WA penitentiary: 4 units still locked down
WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) - A Washington state Corrections Department spokeswoman says four units of the Washington State Penitentiary remain on lockdown a day after three correctional officers were injured in an altercation with multiple inmates.
Spokeswoman Shari Hall said late Wednesday that preliminary reports indict Tuesday's assault was gang-related.
She says the three officers suffered "significant injuries." They have been released from a hospital and are recovering at home.
Superintendent Steve Sinclair commended the officers.
No inmates were seriously injured. Hall said earlier that nine inmates from the prison's West Complex were segregated after the incident.
The West Complex is a close-custody unit that houses about 800 offenders, including the prison's gang units.
Spokeswoman Shari Hall said late Wednesday that preliminary reports indict Tuesday's assault was gang-related.
She says the three officers suffered "significant injuries." They have been released from a hospital and are recovering at home.
Superintendent Steve Sinclair commended the officers.
No inmates were seriously injured. Hall said earlier that nine inmates from the prison's West Complex were segregated after the incident.
The West Complex is a close-custody unit that houses about 800 offenders, including the prison's gang units.
Are you people serious? Are there dangerous criminals that should NEVER get out into the populations, sure there are. But there are a lot more that are there to serve out there sentence and back into society. THIS is the punishment they were sentenced to ~ being locked away from family and loved ones. But that's not how it goes. They are locked away and further punished on an hour by hour basis by these âcorrectional officersâ that are far too intelligent. What a Joke. Most if not all of these C. Oâs have a High School Diploma at best. Most have authority issues and take it out readily on inmates. The rules do not apply to them, its do as I say not as I do. Iâm sure you remember the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, and that you are aware that the people who carried out this abuse were none other than Prison Guards back home.
So as you lump all prisoners into one category, just remember you too could be one bad situation away from being stuck in that same hell hole.
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Hopefully the guards can "make it right".
@MidnightRambler, Correctional Officers are far more professional than you seem to think. They would not do anything that an inmate could try to sue the state for. No way are they going to see an inmate get paid by the taxpayer for some little act of retaliation. Especially when they know Washington courts just settle out of court when they can.
Why are these worthless people still alive and we're paying for it? Get the scum off the planet and these problems will be a thing of the past. No real punishment for crimes, criminals will keep doing it. Anyone that kills or rapes should die right off.Â
Check Russian prison. Inmates are Inmates not allowed to freely do as they please. Multiple armed gaurds escort Inmates around with attack dogs close by. They know how to handle human waste.
Once these guys are no longer on lock down, they are going to be walking around with their chests out like a rooster. Everyone is going to think that they are bad a** for sending officers to the hospital. What needs to be done with them now, is take everything away, and I mean everything. No more visits, phone calls, commissary, and t.v. Make them earn the respect back from all officers and slowly reward them with this stuff. They need to have everything removed from them and them to miss it and learn responsibility by earning it back. The only thing that is happening now is, they are lock down with their gang buddy, and only has the respect from inmates. Make it where no one will do what these guys did.
they will be out to make victims out of unarmed unprepared untrained civilians. Shoe load and carry often unknown when you can be a hero at a mall or in your own drive way. Double tap.
 @Just my say Better yet, throw them in "the Hole" with bread, water, and a bucket for "personal hygiene" for a year or so... after that they can work in the mines on the chaingang for another 10 years.
Make "an example" of them all.
Ship this human waste to a Russian prison thats where prisoners are treated like prisoners. Not guests of the state.
Oh, they'll go to "The Hole" alright. And nowdays the Washington Staff Assult Task Force is taking these dirtbags back into the courts and charging them with assult. They will all get about two years in an Intensive Management Unit, where they do only get out of their cell for about an hour a day, and then they will have civil charges against them and any money they make will be garnished for the rest of their lives and the officers will get a few bucks every month.Â
 @TheTruncheon Too many people will cry inhuman, but I really think that would work. From what I understand, Japan you are in a cell 23 hours a day and only served fish heads and rice. Maybe we should copy them.Â
Since they're locked down, for being idiots AGAIN.......flood the cell block with gasoline, and hand someone a cigarette.
Good Lord, even in Prison. How sickening.
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"...preliminary reports indict Tuesday's assault was gang-related."
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Someday this simple suggestion will be, finally, taken seriously:
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More "thugs" hangin', less "gangs" bangin'...
Crow?? ChunKing?? You guys OK??
That is an awful job. Thanks for doing it, people.
 @Beau's Mom I knew a guy who was a corrections officer. No, it's not the most fun job, but he seemed to enjoy it no less than any other job.