rumor mill is that he owed someone some money. we re hearing that he owed the victim some money at one time. stafford and the victim used to be friends, but over the last six months or so, they ve slowly separated and went their own way. somebody seemed to think i owed them some money. i don t know. i think he was in debt themselves. and to get the bill collectors, so to speak, off of them, i think they just up and said, hey, that guy right there owes me some money. stafford said there was two guys that jumped him, which we still haven t proved he got beat up. we ll never know that. at this point, i ve got enough information between the witness statements, the video and everything to go ahead and charge mr. stafford with class a-102 battery. that s a violation of our adult disciplinary procedures. we ll put together the case for the prosecutor s office. we ll refer it to them, let them review it and decide whether he wants to present criminal charges. the guy that caused all this
i was stabbed ten times. i think i won the fight, he won the war. stafford received a year in the hole despite ellerman s refusal to cooperate with the investigation. it s all part of the convict code. i m a convict. you don t tell nothing. that s just the way it is. i mean i ve got to live here the rest of my life. i don t want anybody thinking that i m weak, that i m going to talk, that i m going to say anything about anything. i m not mad at the guy. if more people would do what he did instead of this poking and running, this would be a different prison, and i m sort of impressed that he went that far. he could have cut me and ran. i didn t know he had a knife while he was cutting me. i didn t know. he had a knife. how did you not know? i was busy. i was fighting.
hard way, you re going to do that on your own, man. if you get into this anymore, i m for real done, man. you got anything down there? what do you need? food. i ll send you some up later. just shut up, man. just stay out of trouble. you talk too much. stay out of trouble. stay out of trouble. love you, bub. see you later, man. straight idiot, man. if i could hit him in the mouth right now, i would. i let him down. how much time harrison spends in the hole will be determined in a disciplinary board hearing just like the one awaiting michael ray stafford for allegedly stabbing pat ellerman. best-case scenario would be that they forget about this. stafford is assigned an inmate advocate to help him present his case at the hearing. did you get a copy of the investigator s report? no. here s what i would say. no matter what the outcome is, i would plead not guilty to it just for the simple fact, if you don t i thought i already pled not guilty. but she s goin
a vicious stabbing has just occurred at indiana state prison. the victim with deep slashes across his neck, stomach, arm, and leg, has been rushed to a hospital. the suspected assailant, michael ray stafford, has been brought into internal affairs for questioning. i jumped on him earlier today. were you physically assaulted at that time? yeah. then what happened? i heard the guy talking while i was waiting for chow, talking about watch what happens to him when we come out. later i heard him say, i killed the little bastard. is this the same guy that you got in a fight with that was talking? i m not really even sure. okay. then what happened? that s when when all hell broke loose. well, who had the knives? i don t know nothing. you don t know nothing about two weapons sitting there on my desk? look, i ve already been beat up once today. yeah. i heard people talk about killing somebody when the doors come open. i come out to defend myself.
you didn t have to give them a name. you didn t know who did it. and if i d have done that, where would i be now? i don t know. yeah, you do. you work here. you know what would have happened if i d done that. anything else you want to add to your statement? no. no. it s not doing me any good. based on that case file, i am going to find you guilty of battery, give you a year. 9-22-08 to 9-21-09. take 180 days. demote from you credit class one to credit class two and give you an appeal form so you can appeal that. assigned to a year of disciplinary segregation, stafford will be locked up 23 hours per day, lose some of his personal property, and not be allowed contact with general population inmates. i m going to be living like an animal, in a cage with nothing. absolutely nothing. over what? because somebody tried to take my [ bleep ] away from me. i protected myself. this is what happens. that guy was coming at me with a weapon. i had to do something.