when the inmates drug chamberlain behind a privacy wall and out of view from the guard s station and, you know, savagely beat him to death. he was incarcerated for what we would consider a low-level sex-related offense. possession of child pornography. there s an inmate culture here that crimes against children are viewed as something that s rather despicable. so those inmates are commonly targeted for violence. but the reality in 2006 was we just didn t have the housing space or we were trying to juggle our inmate population to put him in a position. so what we did with him is we told him, you know, don t talk about your charges, don t talk about the crimes that you may have done or committed, you know, try and fit in, be nondescript. petrovich claims it wasn t the inmates who initially targeted chamberlain but two deputies who are no longer with the department. the cops had pulled me out and told me. they said hit him from the neck down and, you know, make sure he doesn t walk ou
only killing in the jail in more than a decade. at the time, petrovich, in jail for receiving stolen property, was considered a leader among the white inmates at the theo lacy jail facility. we re standing in f barracks, the west side in the theo lacy facility, and this is the scene of a pretty gruesome homicide that occurred in 2006. it was the murder of inmate john derek chamberlain. it occurred in october. and it occurred over in d cube when the inmates drug chamberlain behind a privacy wall and out of view from the guard s station and, you know, savagely beat him to death. he was incarcerated for what we would consider a low-level sex-related offense. possession of child pornography. there s an inmate culture here that crimes against children are viewed as something that s rather despicable. so those inmates are commonly targeted for violence. but the reality in 2006 was we just didn t have the housing
so those inmates are commonly targeted for violence. but the reality in 2006 was we just didn t have the housing space or we were trying to juggle our inmate population to put him in a position. so what we did with him is we told him, you know, don t talk about your charges, don t talk about the crimes that you may have done or committed, you know, try and fit in, be nondescript. petrovich claims it wasn t the inmates who initially targeted chamberlain but two deputies who are no longer with the department. the cops had pulled me out and told me. they said hit him from the neck down and, you know, make sure he doesn t walk out. they didn t say kill him. i never said kill him. no one said kill him. they said go beat him up because he was a pervert. a later investigation was unable to confirm that the deputies told the inmates about chamberlain s charges. but what came out of the
at the time, petrovich, in jail for receiving stolen property, was considered a leader among the white inmates at the theo lacy jail facility. we re standing in f barracks, the west side in the theo lacy facility, and this is the scene of a pretty gruesome homicide that occurred in 2006. it was the murder of inmate john derek chamberlain. it occurred in october. and it occurred over in d cube when the inmates drug chamberlain behind a privacy wall and out of view from the guard s station and, you know, savagely beat him to death. he was incarcerated for what we would consider a low-level sex-related offense. possession of child pornography. there s an inmate culture here that crimes against children are viewed as something that s rather despicable. so those inmates are commonly targeted for violence. but the reality in 2006 was we just didn t have the housing space or we were trying to juggle our inmate population to
justice department is now heading up? president mentioned it in the state of the union, a very high profile place to launch something like that, schneiderman brought on as a co-chair in that. do you have high hopes? i have high hopes. i haven t had particularly high hopes in many of the areas in the housing space, because a hot of policy has under-wheel manied. schneiderman knows of what he speaks. i have a feeling he knows where bodies are buried in ways that others don t who have gone in this. but also, i think he s coming at this with an authority, coming from the level of the states where he gets what is happening on the ground particularly in new york with the market. he might not have gotten as much of that from the justice department. jared, one last question, on the jobs numbers today, you wrote on your blog, this is a critical message for policy makers, we have momentum on the most important economic issue to the american people, jobs. let s not screw it up.