Alna selectmen Aug. 10 named longtime resident Darcie Hutchins to the planning board over past planning board chair Jeff Spinney and past selectman Linda Kristan. Earlier in the meeting, on another topic, Spinney started to make a point about the.
charges. alexandra field is in the courtroom and is getting to a live location to tell us what she saw. obviously you see joyce mitchell was emotional. let s bring in paul cowan who is here with us as well as gary hayward who worked as a prison guard and ultimately also served time in prison so has some experience on both sides. paul, the deal, 2 1/2 years to 7 years in prison, pleading guilty. what does the county get out of, it what does she get out of it? she got a great deal. i think her attorney negotiated a very, very good deal. let s face it, this is a very serious offense. these guys are murderers set loose on the community. they could have killed somebody. ound this deal she could be out in as little as approximately 2 1/2 years. it s more likely she ll serve more time but she s parole eligible after that short period of time. so that s a very, very good deal for her. now, she could do the entire seven years depending upon what the parole board things.
much of the information won t get out. as i wrote my book, there was a situation where an inmate got murdered, he got murdered and the officers tried to cover it up, but in the end the officers ended up paying a price to piggyback a lot of what goes on in the prisons that the world doesn t even know about and when it does get out, you get what they want you to know about the situation. and, gary, this all happens at the same time the focus has been how do they make sure a prison break like this never happens again or joyce mitchell being able to brick in these hacksaw blades and such could never happen again? i think i remember you saying you think there are going to be some reforms for a while and then back to business as usual. they have 12 people who are on administrative leave right now but what s next? honestly, they re going to put things in place for now. and what i mean by for shnow is it s not like every day a break