over the years, we ve learned that attacks on officers 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, at that time he was on a strip cell. i think at that time it was 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 recs and showers to do. chow to serve, md sick call, so on and so forth. some days like today get a 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? okay? she come up here and talking to me and started, talked to me, well you [ bleep ], you called me a [ bleep ]. and i said, what? 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 don t need your [ bleep ]. i ll take some [ bleep ] and i ll ob your ass every time you come [ bleep ]. your mother easy, easy, easy, easy. we put him on the wall first. put him on the wall, face the wall. we want him face the wall. we don t want him turning his head, getting mouthy. 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. [ bleep ]. face the wall.
face the wall. why don t you just [ bleep ]. face the wall. why don t you [ bleep ]. [ bleep ] i m tired of your [ bleep ], [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. stand still. mccombs freely admitted to our producer by the time the officers put him back in his cell he was looking for any possible way to hurt them. i just grabbed some [ bleep ] water out of the toilet, started bombing. 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.
face the wall. why don t you just [ bleep ]. face the wall. why don t you [ bleep ]. [ bleep ] i m tired of your [ bleep ], [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. standstill. mccombs freely admitted to our producer by the time the officers put him back in his cell he was looking for any possible way to hurt them. i just grabbed some [ bleep ] water out of the toilet, started bombing. 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.