back from the administration or from from albany, saying, you know we we re waking the inmates up too much. there is always a little push back for that. then at the 5:30 count or 6:00 count. the same thing. the bell goes on. the lights go on. and it is a live count. the inmates are sitting of in their bed or showing some sort of live movement. it has the gotten to the point now where i have been told from the new recruits that they re actually instruction new recruits now to not flash the flashlight in their eyes. they re instructing them to hit the floor and then just glance up. and then walk done to the next cell. that s just a problem. that s not the way it should be done. again. we are still learning so much about. not only what happened to the two guys but inside the prison. appreciate all of you, jeff dumas, keith provost, pat dunle
corrections. how much oversight is there within these prisons? oh, my goodness. they are daily that they re doing audits on reports that are submitted by each facility. atica, sing-sing, down the line, data reports on staffing. number of posts closed. overtime hours. unusual incidents. misbehavior reports. accidents. all that stuff is being submitted. it is supposed to be looked at by central office personnel of the rank of assistant commissioner. keith, what do you make of the security protocols. cells getting weekly inspections, tunnels getting inspected monthly. are those thing that should have been done a long time ago? i feel they should have been done a long time ago. i just want to quantify one thing. i place no blame on any single person. this has been a systematic
book.book.book! over 200 sites checked to find the best price. so don t just visit tripadvisor. book at tripadvisor. big changes to the prison in dannemora. new york state corrections department named a new superintendent. in addition every cell gets a weekly inspection. all tunnels inspected monthly instead of twice yearly before the escape. so many lingering doubts about this prison. joining a former sergeant there, jeff dumas, and keith provost, and patrick dunleavy. patrick, so according to records which were obtained from the
comes from a particular area or ethnicity. as a criminal. on the other hand if you become too soft hearted you ll become a sucker, somebody like gene palmer one day felt sorry for an inmate decided to help them. there is a balance. a fine line between being a correction officer, firm, fair, consistent. opposed to hard nosed cynic or sucker. keith, these guys were able to do a practice run we learned the night before the actual escape. left clothes in their bed made it look like they were sleeping. you worked the overnight shift as a correction officer there, can you describe the process of night counts and are officers allowed, can they go into individual cells if they think something is suspicious? no, not on night shift. we would have to call the sergeant, lieutenant down. what happens on night shift, we come in. we start our shift for the 12:00 count.
weekly inspection. all tunnels inspected monthly instead of twice yearly before the escape. so many lingering doubts about this prison. joining a former sergeant there, jeff dumas, and keith provost, and patrick dunleavy. patrick, so according to records which were obtained from the prison. corrections officers have been raising concerns for years about lax security. specifically weaknesses in the tailor shop where both worked and along with joyce mitchell. what do you make of that? well i think the reports you are referring to were based on labor management meetings that took place at the facility level. i believe those probably also took place at the executiveen in albany. labor management meetings between the bargaining groups in the prison. bringing up their concerns. management has to address them or state why they don t think