little more exciting. we had an offender who became belligerent in the shower. the offender was mccombs who told us he had good reason to be upset. try to get me to take a shower. but they don t have no soap or nothing. i said, ma am, i just came from the other side, it was nasty where i come from. i need something to wash, a bar of soap. she s talking crazy to me. right. she come up here and talking to me and started, talked to me, well you [ bleep ], you called me a [ bleep ], and i said wait a minute. i said, i just asked you for some [ bleep ], and i snapped on her. he threatened to kill everybody out there. staff and all. when we tried to get him to come out of the shower, he was refusing, and started throwing toilet water on myself and several other staff members. i got it all through my face. all down my back. it was toilet water. our cameras were present when
mccombs was moved from his cell. but because he is so dangerous, we were restricted to shooting from the unit s security center. i ll be on your ass every time you come [ bleep ]. i will need your hand, i tell you something, you start throwing [ bleep ] water and i will be on your [ bleep ] every time you come through the seven! easy. easy. easy. put him on the wall first. we say put him on the wall. have him face the wall. we want him facing the wall. we don t want him turning his head, getting mouthy and this and that. that s when you get spit on. we want his nose to the wall. i don t want to talk to him. he can talk to the wall. face the wall. turn around. face the wall. [ bleep ] sit up there and talk to him. face the wall. [ bleep ]. why don t you [ bleep ]. [ bleep ] why don t you just [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. i m tired of your [ bleep ]. stand still. mccombs freely admitted to our producer by the time the officers put him back in his cell he was looking for a
i just grabbed some water out of the toilet started bombing them. i am just getting tired of what is going on with these people, man. if they don t get me out of here, then i probably will might end up killing somebody or they might kill me. today, mccombs remains incarcerated and has been transferred to another state prison. i figured that if it was going to happen, it would happen within the first year. in 2004, karen talley was in her sixth year as correctional officer at indiana state prison when she was so brutally attacked by an inmate, she nearly died. we met her two years later. you know, they all know me. the guys know me. i used to work in the intake unit when the new arrivals would come in. they know me. i ll be all right. never imagined it for all these years later. never imagined it.
are an all-too-frequent occupational hazard. when we visited indiana s wabash valley correctional facility, officers in the security housing unit were dealing with the latest in a string of violent incidents involving convicted burglar, douglas mccombs. since he s been inside the shu, he s been on strip cell. when you see the offender coming out of his cell only wearing his underwear, he was on strip cell for resisting staff or trying to assault staff before. we have had trouble with him on about every range we ve put him on so far. i can t get along with people too much. especially when they re evil. one of the people mccombs claims was evil, officer sachen. an average day in the shu can be pretty mundane. you have rec and showers to do. chow to serve, md sick call, so on and so forth. some days like today get a
there are those that are dangerous people, that you have to be very cautious of when you interact with them. inmate douglas mccombs, who is serving time for burglary, has spent three months in the security housing unit at wabash. since he s been inside the shu, he s been in a stripped cell. when you see a offender come out of the cell, and all he s wearing is his underwear, at that time he was on strip cell. we had trouble with him on about every range we put him on so far. say, i got a mental disorder, or they say i do. they say i got a mental disorder. they say schizophrenic disorder. i can t get along with people too much, especially when they re evil. officer sachtjen has been working in the shu since 1997. an average day in the shu can be pretty mundane. you have recs and showers to do, md, sick call and so on and so forth. some days like today do get a little more exciting.