2nd prison worker charged in connection with inmates' escape
Source: CNN
A corrections officer from the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York has been arrested and charged with promoting dangerous prison contraband, destroying evidence and official misconduct, Andrew Brockway, an attorney for the man, told CNN on Wednesday.
Officer Gene Palmer, who is on paid leave, allegedly took frozen meat embedded with smuggled tools to the inmates' cell area in the now-closed honor block, Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said Wednesday. Wylie also said Palmer escorted the men into the catwalk area behind their cells to fix electrical breakers so the inmates could use hot plates to cook food. Authorities have said Matt and Sweat used the catwalks during their June 6 escape.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/24/us/new-york-prison-break/index.html
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)there would be a freezer in the tailor shop? That's where the meat came from.
DeadLetterOffice
(1,352 posts)worked in the tailor shop and was smuggling tools in to the prison in frozen hamburger. (no idea how or why)
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)in a freezer in the tailor shop. Why do they need a freezer in a tailor shop? I'm just curious.
Justice
(7,188 posts)PSPS
(13,647 posts)Another example of how our culture rewards for bad behavior -- the customary paid vacation.
CANDO
(2,068 posts)He's only been charged. It's called due process.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Beauregard
(376 posts)A former inmate says that Mitchell and Sweat would disappear into a closet in the tailor shop about 4 times a week, often for as long as 1/2 hour. Start at 1:23.
http://ht.cdn.turner.com/cnn/big//us/2015/06/24/joyce-mitchell-relationship-david-sweat-dnt-todd-tsr.cnn_cnn_iphone_cell.mp4
moondust
(20,032 posts)A guy kills and DISMEMBERS his boss, is convicted and goes to prison, later gets to live in the honor block and wear civilian clothes, works in a sewing shop and apparently has sex regularly with a prison employee, then escapes with the help of possibly more than one prison employee? What the ever lovin' holy fuck is going on there?
Incidentally, is the main function of the sewing shop to provide cheap prison labor to some outside companies?
Historic NY
(37,463 posts)shirts, trousers and other clothing, including uniforms for correction officers.
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Dannemora-escapees-were-on-good-behavior-tier-6313865.php
Your thinking about Corcraft which makes things for institutions, state parks, local governments, etc.
http://www.corcraft.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TopCategoriesDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051
moondust
(20,032 posts)Some states allow for-profit prison labor which may be driving for-profit prisons and massive incarceration rates.
Prison Labor For Profit