rules and have all the power. j.c., your locker is open! they got to handcuff the radio. you have nothing. you have yourself. you are your own weapon in this war. richard penn has spent the last ten days in disciplinary confinement due to an assault on two officers. he has been moved from general population to a single-man cell. he is on heightened security and must wear a spit mask any time he is out of his cell. sergeant carter was one of the two officers involved in the assault. when i ask an inmate a question, i expect an answer. if i tell them to do something, i expect them to do it. this is not a place where things are optional. the assault occurred after penn had been escorted by sergeant carter and another officer to medical for some tests. while we are in medical, inmate penn the whole time sat there giving me this evil look. and i didn t understand what was going on. i told the other officer i was with, when we get back to the dorm, i want to talk to this inmate,
safety is utmost concern. when violence does erupt, officers are left with no option but to extract inmates from their cells by force. shoe facility captain r.j. andrews oversees cell extractions on a weekly basis. we do wear protective gear in a cell extraction or use of force, calculated-type use of force. but on some occasions, staff do get injured. i have seen occasions where staff have been injured to point of broken arms. i have seen staff receive feces thrown in their face. i have seen staff where they actually had their headgear broken into pieces because they was hit so hard when they entered the cell. after extracting him from a shower cell in the crisis unit, officers are transporting this inmate to the shoe for destroying prison property. he beat out a window with a handle. we had to go inside the cell, take him out. this is a spit mask. it s required by our institution so the inmate does not spit on us. this inmate will have to pay for the broken window and will
this is a spit mask. it s required by our institution so the inmate does not spit on us. this inmate will have to pay for the broken window and will have up to 90 days shoe time added to his sentence. while three months in the shoe may seem like a long time, some prisoners spend years within these walls. when i first got here, i thought, oh, wow, this is going to be a world of hell. and sure enough. it s been it s been a world of hell. chris samuelson, originally convicted of weapons possession, has spent two of his four years at corcoran in the shoe. you got to have a strong mind to be back here for a number of years like i have been, you know? but it s broken people back here. but, hey, you know, all i can do is just keep going. the stress of working in this environment has mandated that officers never work the hole for more than two months at a time.
it kind of hits home but you have to understand that this is the job and that s something you have to put up with every day in here. schmidt next aims his insults at warden ivey and his wife. you ve got to do better than that. you can t get me upset. officers remove schmidt s spit mask and place him in a holding cell until he s ready to be compliant. they re coming. they can t stop me. they made me what i am. rather than let time in the restraint chair alter his behavior as it does for most inmates, schmidt attempts to escape its bonds.
sprayed him. he sprayed, they sprayed me in my eyes and that s what slowed me down. had he had a weapon, there was many times i was open, and where any kind of vital body parts i had were, could have been, attacked, you know? i could have been killed, you know? i don t want to beep theatrical. but if he had something that we had not found, he could, could have hurt us severely. penn, now placed in the spit mask, will be escorted to a hearing with the institutional classification team. they will decide if penn should be reclassified as a close management one inmate, meaning he will be housed alone in the prison s most restrictive high-security housing unit. the hearing is penn s one chance to change their minds. recommendation is post man one based on an assault on a