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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 05:36 PM
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1. Here's the bit from the Observer about the staff mtg
but it has Monday's date-

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But inside the detention facility, military leaders started clamping down on discipline and security in what they say is an effort to stop another round of suicide attempts already being planned.

"Right now, we are at ground zero," an emotional prison commander, Col. Mike Bumgarner, told his officers at his morning staff meeting.

"The trust level is gone. They have shown time and time again that we can't trust them any farther than we can throw them. There is not a trustworthy son of a ... in the entire bunch."

With that, Bumgarner ordered his staff to assess and curtail existing policies on detainee clothing, meals, recreation time, prison lighting and discipline. He ordered more frequent patrols in the cellblocks. He said existing rules on detainee behavior must be enforced quickly and fully.

"If a brother covers up a window with a sheet or blanket, you give him an order and then you go get him," Bumgarner said.

Later in the day, the colonel said the tougher restrictions would stay in place for the foreseeable future.

"Once I get a better read of things"

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/world/14803975.htm

It does sound like he has a little cabin fever.
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