later between Picard and Flaherty.

Obba was one of the most disruptive prisoners at Cedar Junction, records show. He urinated on the floor. He spread feces on his walls. He was cited 210 times for misconduct in the hole.

But he never received a thorough mental health evaluation in prison, a psychiatrist retained by his family to advise them on a wrongful death suit said. He said Obba's behavior was so extreme it should have raised red flags for prison mental health staff.

Once, when a correction officer was passing out coffee to inmates in solitary confinement, Obba reached through the grill of his cell and stabbed him in the neck.

"There, deal with that, mother [expletive]," he said, according to department records. For that attack, he received 13 to 15 years on top of his sentence, three to five years for breaking and entering.

On Nov. 12, 2000, after officers said they saw Obba smear the door and window of his cell with feces, they received permission to shackle his wrists and ankles until he agreed to stop his disruptive behavior.

"This is cruel," he said in comments captured on videotape provided to the Globe by the correction officers' union. "This shouldn't be for a dog. . . . I'm a human being. . . . I'm not an animal."

Flaherty came on duty at 3 p.m. on Nov. 14 and volunteered to relieve an officer who had Obba on an "eyeball watch." Flaherty said his job was to monitor Obba through the window of his cell and to note his condition in a log every 15 minutes.

Flaherty, a Randolph native, had joined the department in 1992 at the age of 21. Like many correction officers, he hoped to use the job as a stepping-stone to a career as a police officer. But he said he ended up enjoying the rigors of the work - it required a combination of firmness, common sense, and fairness - and the camaraderie with other officers.

His view of correction, he said, was influenced by his granduncle, George F. McGrath, who was former governor John A. Volpe's correction commissioner in the early 1960s.

"He believed that inmates are going to get out some day, and you've got to give them programs to prepare them for when they get out," Flaherty said. "He was progressive, and I wanted to be like that."

Instead, what Flaherty found at Walpole, he said, was a bureaucracy that crushed idealism and muzzled dissent. Officers who cozied up to top prison officials enjoyed choice job assignments and got away with abusing inmates and staff, he said. Those without influential benefactors struggled for years to get off the night shift.

"We used to call it the Department of Corruption and Favoritism," he said.

Picard joined the Department of Correction in 1987 after working about a year as a part-time Bellingham police officer. He was ultimately promoted to captain, a job in which he oversaw about 20 officers.

Around 9:50 p.m., the captain and three other officers entered the observation ward, according to the incident report Flaherty filed. As the three underlings surrounded the inmate, Flaherty said, Picard tipped the cup of spit over Obba's mouth.

"It actually sickened me," Flaherty recalled in a sworn deposition he gave in April in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Obba's family. "I turned away. I couldn't look."

The four officers left the cell, and Picard handed the cup back to Flaherty. One of the officers bragged, "You could hear [Obba's] jaws clenching," Flaherty wrote in his complaint to supervisors.

After Picard and his coterie were gone, Obba shouted to Flaherty, "Tell the Captain if he pours [expletive] in my mouth, I'll kill him and his family," Flaherty recalled in his complaint. He could have disciplined Obba for the threat but opted not to. "I probably would have said the same thing," he said in his deposition.

Flaherty said he agonized about whether to report the alleged abuse.

He had filed a complaint about Picard only four months earlier because the captain accused him of faking an illness when it turned out that Flaherty had a fever of 103 and strep throat, he said. Picard retaliated by giving him lousy assignments, leading scores of shackled inmates to showers and mopping the hallways, Flaherty said.

Flaherty got so uneasy that he began carrying a small notebook to record any problems with Picard and his allies.

But Flaherty said he felt he had no choice but to report the treatment of Obba.

"Picard was just sadistic," Flaherty said in an interview. "He thought this was the way to rule. Sometimes you have to use force in the prison. It's just the dynamics. But the way I was schooled, once you're in restraints, it's over."

In response to Flaherty's complaint, prison officials began an internal investigation. Picard and two officers who accompanied him into the cell, Lieutenant Edward Marvelle and Sergeant Edward Mack, denied that anyone threatened Obba or poured anything on him. Marvelle told the investigator that Flaherty had been overheard in the past saying he was out to get Picard, according to the investigator's report.

But another officer, James E. McParlin Jr., who was assigned to the control room and said he could see Obba through the window, backed Flaherty's account. He said in his own incident report that he saw Picard extend his arm and tilt a foam cup over Obba's head.

"What happened that day was totally wrong," McParlin told the Globe. "You're in four-point restraints. You can't do anything. That's torture."

The department, citing internal records, said Obba confirmed Picard's threat but told investigators the cup's contents did not enter his mouth.

Before the Department of Correction completed its internal investigation, Obba hanged himself in his cell on the observation ward in the DDU.

Not long afterward, the inquiry into the alleged abuse concluded that Picard had threatened Obba and interfered with the investigation, and that Marvelle and Mack had also interfered, according to prison records. Picard was suspended for three days without pay. His two subordinates got one-day suspensions.

Picard said recently that all he did with Obba was ask whether he intended to stop misbehaving if unshackled. When Obba said he would not, Picard said he and the other officers left the room. He said he does not recall having a cup in his hand, but if he did, it probably contained coffee.

He said he never threatened Obba.

"I think it's tragic that any man would take his own life," Picard said. But, he said, "There was no physical force used against him whatsoever."

Flaherty said that after he filed his complaint, his job grew miserable.

A captain who liked Flaherty told him in the parking lot to watch his back because allies of Picard were out to get him. Flaherty said he found himself assigned to places in the prison where cameras were always trained on him, as if to try to catch him doing something wrong. There were whispers that other officers planned to jump him and wrest away his little notebook.

He left the department in March 2002 to join the State Police.

Three months later, Picard was in trouble again. This time, he was fired after the department concluded he used excessive force on another inmate with a history of suicide attempts and engineered what it described as his second cover-up.

Correction officials referred the allegations of Obba's abuse to Norfolk District Attorney William Keating, but no charges were brought.

And last fall, in the cemetery in Randolph, State Trooper Flaherty watched as the fire devoured his notes on his final harrowing days as a correction officer.

A dangerous spiral

Just hours after Miguel Velasquez, a 33-year-old prisoner from Lawrence, hanged himself in late July in his segregation cell at MCI-Cedar Junction, DDU inmate James J. Burns II - in chains and handcuffs - was led by two correction officers into a nearby visiting room.

Burns, freckle-faced and missing four upper teeth, wore a tan jumpsuit with "DOC" stenciled across the back. Because the unit's air conditioning had failed amid a summer swelter, sweat dripped from his brow. And he had no time for small talk.

"Did you hear there was another suicide yesterday?" Burns urgently asked a reporter as soon as he picked up the telephone receiver for an interview from behind a thick panel of glass. "Everybody's all on edge because they don't feel like anybody's listening to them."

Burns, 28, himself was clearly on edge, and had been for some time.

For nearly two decades, specialists have been calling for alternatives to extended periods of solitary confinement for inmates like Burns whose psychosis only worsens behind the steel doors of their closet-size cells. But little happened.

Without the option of sending inmates like Burns to a high-security unit designed for those needing treatment, mentally disturbed prisoners languish in places like the DDU, where a dangerous spiral often takes hold.

"I don't think they understand what this place is doing to me," Burns said. "It's made me more of a sociopath. I'm just so angry. I'm ready to flip out now."

In fact, he already had.

He sliced his wrists in 2004. A year later, he tightened a noose around his neck. By early 2006, after prison clinicians weaned him off the Ritalin medication they said he no longer needed, he grew abusive toward staff. In one instance, he threatened a psychiatrist with bodily harm; in another he hurled racial epithets, prison records show.

Like many troubled inmates sent to prison segregation units, Burns carried with him a lifetime of abuse and addiction, neglect and violence that, in some ways, made his consignment to solitary confinement seem nearly inevitable.

"We get the people that are broken," said James R. Bender, deputy correction commissioner.

Today Burns, sentenced to prison for assault with intent to murder after he stabbed and badly injured a patron in a Bourne barroom in the summer of 2001, is considered too dangerous for the general prison population.

A lifetime ago, his medical records show, he was a fragile boy who once told a psychiatrist he intended to jump in front of a car on this 11th birthday to kill himself as his father watched.

"An angry, confused, sad, and lonely child," one psychologist concluded.

Still another clinician made a prediction: If young Jimmy did not get consistent supportive and individual therapy to address his feelings of anger and abandonment he would "likely be involved with the penal system."

Indeed, the state Department of Correction is now responsible for James Burns. It is, to say the least, a tumultuous relationship.

He filed formal complaints about being assaulted while handcuffed by a correction officer in his DDU cell in September 2006. He charged that the same officer, in retaliation, threatened to withhold mental health services because he reported the alleged attack.

"I don't care if you are swinging from a rope or bleeding to death you will die in that cell," Burns said the officer told him.

The correction department said it investigated Burns's allegations but could not sustain them.

"He usually goes by the rules," said Peter St. Amand, MCI-Cedar Junction's superintendent. "It's at the point that he gets self-injurious that he gets disruptive."

Burns has reached that point at least twice this year.

In May, after learning of his grandmother's death, he sliced his wrist and later reopened the wound, puncturing major blood vessels. "I was bleeding for a long time," he said. "I wanted to die."

During his transfer to Bridgewater State Hospital he "regurgitated a razor blade he had earlier swallowed and cut himself," a hospital report states. "After cutting himself with the regurgitated blade, he swallowed it again."

When they discharged him in June, Bridgewater clinicians concluded that Burns did not have the symptoms of a major mental illness and did not pose a significant risk of harm to himself or others.

Nonetheless, they worried about what would happen if he went back to the hole.

"If returned to the same situation in the DDU from whence he came, Mr. Burns will continue to pose a significant risk of harm to himself as a result of his apparent inability to adequately cope with the stresses he reports experiencing in that setting," the clinicians wrote in Burns's discharge papers.

"In my clinical opinion, staff may be able to reduce his risk of engaging in self-injurious behavior if he is able to be maintained in an environment . . . where he does not feel unsafe."

It is a clinician's roundabout way of describing secure segregated units for mentally ill inmates. But, despite repeated calls over many years, it is an option that still does not exist.

Kevin M. Burke, the state's public safety secretary, said there is no political constituency for reform even in the face of a suicide spike and a pending federal lawsuit that accuses the state of cruel and unusual punishment for locking up mentally troubled inmates 23 hours a day.

Earlier this year, his office secured about $1 million in state funding for new high-security treatment units. But Burke acknowledged that it would pay for token improvements, and that more is needed.

"It's a Band-Aid," Burke said.

So Burns went back to the DDU, where in July he told the Globe: "I'm really, really depressed. The only way they'll listen to me is if I cut up."

And a month later, he did just that.

On Aug. 31, prison officials filed court papers to return Burns to Bridgewater. They said he was suicidal. He had cut major arteries deep enough to require a blood transfusion, they said.

"He cannot cope with segregation and is [in] need of further evaluation at [Bridgewater State Hospital]," the commitment papers read.

In a telephone interview from Bridgewater in early November, Burns said his treatment there was helping. He was thinking clearly again. He was attending groups, doing chores, spending time in the hospital's art room.

Not everything is going well -- he said he is facing discipline again for alleged misconduct. But he is trying hard not to think about another trip to the hole.

"I can't do it anymore," said Burns, "My mind, my body. I can't do it. I'll flip my lid. The animal that's inside you comes out because of the way they treat you.

"If they send me back there, I'll kill myself. I'll try to, anyway."

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Prisoners doing bird found using birds
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A pigeon: can totally hook you up with some good stuff A sharp increase in drugs and cellphones found inside a Brazilian prison mystified officials - until guards spotted some distressed pigeons struggling to stay airborne.

Inmates at the prison in Marilia, Sao Paulo state had been training carrier pigeons to smuggle in goods using cell phone sized pouches on their backs, a low-tech but ingenious way of skipping the high-tech security that visitors faced.

'We have sophisticated equipment to search people when they go in, but they avoided this by finding another way to bring in cellphones and drugs,' prison director Luciano Gamateli told Globo TV.
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Date Posted: 16:08:21 07/27/08 Sun


A wife decides to take her husband to a strip club for his birthday. They arrive at the club and the doorman says, “Hey, Dave! How ya doin’?”

His wife is puzzled and asks if he’s been to this club before.

“Oh, no,” says Dave. “He’s on my bowling team.”

When they are seated, a waitress asks Dave if he’d like his usual and brings over a Budweiser.

His wife is becoming increasingly uncomfortable and says, “How did she know that you drink Budweiser?”

“She’s in the Ladies’ Bowling League, honey. We share lanes with them.”

A stripper then comes over to their table, throws her arms around Dave, and says “Hi Davey. Want your usual lap dance, big boy?”

Dave’s wife, now furious, grabs her purse and storms out of the club.

Dave follows and spots her getting into a cab. Before she can slam the door, he jumps in beside her. He tries desperately to explain how the stripper must have mistaken him for someone else, but his wife is having none of it. She is screaming at him at the top of her lungs, calling him every name in the book.
The cabby turns his head and says, “Looks like you picked up a real bitch tonight, Dave.”
Subject: Rezendes (11-7 CO)


Author:
Curious
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Date Posted: 21:07:56 07/26/08 Sat
What's up with Rezendes? He's banged in for the same 2 weeks in July for atleast 3 years. He can't win a summer vacation and says he's owed one. He makes no secret of it, therefore the note he brings in is a lie. It wouldn't be so bad if he didn't run his mouth about everyone else. He should be held accountable.
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Subject: WTF


Author:
WONDERING
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Date Posted: 17:14:04 07/20/08 Sun
KEN DID'NT BEAT THE CHARGES. HE WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY BUT THE HEARING CHAIRMAN ASSHOLE FOUND HIM GUILTY OF SOME BULLSHIT AND GAVE HIM A LETTER OF REPRIMAND. NOW BIG STEVE IS REMOVING HIM ANYWAY. WHAT A WONDERFUL UNION.
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Subject: Kenneways coward moves


Author:
Don Juan
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Date Posted: 08:00:31 07/23/08 Wed
The Executive assembly has been canceled and an emergency meeting for the CHIEF STEWARDS has been called! EVERYONE grow some balls and show up. Let's show up in numbers and take our Union back. The time is now, unless you want that bitch Mograss to be your V.P. You think the state is laughing at us now?
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Subject: Judicial Committee Overruled


Author:
Fly on the wall
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Date Posted: 11:10:38 07/21/08 Mon
There was a surprise meeting on Sunday and the E-board (not all were invited) decided to overrule the Judicial Committees ruling and terminated the VP. We have rules in place, but Steve, Hank, ED, and Rob decided that they do not have to follow "rules" or the Constitution and By-Laws. I think there needs to be a "full unbiased investigation" in to the every day runnings of this Dirty Dirty E-board.
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Subject: New rookie @ MCI Shirley


Author:
SuperFlySpyGuy
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Date Posted: 09:12:51 06/09/08 Mon
THIS IS ONE REASON TO HAVE A COMPUTER!!
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=143711154

Just click on this link and see why this kid gets hammered at work everyday. He likes to flex and kiss his muscles. Maybe you could use him at CJ.
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Subject: enough already


Author:
mini pimpin
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Date Posted: 14:50:50 07/19/08 Sat
what did solely do to be getting the bad end of the stick? is it cuz he went home sick last year or do they just have it out for him? he don't bother nobody. lot more a-holes around to fry.
Subject: Correction officer receives medal of valor


Author:
Stay Safe Guy's
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Date Posted: 23:04:33 07/01/08 Tue
Correction officer receives medal of valor
By Leeanne T. Stronach
Tue Jul 01, 2008, 12:36 PM EDT
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Holbrook -
Feb. 27, 2007 turned out to be anything but a routine day on the job for Correction Officer Kevin Sheehan of Holbrook.

Sheehan, 49, is a Norfolk County Sheriff’s Department correction officer in its transportation department. His job involves taking prisoners to and from correctional facilities or courthouses.

Before transporting now convicted rapist Che Sosa, Sheehan, who was accompanied by Capt. John Dunne, was forewarned that anything could happen so he should be prepared.

It was an incident that occurred at the Norfolk County Superior Courthouse involving Sosa that earned Sheehan and Dunne medals of valor from the state Department of Public Safety at the 11th annual Correction Officer of the Year awards ceremony.

During Sosa’s appearance before a judge as he stood side by side with his defense attorney, John Courtney, Sosa attacked Courtney with a plexi-glass weapon he had fashioned into a knife.

Sosa attacked his attorney’s face and attempted to get him in the neck with the approximately seven-inch makeshift knife, Sheehan said.

As the attack occurred, Sheehan’s and Dunne’s training took over.

Sheehan said he first thought that Sosa had just punched Courtney.

Sheehan utilized take down moves and defensive tactics that during his 17 years as a correction officer he’d been trained to use to wrestle Sosa to the ground with Dunne’s assistance.

The plexi-glass knife fell out of Sosa’s hand while he was being restrained.

Once Sosa was restrained and handcuffed, he was taken to the transport van and back to the Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Cedar Junction in Walpole.

“He would have stabbed other people or us if he’d had the chance,” Sheehan said of Sosa.

Sheehan described Sosa as a muscular man who knows mixed martial arts.

Sosa had made threats to his lawyer prior to the incident, according to Sheehan.

“We did the right thing and I’d do it again,” Sheehan said.
Sheehan has lived in Holbrook his entire life.
He attended Cardinal Spellman High School and graduated from Blue Hills Regional Technical School in 1977.

Sheehan is married to Kristen and they have a five-month-old boy named Aiden.

As a correction officer, Sheehan has been involved with other altercations over the years, but none of the magnitude of the Sosa incident, he said.

Sheehan isn’t the type to back down because of his training and upbringing, and it was just a reaction for him, when he heard Sosa yell out, to enter the fray.

“I react first and think about it afterward,” he said.
This was the first time Sheehan received a medal of valor.
“I was honored to get it,” he said.
The award presentation, followed by a luncheon, was held on June 23 in the House Chambers of the Massachusetts State House.

Sixteen officers from around the state, including Sheehan, were honored.

In attendance were Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray, Secretary of Public Safety Kevin Burke, Department of Correction Commissioner Harold Clarke, and Norfolk County Sheriff Michael Bellotti.

Murray and Bellotti presented Sheehan with his award.
“Officer Sheehan’s actions were truly heroic,” Bellotti said. “He rushed into a dangerous situation without regard for his own safety. He and his fellow officers deserve tremendous credit.”

Leeanne Stronach can be contacted at ltstronach@comcast.net.
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Subject: Concords finest


Author:
there ya go
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Date Posted: 16:10:26 06/30/08 Mon
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Concord prison officer arrested on drug charges

The Associated Press




LOWELL, Mass.— A Massachusetts corrections officer who sold eight pounds of marijuana worth $10,000 to an undercover state trooper has been arrested on drug charges.

Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone on Sunday said Robert Sweeney of Dracut was detained in Lowell on charges of possession and distribution of marijuana, ecstasy and steroids. He is also accused of conspiracy to violate the narcotics law.

Prosecutors do not allege the 48-year-old Sweeney engaged in criminal activity at the medium security Concord prison, where he worked. The facility offers medical treatment to prisoners, including substance abuse.

Investigators who searched Sweeney's home after he was arrested Saturday afternoon seized two pounds of marijuana, 100 bottles of steroids and six tablets of ecstasy.

Sweeney is being held on $20,000 cash bail and will be arraigned in Lowell District Court on Monday.
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Subject: NEWS FLASH /// HOT OF THE PRESS


Author:
Watcher
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Date Posted: 10:03:05 05/08/08 Thu
What is going on up at the Executive Board level? All six guys signing their names accussing one of their own of embezzlement (union funds used without authority).

What time do you want the FBI there Stevie, I can promise you that all union members is watching this closely.

Also, if a take over is necessary, I will be there, I am not about to let 20 years go down the drain because of you and your spending frenzies and wasted monies on personal gains, It has been alledged ===== new homes, cars, gambling money, mind altering substances, free sporting events, over inflated expense account, educational pay for elected officials without proper degrees, overtime money for no services rendered, shift diff how bogus, and now we hear the in house fighting about money being used for what.......?

EVERYONE ONE OF US IS ENTITLED TO A DETAILED REPORT AND COMPLETE EXPLANATION OF WHATS GOING ON. If you wish to continue to ask for our support then open the books now.

Members ask this question:

If you need more information just ask any elected steward to see the copy of the letter signed by Kenneway and the other 5 offcials sent out these past few days.(This is scary, to know our money isn't safe is a big time problem and we need to act now before it is to late).

I am calling for all members that ran for an elected position last March 2007 to reach out to one another and assemble a watchdog unit task with overseeing current spendings and also to conduct a full audit of past spendings. Remember, we are entitled to this and if we don't address it now it might be too late.

Let us not get fooled a third time around by the same old it don't concern me, or because some loyalist with personal gains writes a croc of bullshit on this board or better yet its just the union busting by eboard candidate losers, No, I say, if you truely want your union, then get behind the men and women that plan to hold all criminal matters accountable and help us take back what is our righfully so.


Stay tuned "Taking Back our Union"
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Subject: Cards are ready


Author:
Committee to take back our union
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Date Posted: 23:59:00 07/10/08 Thu
Ask the contact person at your facility to provide you a sign up card. These cards are available for all supervisors. The time is now for professional leadership to take back control of our union.
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Subject: does anybody know who runs these boards


Author:
curious
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Date Posted: 22:17:20 07/12/08 Sat
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Subject: U lika the juice


Author:
Klam Baker
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Date Posted: 09:29:29 07/12/08 Sat


CLAM JUICE COCKTAIL

2 cup clam juice or bouillon
1/3 cup ketchup
3 drops Tabasco (or to taste)
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon powdered sugar
celery salt, to taste
vodka
Subject: Big shake up coming soon!!


Author:
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Date Posted: 17:14:36 07/07/08 Mon
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Subject: bDQYloraAtkdFt


Author:
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Date Posted: 22:33:48 07/02/08 Wed
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Subject: KB


Author:
Shirley (scratching my head...)
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Date Posted: 20:49:39 06/25/08 Wed
What is the deal with this Kid? I thought he was on an IA but heard he was really suspended.. Does anyone know if he is OK?
Subject: How sweet it is


Author:
Satch
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Date Posted: 17:52:25 06/25/08 Wed
The celebration started early. It's been a long wait, so this one's going to go on for awhile. So raise your glasses and salute your men in Green.

Here's to Rajon Rondo, who played one of the best defensive games I've ever seen from a point guard in Game 6, who never let his confidence in his offense waver, even when it seemed foolish to even think about shooting. For fighting through an ankle injury to be the most active guy on the court when it was needed. For exceeding even the lofty expectations all year.

To Ray Allen, who overcame so much … an up-and-down season that included a scoreless game, a horrible start to the postseason where he couldn't hit an open 10-footer, numerous personal issues involving his mother and stepfather and more recently his son … and finishing it off with a Finals MVP runner-up performance punctuated by an NBA-tying record 7 three-pointers in the clincher. An amazing story even Steven Spielberg would be proud of.

To Paul Pierce, who has long been an NBA superstar before anyone gave him credit for it, who put up incredible performance after incredible performance on bad teams and only got noticed when he didn't come through or did something stupid. Getting the Finals MVP over The Best Player in the Universe (trademark, ABC) was an fitting punctuation on a fantastic ascension to the NBA elite.

To KG, who stepped up in the final game of the season to put any doubts to rest about his ability to come through in the clutch. The Dream Shake, the defense, the nothing-but-net 18-footers, the incalculable insanity on the court that intimidated opponents and infected teammates. It's been said before, but it can't be understated: he changed the culture of this team. Somewhere, A-Rod sits alone, weeping.

To Perk, who put up with a lot of doubters all year -- and his whole career for that matter -- to become an irreplaceable defensive force, always making the right decision on help defense and guarding the rim like his life depended on it. His transformation from borderline NBA starting center to an anchor on the best defensive team this league has seen in years was remarkable. And when he was needed most, dealing with what had to be a painful injury, he sucked it up and brought the same intensity to Game 6 to help the C's set the tone for a blowout close-out win.

To James Posey, who brought so many things to this team that you can't count on a stat sheet, For pretty much making the stat sheet irrelevant, even when he was stuffing it with three-pointers.

To Leon Powe, possibly the nicest guy ing the NBA, for working hard to be ready when his number was called, even after losing minutes to Brian Scalabrine and Glen Davis early in the season. For his great screens and even greater rolls. For his incredible Game 2 effort, without which the Celtics may not be celebrating right now.

To Eddie House, for doing much of the same as Leon… staying ready and coming through when called upon. For having the quickest release in the NBA, and for the cold-blooded threes he can rain in a heartbeat. For his much-improved defense through the season and playoffs. For his hilarious son on the sidelines.

To Big Baby, for throwing his bulk around on ballerina's feet, all while keeping his intensity as heavy as his girth and his personality as light as his toes. For letting the crowd know it's the fourth quarter and it's time to STAND UP!! For helping foster intense competition in practice for the back-up power forward minutes.

To Scal, for enduring years of booing and taunting -- to getting his name chanted in the NBA Finals, even while dressed in a suit. For waving a mean towel.

To P.J. Brown, for hitting maybe the biggest shot of the playoffs versus Cleveland, for picking up the slack in the middle whenever needed, for not backing down from any opponent big or small, for not being afraid to throw a forearm shiver when needed.

To Tony Allen, who had the toughest time returning from his knee injury -- who always seemed to almost be on the brink of breaking out of the mental slump -- for play meaningful minutes in a Game 5 loss that were not only unexpected, much needed at the time. For overcoming physical and mental obstacles to be able to help hoist a trophy.

To Scott Pollard, for bringing the comedy. He now has a ring to go around his planet.

To Gabe Pruitt, for that infectious smile, and the glimmer in his eye of future three-pointers raining down in the Garden.

To, yes, even Sam Cassell, who, despite not getting as much playing time as he probably anticipated after coming to the C's, didn't become a clubhouse cancer. And for hitting a few shots along the way. And especially for throwing Sasha Vujacic to the floor in Game 5 after fighting gor a loose ball.

To Doc Rivers, for ignoring all the doubters and going with his instincts, even when he was the only one with many of those instincts. For sticking to his guns and guiding what could have been a powered into a united force. For making these guys become champions.

To Danny, the owners, all the Celtics greats of yesteryear who were there for the ride, for Tommy who had to endure the embarrassment of sitting at the lottery last year as it all went down the tubes, for Gino dancing his dance long after his time had passed,

To Red, who probably had about 30,000 people lighting his cigar halfway through the fourth quarter. For beating Phil Jackson on Red Auerbach court … it doesn't get any better than that.

And, most of all, to you Celtics fans. To the fans who sat through all the disappointment but never gave up hope. To the fans who went to the Garden during an 18-game losing streak. To the fans who decided to come back after seeing how special this year's team was. To the fans who never much cared for basketball but now have the itch. To everyone in Green.

Enjoy it. It sure tastes sweet.
Subject: Jokers


Author:
Bear it all
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Date Posted: 17:18:27 06/23/08 Mon
Hunting Bears:

Every year, Bob goes hunting during bear season. One year, Bob goes hunting, and shoots a small brown bear. Then, the mother of that small brown bear comes up to him and says, " I'll give you two choices, I'll either kill you, or make love to you, but I won't let you go."

Bob thinks on this, and decides he wants to live, so the mother bear then makes love to him.

The next year, Bob goes hunting again, but this time, he shoots the mother bear that he was forced to make love to the year before. He shoots her, and her mother comes after Bob, and again, gives him the choice. "I will make love to you, or kill you, which will it be??"

Again, Bob makes love to a bear.

The next year, Bob goes once again for revenge, and kills the bear that he was forced to make love to the year before.

This time, her sister comes up to Bob and says, "You don't come here for the hunting, do you?"
Subject: YnYphzEQWXb


Author:
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Date Posted: 10:31:17 06/23/08 Mon
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Subject: it happens


Author:
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Date Posted: 11:20:32 06/21/08 Sat
US prison guard stabbed to death by inmates
Jun 21 2008 WalesOnline

A guard has been stabbed to death by inmates at a federal prison in central California, officials said today.

Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin said 22-year-old Jose Rivera was taken to a hospital with stab wounds on Friday and declared dead a short time later.

The US Penitentiary in Atwater said the officer was stabbed by two inmates with home-made-weapons.

An autopsy is planned and the FBI is investigating.

The prison is in the San Joaquin Valley about 64 miles northwest of Fresno.
Subject: ouch


Author:
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Date Posted: 17:42:50 06/20/08 Fri
Prisons officer gunned down
Friday, June 20 2008

click on pic to zoom inPrisons officer Arnim Joseph who was gunned down while walking to his barber shop in St Joseph....« prev photo next photo »A prisons officer was gunned down in a hail of bullets around 10pm on Wednesday, near his barber shop on Abercromby Street, Street Joseph.

Police investigating the fatal drive-by shooting of Prisons Officer Arnim Joseph, 29, who was attached to the Remand Yard Prison, at Golden Grove, Arouca, believe the hit was called from inside the prison.

“We believe that the shot was called from inside the prison,” police and prisons sources said.

According to police, four occupants in an Almera motor car drove up to Joseph as he was heading to the shop and opened fire.

He was shot 17 times, mostly in the face and neck area. Joseph’s killing brings to 241 the number of persons murdered to date. The father of two, was rushed to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex but died while receiving emergency treatment.

When contacted for a comment, President of the Prisons Officers Association, Michael Williams, neither confirmed nor denied that the killing was a hit called from inside the prisons.

In a brief telephone interview Williams said, he was saddened by what has happened.

“Officer Joseph was a dedicated young officer. His superiors had high hopes for him,” he said.

“It could have been a hit, but investigations are on-going and we must be responsible and let the police do their work before jumping to any conclusions,” he added.

He said officers are being threatened while doing their jobs every day.

“It is something that we took up with the Commissioner and the Minister of National Security on many occasions. Maybe the time has come for us to take more drastic measures and go to the Prime Minister with our plight because no one is listening. Someone needs to deal with the protection of officers both on and off duty,” he said.

Asked about the other officer who was with Joseph at the time, Rougier refused to comment.

Prisons Commissioner John Rougier confirmed that officers who worked the shift on Tuesday night with Joseph, are finding it difficult to cope with his death.

Rougier did not make any statements but confirmed that “ the officers were meeting with counsellors and psychologists yesterday afternoon.”

Rougier promised to say more about the incident in a press release. Prison and police sources told Newsday yesterday that there is a strong possibility that Joseph was assassinated. “This was clearly a hit called from inside the prison,” they said.

Sources said Joseph, and another officer had cause to discipline two inmates while they were on duty on Tuesday night. This reporter was told that the inmates were fighting and Joseph and his colleague took the men to be disciplined. One source said following this, one of the inmates, who has connections on the outside, threatened Joseph and his colleague.

The inmate, according to the source, reportedly told the officers, “ I will do for all yuh.” Joseph lived on Caiman Road, St Joseph with his wife Diane and two sons. When Newsday visited Joseph’s home yesterday, two of his sisters Sacha and Nikita Monsegue, spoke highly of him and described him as “Mr Joseph of St Joseph.”

Both said their family did not condone nonsense. ‘If our brother was involved in any wrong-doing, we would be the first to say so,” they said. “He just drop off his two sons for their mother, and walking back to his barber shop, when they killed him,” they recalled.

The women said they have heard rumours surrounding his death but “their brother never brought his work home to his family.” Asked about the rumours, they preferred not to say. “I wish my brother had remained a barber, just a barber, and not gone into the service because maybe he would still be alive today. I never thought our family would have to go through something like this,” Nikita said.

“A little again and my two nephews would have been killed,” she said. The sisters said their brother was very ambitious and lived his life for his two children.

“He had plans to fix his home, and whatever he did, his family always came first. Imagine I had to go and wash down the blood of my brother from the roadway. It took 22 buckets of water to wash down that spot.” said Sacha, with tears in her eyes.

The two distraught women said they looked up to their brother because he was a “good soul.”

Nikita said because of the rumours she is now scared for the life of his two children.

“Arnim was well-loved in St Joseph by everyone, even children had a great and trusting relationship with him. His wife and mother are really in a state right now. Both of them in shock over what has happened,” Sacha explained.
Subject: eddie mack


Author:
bull frog
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Date Posted: 00:08:29 06/03/08 Tue
hey how is my pal doing up there???
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Subject: A case reopened (stay safe guys)


Author:
CO-1
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Date Posted: 10:09:53 06/12/08 Thu
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A case reopened as murder
Matthew R. Nagle, former Weymouth football star.

Email|Print|Single Page| Text size – + By Emily Sweeney
Globe Staff / June 12, 2008
Matthew R. Nagle was stabbed in the neck on July 3, 2001, and spent the last six years of his life in a wheelchair. After he died last July, prosecutors said they would consider pressing murder charges against his attacker.

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And now they are - in a move that some legal analysts say is unusual, but not without precedent.

Last week, a Norfolk County grand jury indicted Nicholas M. Cirignano on a charge of second-degree murder. Cirignano - already serving nine to 10 years at MCI- Norfolk for stabbing Nagle - now faces a charge that could keep him in prison for life.

He is expected to be arraigned in the next few weeks, according to David Traub, spokesman for the Norfolk district attorney's office.

The decision by Norfolk District Attorney William R. Keating to pursue the murder charge so long after the incident makes the case high profile.

"It is very unusual," said Peter Elikann, a Boston criminal defense attorney and a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association's criminal justice section. "We rarely hear about any cases like this. . . . It's almost unheard of."

Generally speaking, proving that a death was caused by injuries sustained years ago isn't easy, he said.

"Good defense counsel can come up with all kinds of reasons why something else caused a death years later," he said. "It could be very difficult for a prosecutor to show there's a direct link."

Prosecutors will have to prove that Nagle's death was caused by the stab wounds he received during a fight at an Independence Day celebration at Wessagusset Beach in Weymouth on July 3, 2001. The knife severed Nagle's spinal cord and left the 21-year-old former Weymouth High football star paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe without the help of a ventilator.

Nagle spent the next six years in a wheelchair and volunteered to participate in several groundbreaking medical studies. Last July, Nagle contracted sepsis, a blood infection, and slipped into a coma. He died at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton on July 23, 2007. He was 27 years old.

Cirignano, who was 20 years old at the time of the stabbing, was convicted in February 2005 of assault with intent to kill and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Cirignano was sentenced to nine to 10 years in state prison. Prosecutors had sought a longer sentence of 9 1/2 to 10 years for each count.

According to Keating, an investigation by the state medical examiner's office found that Nagle's injuries from the 2001 stabbing "were the eventual cause of his death in July 2007."

"Although it is not commonplace to be able to bring a murder charge when the victim has lived for several years after the attack, it is also not unprecedented in Massachusetts or elsewhere in the country," Keating said in a prepared statement, after the indictments were returned June 4.

Keating's office pointed out an incident in 1993 in which Crispulo Rodriguez, an inmate at MCI-Cedar Junction in Walpole, stabbed another inmate in the chest and leg. After the victim died six years later, Rodriguez was convicted of manslaughter.

For Nagle's case, "the issue will be, why did he die, and what role did the stabbing play in his eventual demise," said David Rossman, law professor and director of clinical programs in criminal law at the Boston University School of Law.

"It's not often the case that somebody dies so long after the initial injury," said Rossman. "Unless he had been getting continual medical treatment for his injuries, it's going to be difficult."

According to Rossman, the case is unusual, but not unheard of.

"In terms of legal doctrine, it's pure, in terms of the law," he said.

Dr. Jon Mukand, who treated Nagle and is writing a book titled "At Knifepoint: Brain Implant, Stem Cells, and Matthew Nagle's Quest for Recovery," believes Nagle's death was a result of the severe stab injuries he received.

Patients with spinal cord injuries so severe that they cannot breathe on their own have very high mortality rates; they are 40 times as likely to die in the first year compared with patients who suffer other types of spinal cord injuries, said Mukand.

The blood infection that Nagle developed is typically rare for people his age: out of 34,000 fatal cases of sepsis in 2005, only 311 of them were in people ages 25 to 34, he said.

"It's really not a common cause of death in that age group," unless one has a spinal injury that makes him dependent on a ventilator, he said.

Nagle's father declined to comment on the charges against Cirignano.

Emily Sweeney can be reached at esweeney@globe.com.
Subject: cant we all just get along?


Author:
jack mayhoffa
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Date Posted: 21:43:41 06/06/08 Fri
this is for all the looser screws who have nothing better to do than to play with the computer.
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Subject: A fine line


Author:
Whitey Bludgin
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Date Posted: 06:07:17 06/07/08 Sat

Police can be forced to take lie detector tests, SJC rules
Unanimous on internal probes


Saying public confidence in law enforcement must be protected, the state's high court ruled yesterday that police officers can be forced to take lie detector tests during internal investigations into possible criminal activity.


In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled against Officer Kevin J. Furtado, who was required to take a lie detector test by the Plymouth Police Department. The demand came after he was accused in 1999 of sexually abusing two children, an allegation the parents of the boys later said were unfounded, according to court records. Plymouth County prosecutors decided against bringing criminal charges against Furtado at that time.

Furtado was then subjected to an internal investigation by Police Chief Robert Pomeroy, who insisted on the lie detector test before Furtado could return to work, the SJC said. Furtado was granted immunity from prosecution and took the test, but then insisted his rights had been violated because employers are barred from using results of lie detector tests as the basis for a job, according to the SJC and court records.

That same law, however, allows lie detector tests to be conducted by law enforcement as part of its investigations, and the SJC said that exception must apply to officers who are targets of internal inquiries, even when no criminal charges will ever result.

"We have little hesitation in concluding that, when the functions of a Police Department are disrupted by allegations of criminal conduct by police officers, the Police Department's decision to subject officers reasonably suspected of criminal activities to lie detector tests furthers law enforcement objectives," Justice Robert Cordy wrote for the court by drawing on a 1984 ruling on the same issue.

Lawyers for Furtado and a police union warned that the SJC is slowly opening the door to widespread use of lie detectors for both public and private employees, but police chiefs and the lawyer for Plymouth said the ruling should help bolster public confidence in the integrity of police officers across the state.

"The lie detector is an important tool when you are investigating potential crimes by law enforcement officials," said Leonard H. Kesten, a lawyer who represented Plymouth and Pomeroy.

"You can't use it to prosecute them criminally . . . but this Police Department wanted to take every possible precaution before putting this police officer back to work."

A. Wayne Sampson, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of Police Chiefs, said the ruling "makes sense."

"Obviously, municipalities have a public policy obligation to ensure that all of our employees, especially police, are not involved in crime," he said.

But Plymouth lawyer Joseph Gallitano, who has represented Furtado for years, said that by linking employment to use of lie detectors, the court is eroding the few protections workers have against coercive practices by employers.

"It will bleed over to the private sector; it will certainly bleed over into other public sector" jobs, he said.

Furtado, who returned to work in 2000 and has lost the lawsuit demanding hundreds of thousands in damages, could not be reached for comment yesterday.

"It was just an unfortunate event that occurred," said Robert M. Mendillo, one of Furtado's lawyers. "No disciplinary action was ever taken against him."

Patrick Bryant, a lawyer who represented the Massachusetts Coalition of Police union, said the SJC has banned the use of lie detectors in the courts and then singles out police officers to be targeted.

"So why would you subject police officers and only police officers, to a technology that is essentially bogus?" he asked.

Kesten, the town's lawyer, said the court set out different rules for police because they have unique jobs.

"You can't arrest people," he said. "We are not allowed to use deadly force on people; they are."
Subject: Whatever


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A man died and went to The Judgment. St. Peter met him at the Gates of Heaven and said, "Before you meet with God, I thought I should tell you -- we've looked at your life, and your really didn't do anything particularly good or bad. We're not at all sure what to do with you. Can you tell us anything you did that can help us make a decision?"

The newly arrived soul thought for a moment and replied, "Yeah, once I was driving along and came upon a woman who was being harassed by a group of bikers. So I pulled over, got out my tire iron, and went up to the leader of the bikers. He was a big, muscular, hairy guy with tattoos all over his body and a ring pierced through his nose. Well, I tore the nose ring out of his nose, and told him he and his gang had better stop bothering the woman or they would have to deal with me!"

"I'm impressed," St. Peter responded, "When did this happen?"

"About two minutes ago," came the reply.
Subject: Fram CO


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Friday, May 30, 2008
Police raid nets pot plants, guns and a suspect

Ex-correction worker charged

By Kim Ring TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF



SPENCER— A former Department of Correction employee was arraigned yesterday on charges he was growing marijuana for sale in his Main Street apartment and had a loaded gun in his car when police raided his home earlier this month.

Police allegedly found 75 fledgling marijuana plants set under grow lights in a spare bedroom, where the heat was also turned up, in Justin P. Boudreau’s apartment at 6 Main St., Apt. 6, when they conducted a raid May 18.

They also allegedly found two rifles in the apartment and a loaded .40-caliber Sig Sauer handgun in the console of his unlocked car. Mr. Boudreau was arrested Wednesday night on a warrant issued by Western Worcester District Court, East Brookfield.


Officers also seized letters from a female inmate at Framingham State Prison. The letters were addressed to Jeff Podine of 8 Sunset Lane, Spencer, a residence police also raided May 18. In that incident, Jeff M. Castro, 26, of that address, was arrested and charged with drug violations.

Members of the Worcester County Regional Drug and Counter Crime Task Force and Spencer police conducted the investigation. Their report indicates that Jeff Podine is a fictitious name. The Web site, Urbandictionary.com, lists the word “podine” as a slang term for police.

Officers also believe that the inmate’s letters may be related to another crime.

“It is the belief of this officer that these letters might unfold other illegal activities taking place, stemming from the focus of this investigation,” the police report states.

Inside Mr. Boudreau’s apartment, officers seized the 75 plants, a pH test kit, soil, timers and other materials they believe are related to growing the marijuana plants.

Police wrote in their report that Mr. Bourdreau is an employee of the state Department of Correction. A spokesman for that agency said yesterday Mr. Boudreau is no longer working there but declined to say when, or why, his tenure there ended.

At his arraignment in Western Worcester District Court in East Brookfield yesterday, Mr. Boudreau was released on personal recognizance and is slated to appear for a pretrial hearing July 16.
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Subject: TAKE A GOOD LOOK


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CO
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Date Posted: 23:44:23 05/29/08 Thu
Fall River man found guilty of strangling niece
TAUNTON, Mass. -- A Fall River man has been convicted of first-degree murder for strangling his teenage niece with a dog leash.

Christopher Banville received the mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole after his conviction on Wednesday in Taunton Superior Court.

Authorities say the 35-year-old Banville used the leash to strangle 17-year-old Krista Lucianno in January 2006 in the garage of his parents Fall River home because he was angry she was talking too loudly on the phone.

Banville was also convicted of stealing his parents SUV and fleeing to Maryland.

Banville said at trial that he wasn't home at the time of Lucianno's death, but found her body when he returned to the house.
Subject: For a good laugh go to the Wyatt board and read the disscussion on if thier real LE


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http://www.voy.com/208690/
under what F##$$ing idiots
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Subject: CON LOVER


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WHATS UP WITH SGT SHNUFELD GIVING SOSA 4 EGG SANDWICHS FOR BREAKFAST ..AND YES ITS ON PAPER ...
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Subject: lets buy it.


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Date Posted: 22:57:50 05/27/08 Tue
Maine jail for sale for $200,000
Email|Print|Single Page| Text size – + May 27, 2008
SKOWHEGAN, Maine—If you're in the market for a roomy brick-and-stone Victorian, complete with a security system and razor-wire fencing, then Somerset County officials may have a deal for you.

more stories like thisThe Somerset County Jail in downtown Skowhegan is for sale. It has a price tag of $200,000.

The 14,000-square-foot lockup, which was built in 1897, is scheduled to shut down later this year when a new 200-bed county jail opens in Madison.

Somerset County Commissioner Philip Roy said the aim is to get the property back on the tax rolls.

He said some ideas include turning the property into a restaurant, an art gallery, a gift shop or even a bus station.
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Subject: WHO IS THE UNION GUY WHO PASSED AWAY FRIDAY


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Subject: nicely said


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Subject: Large stash of P found in inmates' cells


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Date Posted: 12:30:09 05/25/08 Sun
Large stash of P found in inmates' cells
24/05/2008 6:24:02


A large quantity of the drug "P" has been found inside Mt Eden Prison in Auckland.


Guards uncovered $26,000 worth of P while searching inmates' cells.


The Corrections Department says P is an easily concealed fine powder, which explains how such a large amount could be smuggled in.
Subject: Hillary vs Obama


Author:
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Date Posted: 07:25:32 05/24/08 Sat

The Last Debate


By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: May 21, 2008
“What do you want? Please, Sweetie, would you just tell me what you want?”



Maureen Dowd

Go to Columnist Page » “Don’t Sweetie me, Twiggy. You know what I want.”

“Besides that, Hillary. Seriously, you don’t want your delusion to put John McCain in the White House. Or maybe you do. You have no shot. I’m 60 delegates away from nomination nirvana. You should stop stalking me. I come down to Florida for a victory lap and you follow me down here and call for a recount. Look what that did for Al Gore. If you show a shred of common sense and take a powder now, the party will put you on a pedestal.”

“Pedestals are for losers. You’re on a pedestal. I’ve never been a loser. I refuse to lose. I won the West Virginia and Kentucky derbies, and I’m not going to end up like Eight Belles.”

“Hillary, you’ve been a great candidate, better than your train-wreck campaign. You’re Churchillian in your indomitable tenacity. You’ve inspired women all over the country. In fact, you’ve inspired some of them to hate me. But now it’s time for you to try to muster a gracious exit.”

“Forget it, Bones. Once Harold Ickes works his dark magic on the delegate rules to count Michigan and Florida, I’ll have the popular vote. And then the superdelegates will grovel back. They know in their hearts that they don’t want to go on a blind date with a guy who’s going to be BFF with Cuba, Hamas, Iran and retired Weathermen. You can bet your white turban that I’m not raising the white flag.”

“Like hell you aren’t, sister.”

“Sexist!”

“Racist!”

“Speaking of whites, you can’t win without them. And if you think your Secretary of Hairdressing, John Edwards, is going to help, you’re more delusional than I am.”

“Hillary, when are you going to realize that these whites you consider your pawns are so sick of the Republicans that they’re going to vote for anybody who has the ‘D’ next to their name, and it’s going to be me. So cool it with the White Fright. Now what do you want? Debt relief?”

“Bill and I don’t need your Netroots arugula moolah. We don’t need your stinking $20 donors. We’ve got Burkle, the Saudis, the Kuwaitis and Kazakh uranium loot on tap.”

“Settle down, Hillary. What if I let you write the health care plank in the party platform?”

“Wow, you’re so-o-o generous. Can I also write the plank on switchgrass?”

“I switched from grass a long time ago.”

“Listen, rookie, we’re gonna have to share this thing.”

“Fine, you can have the 3 a.m. shift on the White House switchboard.”

“Oh, you’re so witty with all your stupid rallies with 75,000 people and spending $100 million on ads to promote one puny word: Change. I’ve made sacrifices in this campaign. While you’ve been fake-eating and losing weight, I’ve had to stuff myself with all that greasy working-class junk food and chase it with Boilermakers.”

“What about me? I’ve come from nowhere, with a single mother on food stamps and a funny name.”

“Oh, you’re so inspiring. For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my country.”

“Don’t mock Michelle. I would be polite and ask you to be my vice president, but you’d accept, just the same way Lyndon Johnson sandbagged Bobby Kennedy, so I can’t. You and Bill are just too much drama for me. Bill is off-the-charts crazy.”

“Tell me about it. But he’d be way over on Massachusetts Avenue, a completely different ZIP code than the White House. And Cheney built that underground bunker there, so we’d always have someplace to stash him. If you don’t put me on the ticket, I’ll signal my faithful to vote for John McCain. He’s more fun than you, anyhow.”

“Hillary, I don’t trust you. And Michelle hates your guts. Look, the Senate is a wonderful place. I enjoyed my two months there. You’ve never made the most of the experience because you were so busy using it as a launching pad.”

“Back at ya, Skeletor.”

“Can you stop talking, Hillary? Is that even possible?”

“No, I won’t, Mr. Never-Convened-Your-European-Affairs-Subcommittee. I don’t want to go back. It’s boring. And why should I work with all those self-hating, so-called feminists who stabbed me in the back, like Claire McCaskill and Amy Klobuchar?”

“Look, Hillary, a few years back in the Senate helping me move my world-changing agenda will help you repair some of those relationships. In Barack Obama’s Washington, there will be no more game-playing, mud-slinging or back-stabbing.”

“Hey, Seńor Appeaser, there’s another primary in 2012. Bill and I are already gearing up for it.”

“You’re not likeable enough, Hillary.”
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Subject: WHAT IS GOING ON UP THERE???


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HOPE ALL STAFF ARE SAFE
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Date Posted: 00:32:25 05/22/08 Thu
YOU GUY'S KEEP YOUR HEADS UP
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Subject: Kenny


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Kenny watcher
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Date Posted: 18:24:25 05/20/08 Tue
Kenny is more crooked than a snake in a hurry. Trizzle trazzle trazzle trome, time for this crook to go home.
Subject: copied BSH.......INTERESTING


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Date Posted: 12:10:05 05/18/08 Sun
Key phrases sowing fear and division--changing the game -- from lexington Ky. Herald,, 07:52:36 05/17/08 Sat


The opportunity for national renewal will be even greater if, as appears almost certain, Sen. Barack Obama is the nominee.

... while Clinton is an adept practitioner of politics as we know it, Obama is offering something new. He makes a convincing case that he can lead this country without sowing fear and dividing people, the cynical ploys of a political era that has run out of steam.

Obama has given voice to a widespread yearning not just for a changing of the guard but for a changing of the game. And that ability to express a people's aspirations is a mark of leadership.

Like President John F. Kennedy, another senator who electrified young people, Obama also has the substance to transform idealism into action.

... Obama is uniquely suited to lay out the challenges, reignite this country's can-do spirit and lead us into a better future.
Subject: KEEP WATCHING


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Know Your Weingarten Rights -- Kenny Ferullo, 11:06:33 06/12/02 Wed
We've all heard since the academy days to use your weingarten rights. what are they and when should I use them? I will try and put it into street terms how to use them. First of all what are they? The answer is your right to union representation. Does management have to tell me to get a steward? The answer is no you have to request it. What if management says no discipline is going to come out of this conversation should I still request a union rep? The answer is yes if discipline does result from a one on one conversation it becomes your word against theirs. If you have representation (witness) in essence they would have to be calling two people liars if the stories don't add up. If you are told that management has set up a meeting with you in advance it is good advice to put in writing a request to invoke your weingarten rights for this meeting. Remember that a paper trail is usually all the evidence introduced at hearings so it is to your benefit to have one of your own. Even if your going down to operations to request a day off it is good to have someone with you, it doesn't have to be a union rep at this point but any union member who can witness your name going into that book. The final bit of advice is this always, always invoke your weingarten rights, never leave a gray area for management to minipulate your words. The bottom line is expect every conversation with management could lead to discipline so know your rights. Weingarten does not only pertain to us it is a state law that involves all unions and is overseen by the labor commission. the phone number to the labor commission is 617-727-3505 should you need any advice. As always feel free to email me with any concerns or questions I will get you an answer. stay educated, that is managements worse nightmare they can't get over on you if you know what your talking about Kenny Ferullo
Subject: KEEP WATCHING


Author:
FROG
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Date Posted: 22:22:23 05/16/08 Fri
RUMOR CONTROL -- KENNY FERULLO, 11:54:41 08/07/02 Wed
I have no idea what Jack Farrell was talking about on Friday. The information that was given out at the union meeting on Wednesday is still pretty accurate. The D.O.C. is still short 9.9 million dollars. The commissioner is formulating a plan to cut some funds other than layoffs. The union stands firm that we will not get into our contract or give anything up. The smoke is starting to settle and management realizes that there are other people other than just co's that will take a hit. If Jack knows something we don't he hasn't shared it with anyone else. Remain cautiously optomistic on the layoffs, Oct. 1, is still the target date. I will make every effort to keep you informed on the latest information as it happens.
Kenny Ferullo, chief steward
Subject: KEEP WATCHING WATCHING


Author:
FROG
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Date Posted: 22:20:19 05/16/08 Fri
RESULTS OF LABOR MANAGEMENT WITH MR. MARSHALL -- KENNY FERULLO, 12:20:53 08/18/02 Sun
As a result of the labor management meeting with Mr. Marshall and the concord management team to include Mr. Grant the following was agreed upon: The s.e.c.c. officers currently holding concord job pick positions will be made sta retaining their shifts and days off as per the trasfer agreement and those jobs will go up for pick for all officers including the s.e.c.c. officers to bid on. There will also be 3 s.t.a./construction jobs posted with the hours of 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with the days off being f/s s/s and s/m. at the end of construction these jobs will revert back to s.t.a. 7-3 with the same days off. These adjustments are being made to allevatiate some of the problems with the closing of the gym and hopefully balancing the rosters. These results were achieved as a direct result of both labor and management working together to resolve problems that effect both sides. We truly feel this is an attempt to change the way we do business. It benefits both sides to resolve issues in this fashion. Kenny Ferullo, chief steward
Subject: MY BOY KEN


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RUMOR CONTROL -- KENNY FERULLO, 12:21:28 09/04/02 Wed
Once again there are numerous rumors floating around the D.O.C. I will try my best and give you some accurate info as I have received it. The 5 and out is all but dead at this time the reason given is that we are not now facing layoffs and that would be the only time it would be an option. The budget was signed on 7-25-02 and I have an agreement signed in 1995 by Mr. Bolger and Danny O'neil that states that the clothing allowance (750.00) will be paid in 90 days from the time the budget is signed into law. That makes payment due sometime in October I have not heard anything that it would be delayed. There is a new executive secretary on the e-board his name is Hank Harris and he is out of the maintenance dept in Shirley. Good luck and welcome aboard. There is a labor management meeting tomorrow Thursday 9-5-02 between the e-board and the Mr. Maloney regarding comp time for holiday pay. The commissioner wants to begin implementing this on the next holiday that being Columbus Day and every other holiday there after for fiscal year 03. The union strongly opposes this action and has already started litigation against this from happening, I will keep you posted as the information becomes available. keep in mind that we may be handcuffed by our own contract once again as the language in our contract allows this action to occur, after a discussion with c.o. Hamel I contacted the e-board to clarify if this does go into effect would you have to put in for time off and then be denied in order to get paid in 60 days. The contract may suggest just that but again there is no memorandum of understanding in our contract to clarify this and it is another matter to be negotiated. MCI Concord this year was budgeted for 3,660 hours of o.t. This is a decrease of 3,000 hours from last year to date we have used 868.53 hours leaving a balance of 2,791.47. Needless to say that o.t. will be scarce so take it when you can get it. As always feel free to contact me for any reason.
Kenny Ferullo, chief steward
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Subject: TAKE A GOOD LOOK


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Date Posted: 23:25:10 05/15/08 Thu
Guard accused of having sex with inmates
By Norman Miller / Daily News Staff
Tuesday, March 29, 2005

FRAMINGHAM -- A prison guard accused of having sex with two female inmates at a minimum security institute in Framingham now faces charges, jail time and fines for the incidents.

Moises Ballista, 28, of Springfield was indicted on six counts of having sexual relations with an inmate, said Middlesex district attorney's office spokeswoman Melissa Sherman yesterday.

The incidents are alleged to have occurred on various dates in 2003 and 2004 at the South Middlesex Correctional Center, a pre-release minimum security institute located next to MCI-Framingham.

Department of Correction spokeswoman Diane Wiffin said the incident is under investigation.

"We take the allegations very seriously," said Wiffin. "It's an abuse of the power and authority invested in us as law enforcement officials."

Ballista has been "detached," or suspended, with pay since the allegations came to light in May, 2004, Wiffin said.

Sherman said the DOC discovered the "inappropriate sexual relations" with the two inmates and began an internal investigation.

The Middlesex district attorney's office was informed of the incidents in September 2004. After an investigation, Ballista was indicted on Friday, Sherman said.

The names and the ages of the victims were not released. It is not known if the women are still incarcerated.

It is a crime in Massachusetts for a prison guard to have sex with inmates.

Ballista faces up to five years in state prison for each count if he is convicted and/or a $10,000 fine.

Wiffin said she could not say how long Ballista has worked as a correction officer, or at what other facilities he has worked, citing personnel privacy.

Ballista could not be reached for comment yesterday.

The DOC, Wiffin said, investigates all such incidents completely.

"This is serious misconduct, and we take it seriously," she said.

Ballista is scheduled to be arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge on April 11.

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/lo...rticleid=94377
__________________
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Subject: TAKE A LOOK AT THIS


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#1 May 08, 2007, 03:07 PM
dansegypsy
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I worked in UMass (ZooMass) Correctional Health Care.

We we chronically short staffed, one RN & 2 LPNs for a 1500 bed male medium security facility. The comaraderie was tops as we were forced to stick together to survive. We had a lot of emergency calls that would set back our heavy scheduled med passes and clinics.

UMass will not back you when something happens, and they seem to prefer to coddle the inmates in fear they will riot. Even some COs buy into this mentality and have not intervened to assist a nurse under attack. The load can stress anyone until they make a mistake, and then it is your fault. Administration will scapegoat a nurse in this ultra-liberal state. The inmates will demand and verbally abuse nurses using sexual metaphors openly on med rounds in the segregation unit.

Places to avoid are MCI Shirley, MCI Cedar Junction (formerly Walpole State Prison), Framingham (female) and MCI Norfolk.

If you must work there, make sure you have malpractice insurance paid up.

If you can, run sreaming, as far away as you can. There are better jobs out there. Try the federal system.

Good luck, stay safe and take care.



#2 May 24, 2007, 09:23 PM
KellieNurse06
Registered User Join Date: Sep 2005

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really......hmmmm. I just went for an interview at Bridgewater State Hospital which is under UMass. They told me you can refuse the forced stay 2x then you get fired. It sounded like I was pretty much hired, but haven't heard from them since my interview last Wed. Does it normally take this long?? It drives me crazy when places inerview you and give you he impression you are pretty much hired only to never call you. They said it takes a while to get the background check done.....but a week??? I have a friend who has a relative who works as a guard there, and they said something about some paper you can fill out every 6 months so you can't be fired for refusal of forced stay.........I applied there pretty much for the benefits because I need insurance & everything, plus it's literally right up the road from me......any more info you can add, seeing it's under UMass ????? Thanx!


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#3 May 25, 2007, 03:19 PM
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I just found out "unofficially" I was hired!!! I am getting the "official" call Tuesday with my offer & all the details............I am so psyched! Hey I can always look for employment if it doesn't pan out.....but I won't know until I give it a try.....I am doing 24 hrs...3 8's a week........3-11. I will post how it's going after I start going to orientation & then when I actually start work...I am so excited because I will have full benefits & hopefully job security ...plus I can still keep my home care jobs!!!!



#4 Aug 27, 2007, 11:23 PM
BrianRN-PsychSup
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Hello, I find this post disconcerting at best. I am interested in a position at MCI Framingham. I have a friend who works in the HR dept. at UMass correctional. She is telling me how great the people are there and the benefits and all that. I have no prejudices about working with incarcerated people. In the ER where I worked many of the Fram. IM's were brought in for Tx. The CO's kept telling me how I should apply there. That they needed the help. So I am of two minds here.
1) Run away, they are trying to sell it too hard.
2) Could the negatives I hear be just "sour grapes".

I have been in a private psych hospital as a nsg. sup. for about 8 months. It got VERY BAD. Dangerous and scary. We were forced to admit pt's that were way too violent and (dare I say) crazy. Long Hx of assaultive Bx towards staff etc. Are way understaffed. e.g. 1 RN and three MHW's on the acute unit and 1/1 in the "non acute" units.
No security staff at all. I was on Nights covering a staff RN shift and was kicked in the chest by a female when we attempted to move her to the acute unit. The MHW's and RN Supv. just stood there and stared in amazement. Then, not one would stand up when I reported it to mgmnt. The Supv. said that she didn't notice me getting kicked, flying back 6 feet, landing in a chair and sliding in the chair another two feet. ( I am kind of a big guy and kinetic energy is amazing)

Run away, quickly.

I do not want to jump out of the frying pan into the fire.

I would appreciate any more incite onto UMass before I delve in. You can PM me if you like.

Thanks,
Brian RN.


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[quote=dansegypsy;2193806]I worked in UMass (ZooMass) Correctional Health Care.



Are you a unionized facility? If so you have an excellent grievances for both a hostile work environment and an unsafe staffing.

If you are not an unionized facility, you can stage a silent protest, as long as all the staff is united to improve working conditions, by " working to code" Nurses in this type of environment tend to take potentially unsafe shortcuts, to accomplish all that needs to be completed on their shift. Management is aware that this happens, but will never back you up if the individual nurse makes a mistake in the course of their shift. But working to code, you practice nursing, safely as you were taught in school. All the checks , double checks, foloww all nursing P&P to the letter, Follow all the DOC P&P to the letter. Management cannot discipline you for following DOC policies and nursing standards. If they do they are ordering you to practice unsafely. They would all be ordering to violate and act outside your scope of practice. Good luck and if you have any further questions, feel free to PM me.



#6 Oct 30, 2007, 11:51 AM
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Well, if any of you are willing to go outside of MA, I know there are opps in CT. Let me know if you're interested.


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#7 Nov 02, 2007, 07:56 AM
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appalled to hear this. in Texas, we truly live by the slogan "DONT MESS WITH TEXAS"....i have worked in Texas as a head nurse of a prison and in other detention facilities and i assure you, inmates aint "coddled" and the CO's and rank have always been overly protective of nurses. zero tolerance for any of that behavior. maybe it's the redneck good ole boy tough talkin' Texan mentality or something, but in my experience, the CO's were very tough........
come to Texas, where we do things right!!
i would love to go back into corrections but i just started the dream job of my life and i just cannot, absolutely cannot leave-gonna ride this gravy train until it runs out!


Originally Posted by dansegypsy
I worked in UMass (ZooMass) Correctional Health Care.

We we chronically short staffed, one RN & 2 LPNs for a 1500 bed male medium security facility. The comaraderie was tops as we were forced to stick together to survive. We had a lot of emergency calls that would set back our heavy scheduled med passes and clinics.

UMass will not back you when something happens, and they seem to prefer to coddle the inmates in fear they will riot. Even some COs buy into this mentality and have not intervened to assist a nurse under attack. The load can stress anyone until they make a mistake, and then it is your fault. Administration will scapegoat a nurse in this ultra-liberal state. The inmates will demand and verbally abuse nurses using sexual metaphors openly on med rounds in the segregation unit.

Places to avoid are MCI Shirley, MCI Cedar Junction (formerly Walpole State Prison), Framingham (female) and MCI Norfolk.

If you must work there, make sure you have malpractice insurance paid up.

If you can, run sreaming, as far away as you can. There are better jobs out there. Try the federal system.

Good luck, stay safe and take care.




#8 Feb 14, 2008, 11:46 PM
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Unfortunately, I/M are coddled where I am too. It is the liberal movement. Soon, they will be receiving pensions from the prison systems once they reach 65.



#9 Feb 15, 2008, 06:03 AM
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Wow you really are short handed. And any C.O. that dosn't back you up when your'e attacked is a piece of **** !! (yes I said it) You should get the hell out of there as fast as your little feet will carry you and then they can all just care for themselves. Come to New York where the Villians do seem to feel "entitled" but we try not to placate them for fear of litigation. In the SHU areas sure your are going to get that sort of action from knuckleheads ( hey thats why they are there ). Not only do inmates get to grieve situations but you do also. If your not already on record with your own grievance then your not doing your part to correct it, you do have a responsibility to report unsafe practices going on around so that not only you but others benefit from the complaint. Short staffing where I come from could close your entire facility or else the state will have to "reassign nurses from other facilities towards you until shotage is remedied. Good luck and remember the state also has the onus of protecting you as well.
Dennis



#10 Feb 19, 2008, 05:48 PM
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Seriously, do not put up with that. Is it privitized care, state or what? I hope you do have a union, and if not, I would run to find a healthier work setting. Document document document. Names, dates, events, witnesses. You sound like a lawyer may be needed in your future: either to defend a worker's comp suit (how dangerous!); or a stress disability - harrassment case which you have by the way. Such people abusing such power should not be tolerated. Doing so allows it to fester, on many many levels. Drop a dime for everyone.

I am sorry to hear this, as I am a Mass girl who found her corrections career in California. Someday I may want to come back "home" to work.



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Subject: HIV-positive man sentenced 35 years for spitting at officer


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DALLAS - An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Because a jury found that Willie Campbell used his saliva as a deadly weapon, the 42-year-old will have to serve half his sentence before becoming eligible for parole. He was sentenced Wednesday.

Campbell was being arrested in May 2006 for public intoxication when he began resisting and kicking inside the patrol car, Dallas police office Dan Waller testified.

Campbell was convicted of harassment of a public servant.
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Hon Phil Goff
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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.

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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 Rimutaka’s 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.

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The programme will be rolled out nationally over time.
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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.

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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 Rimutaka’s 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.
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Subject: What does it take?


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Subject: marchand


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Subject: Another fine selection by the DOC Academy...


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Date Posted: 10:18:51 04/02/08 Wed
MARLBOROUGH — A 25-year-old state employee was arrested Sunday night after police said he drove his car to a Dunkin' Donuts drive-through window while naked.

Steven M. Gerrior of 65 West Main St. works for the Department of Correction and has been suspended with pay pending an investigation, said department spokeswoman Diane Wiffin.

Gerrior pulled up to the window around 6:30 p.m. and fondled himself while waiting for his coffee, according to a police report filed in Marlborough District Court.

When a woman working the drive-through window handed Gerrior a napkin he had asked for, she saw he was nude and became too upset to serve him, according to the report. A second female employee handed Gerrior the coffee, and, she, too, saw him touching himself, the report said.

One of the women gave police Gerrior's license plate number, and he was arrested later Sunday night on a charge of open and gross lewdness.

Gerrior was arraigned yesterday in Marlborough District Court. Judge Jonathan Brant released him without bail.

Wiffin declined to comment on in what capacity Gerrior is employed with the Department of Correction.
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Subject: exodus started


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WEST BOYLSTON— Correction officers at the Worcester County Jail and House of Correction are set to vote tomorrow on whether to leave the union that has represented them for the last dozen years and join an upstart new union that has up to now mainly been associated with police officers.

The decertification election is from 2 p.m.— 5 p.m. at the jail complex’s training center.

The vote among the 360 officers and sergeants will decide whether they leave the Massachusetts Correction Officer Federated Union and join the New England Police Benevolent Association, according to Peter Boyd, chief steward of the MCOFU local.

Mr. Boyd said he will run for president of the new union if members vote to decertify. He maintained that members have been dissatisfied with MCOFU’s representation for some time, and with the local’s 5-year contract expiring June 30, want to go with a union that will help them get better wages and benefits and safer working conditions.

Mr. Boyd noted that the Worcester County MCOFU chapter got total raises of 6 percent over the five years, while state correction officers also represented by MCOFU got 14 percent raises during the same period.

“We feel like we’ve been doormats of the administration for far too long,” Mr. Boyd said. “We’ve been saying for a long time that we want to make the same pay as the state correction officers.”

In recent months, both sides have been campaigning to win the jail employees’ votes.
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Subject: something different


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A husband and his wife had a bitter quarrel on the day of their 20th wedding anniversary.

The husband gave his wife a gift -- a tombstone, with the inscription: "Here Lies My Wife -- Cold As Ever."

Later, the furious wife bought a return present, also a tombstone, on which the inscription read: "Here Lies My Husband -- Stiff At Last."
Subject: It's over


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Date Posted: 23:15:06 04/07/08 Mon
« NEW ENGLAND PBA LOBBYING PAYS DIVIDENDSWORCESTER COUNTY ELECTS NEW ENGLAND PBA
April 4, 2008 - The 360 members of the Worcester County Sheriff’s came out in huge numbers to vote for the New England PBA, I.U.P.A., AFL-CIO to be their new exclusive bargaining agent. By an overwhelming show of support the Worcester Country Sheriff’s voted 256 -20 to rid themselves of the state correction officers union, commonly known as MCOFU.

The Wocester County Sheriff’s join the Middlesex County Correction Officer’s Association, NEPBA Local 500, Massachusetts DOC Captain’s Union, NEPBA Local 200, Worcester County Superior Officer Union, NEPBA Local 275 and NH State Correction Officer’s Union, Local 240, NH State Correction Supervisor’s Union, NEPBA Local 245 as the expanding number of law enfocement professionals represented by New England PBA.

The New England PBA ran an agressive campaign which outline the disparate contractual differences between what the Worcester County Sheriff’s received and the contract the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union (MCOFU) got for themselves. The 14% increase MCOCFU got vs. the lousy 6% Worcester received during the same 5 year period spoke volumns about the type of representation they received. However, to add insult to injury - MCOFU received $4,000 in retro and a whopping $3,000 signing bonus, while the Wocester County Sheriff’s got ZERO in retro pay and another big fat ZERO for signing bonus.

The Wocester County Sheriff’s ended their 12 year affiliation with MCOFU and are looking forward to working with their new exclusive bargaing agent. As Chief Steward Peter Boyd stated, “We are looking to improve the wages and be on par with our counterparts in State Corrections, we believe New England PBA and their record of accomplishment gives us the best chance to do that.” He further stated, “We have received more information and assistance in the last few meeting with New England PBA than we received with MCOFU in the last twelve years.”Â

Executive Board member Ryan Martin called the vote, “A mandate by the membership and an exciting time to be involved in the stucture of our own local union. We are very excited and proud to be the newest members of the New England PBA!”

New England PBA Executive Director Jerry Flynn stated, “The membership has spoken and we are looking forward to providing them with the independence to run their own local and the power to be associated with the largest AFL-CIO law enforcement labor organization in New England!”

New England PBA President Bryan W. McMahon called the addittion of the Worcester County Sheriff’s “A welcomed addition to our growing family of law enforcement professionals and we are looking forward to working with them to achieve their goals.”Â
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Subject: Going places


Author:
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Date Posted: 15:34:28 04/04/08 Fri
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