Ga. Gov. Sonny Perdue says he will look into a the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s report on recent violence at several of the state’s prisons.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the “string of violence” — which includes three deaths — was big enough to be brought to Perdue’s attention.
“The governor is waiting to see the GBI’s reports,” said Dan McLagan, Perdue’s communication director.
There were three killings of inmates at three prisons in March: Douglas Wren at Coastal State Prison on March 4, Robert Hollis at Georgia State Prison on March 11 and Paul Phillips at Calhoun State Prison on March 27. Yolanda Thompson, a spokespwoman for the Department of Corrections said there were five slayings at state prisons — including the three this year– since 2005.
In addition to the killings, there were two other prison incidents in March. On March 15, a guard assaulted a handcuffed inmate at Calhoun State Prison, and five guards were either fired or demoted on March 23 after beating an inmate in January.
Thompson told the AJC that violent attacks by either inmates or employees will not be tolerated but that it is hard to manage convicted felons in the state’s prison system. About 60 percent are considered violent. Out of a population of 57,792, approximately 7,000 are serving life sentences and approximately 8,000 are considered mentally ill.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI want to know what can be done a prison violance in the state of GA. The prison are so short of officers, but the system covers this up on paper work myself and many officers have seen this first hand it is mostly Officers beating inmates and the wardens letting it go on when they get good officers that go by the book they fire them, or tell lies and the the officer fired we have seen this and we have pages of this information we have tryed to do things right if a officer gets hurt on the job they fire them the prisons where curtain wardens have worked these wardens push the officer so hard that they do not know who would back them most the time when a fight breaks out you get more help form the inmates than you do the officers I want to here back from someone so we will know what to do.
The vast majority of violence is inmate on inmate, first, then inmate on staff second. The fantasy is that prison is filled with men who are just trying to be better people and rehabilitate themselves. Nothing could be further from the the truth. Inmates are more psychopathic than ever and attack staff and each other because the only thing that will happen to them, in most cases, is that they will be given a disciplinary report and locked down for a few weeks. They don’t fear this. In the old days, there was more order because violent men who ignored the rules of society learned to obey the nightstick but now these same violent, predatory men have nothing to genuinely deter their behavior. Most people would be sickened to know what the men who raped their wives and molested their children are allowed to get away with.
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