“The sergeant tells me that I’ve been in prison for long time and I should know better, that if I didn’t tell the nurse that was going to examine me that nothing has happened that they were going to kill me for real this time”, he wrote.
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After two prisoners fled Clinton Correctional Facility, corrections officers physically assaulted dozens of inmates, especially those placed in the honor block, an investigation by The New York Times reveals. What did you hear?
The prison worker charged with supporting a couple of New York prisoners escape made from a high-maximum financial mental and emotional health that prison has grabbed a petition price. “How much are they paying you to keep your mouth shut?”
Alexander lived in the conjoining cell to murderers Richard W. Matt and David Sweat, the two men who in a June 6 jailbreak used hacksaws to escape from their cells though a tunnel system.
Inmates have said that the Department of Corrections is looking into the allegations of brutal interrogations – several said they have been visited by members of the department’s Office of Special Investigations. Alexander said officers shouted questions as he was punched.
Matt was fatally shot June 27 about 30 miles from the prison. “Any findings of misconduct or abuse against inmates will be punished to the full extent of the law”.
One of the guards put a plastic bag over his head, Mr. Alexander said, and threatened to waterboard him. Sweat appeared to be caught nearby the Canadian boundary 48 hours later by assert policemen Sgt.
“The officer … slams my head into the pipe along the wall”, Alexander alleged, according to the Times. “The other two get up and start hitting me also in the ribs and stomach…” Inmates, according to the Times report, joked that the “only ones walking the cellblocks on the overnight shift were the cockroaches”.
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Sixty inmates have filed official complaints with Prisoners’ Legal Services, a group that assists inmates with their legal rights.
