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Donna, did you work at Brushy Mountain?
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 479416" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p><a href="http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?s=3699914" target="_blank">Officer killed during prisoner escape at Roane Co. court house</a></p><p></p><p>The officer was Wayne "Cotton" Morgan who was a long-time employee of the Tennessee Department of Correction. This happened in 2005. The woman was the wife of the inmate - they met while she was working at the prison as a nurse. It doesn't happen very often but it does happen. The medical care in most of the prisons is now provided by private contractors who are not State employees and I believe that was the case here. Many times they bring in staff who have had little or no training on working in a prison and dealing with inmates and the rules of the institution and that can cause HUGE problems. And because they work for the contractor and not the State, some times all the rules, regulations and procedures don't seem very important to them.</p><p></p><p>The number of rules and policies in a prison is mind boggling but there are very good reasons for every single one of them. The number one rule for staff is that you are not allowed to have any kind of personal relationship with an inmate whatsoever and what happened here is exactly why! Inmates will actively look for an employees vulnerabilities and take full advantage of them, exactly what happened here. And the never-ending battle to keep cell phones out of prisons and jails is NOT to force them to use the expensive pre-paid phone systems, it's to prevent a tragedy like this from happening. They use those cell phones to harass victims, arrange drug deals and contraband smuggling, and even to arrange escapes which is what happened here. The job of transportation officer can be a very dangerous one, which is why great care is taken to maintain secrecy when they are being transported to outside court or for medical treatment or to another institution. They do NOT want to find an inmate's whole family waiting for them, armed, in the courthouse parking lot! Ideally, the inmate's family won't even know they have been to court until it's all over and they are safely returned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 479416, member: 1883"] [URL="http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?s=3699914"]Officer killed during prisoner escape at Roane Co. court house[/URL] The officer was Wayne "Cotton" Morgan who was a long-time employee of the Tennessee Department of Correction. This happened in 2005. The woman was the wife of the inmate - they met while she was working at the prison as a nurse. It doesn't happen very often but it does happen. The medical care in most of the prisons is now provided by private contractors who are not State employees and I believe that was the case here. Many times they bring in staff who have had little or no training on working in a prison and dealing with inmates and the rules of the institution and that can cause HUGE problems. And because they work for the contractor and not the State, some times all the rules, regulations and procedures don't seem very important to them. The number of rules and policies in a prison is mind boggling but there are very good reasons for every single one of them. The number one rule for staff is that you are not allowed to have any kind of personal relationship with an inmate whatsoever and what happened here is exactly why! Inmates will actively look for an employees vulnerabilities and take full advantage of them, exactly what happened here. And the never-ending battle to keep cell phones out of prisons and jails is NOT to force them to use the expensive pre-paid phone systems, it's to prevent a tragedy like this from happening. They use those cell phones to harass victims, arrange drug deals and contraband smuggling, and even to arrange escapes which is what happened here. The job of transportation officer can be a very dangerous one, which is why great care is taken to maintain secrecy when they are being transported to outside court or for medical treatment or to another institution. They do NOT want to find an inmate's whole family waiting for them, armed, in the courthouse parking lot! Ideally, the inmate's family won't even know they have been to court until it's all over and they are safely returned. [/QUOTE]
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