Happy Memorial Day

 

Remember the Fallen

Jelly Roll visits the Hennepin County Jail

Musician Jelly Roll visited the Hennepin County jail while he was in town the other day.

Photo's from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office Facebook page.

CO Union opposes Stillwater closing

 

Stillwater Prison Closing!

The Minnesota Department of Corrections has announced they are closing Stillwater Prison. They cite economic, health and safety reasons.

They do not intend to build a new prison but to spread the inmates to the State's other 9 facilities. They also expect to reduce staff, however it should be pointed out that there is already a severe shortage of Corrections Officers in Minnesota and overcrowding in most prisons and jails.

Short staffing is already a major safety issue for staff and inmates.

As a retired Detention Deputy from Hennepin County I remember a time that the State had an overcrowding situation and dumped inmates near the end of their sentences into County Jails. This created a logistical nightmare of keeping convicted inmates separated from pre-trial inmates and the angry State inmates who didn't have the programs they were accustomed to in prison. The State also paid a very low daily rate to the County to house their inmates pushing the cost onto the County taxpayers.

Let's hope the State doesn't do that again, but I doubt they thought that far ahead.

Full Story KSTP

Judge STRIPS NYC of Control Over Rikers Island

 Gateway Pundit is reporting : Judge STRIPS NYC of Control Over Rikers Island.

A federal judge has stripped the city of control over its notorious Rikers Island jail complex, citing “unprecedented” levels of violence, systemic mismanagement, and a blatant disregard for court orders.

In a scathing 77-page ruling released Tuesday, Chief U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain officially stripped New York City and its Department of Correction (DOC) of full control over Rikers Island, citing a decade of failure to protect inmates from “grave and immediate” harm, including unconstitutional levels of violence, abuse, and systemic mismanagement.

The ruling, issued in the landmark Nunez v. City of New York case, appoints an independent “Nunez Remediation Manager” to take control over key safety and use-of-force functions at Rikers.

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3 Virginia State CO's stabbed by MS 13

 3 Virginia State CO's were stabbed by 6 inmates.

The Gateway Pundit is reporting:

“The attack occurred at approximately 9:45 am on Friday, May 2. Five of the six inmates involved in the attack are confirmed MS-13 gang members from El Salvador, who were in this country illegally. Each have been convicted of violet crimes including aggravated murder, first and second degree murder, and rape. The other inmate involved in the attack is a confirmed members of the Sureno 13 gang and from the United States, serving a sentence for second degree murder,” a statement from Virginia Department of Corrections Director Chad Dotson said.

Five officers were transported for outside medical treatment. Three officers, including two who were injured responding to the attack, suffered minor injuries. Two officers admitted to the hospital are in stable condition.

“Five of the individuals responsible for this senseless attack should never have been in this country in the first place,” VADOC Director Chad Dotson stated in the release.

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National Correctional Officer week

This year National Correctional Officer week begins May 4th. First proclaimed by President Ronald Reagan May 4, 1987.

Proclamation 5649 -- National Correctional Officers Week, 1987

May 4, 1987

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

No group of Americans has a more difficult or less publicly visible job than the brave men and women who work in our correctional facilities. Correctional officers who work in jails and prisons are currently responsible for the safety, containment, and control of more than 600,000 prisoners. Correctional officers must protect inmates from violence from fellow prisoners, while encouraging them to develop skills and attitudes that can help them become productive members of society after their release.

The general public should fully appreciate correctional officials' capable handling of the physical and emotional demands made upon them daily. Their profession requires careful and constant vigilance, and the threat of violence is always present. At the same time, these dedicated employees try to improve the living conditions of those who are being confined.

It is appropriate that we honor the correctional officers in all our institutions, at all levels of government, for their invaluable contributions to our society.

The Congress, by Public Law 99 - 611, has designated the week beginning May 3, 1987, as ``National Correctional Officers Week'' and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this event.

Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning May 3, 1987, as National Correctional Officers Week. I call upon all Americans to observe this week with appropriate activities and ceremonies.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and eleventh.

Ronald Reagan

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:42 a.m., May 5, 1987]

Note: The proclamation was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on May 5.

Date

05/04/1987