later. we never thought they wouldn t come back. this is one thing that they tortion our staff they put their life on the line every day. anything can go on. ambushes can be set up. what happened to cotton the unexpected can really go down at any time. prison officials believe hyatt used a smuggled cell phone to orchestrate the deadly ambush. cell phones are now considered dangerous contraband at brushy mountain. this is something the department has furnished us in the reason. a cell phone detector. microprocessore high crow circuits in all cell phones and detects them whether turned on or off. active or not. i m getting an indication right here. unfortunately, it also picks up walkman and things like that. 99 times out of 100 it might
time because anything can happen at any time. we don t want what happened to one of the best officers here to happen to somebody else. prison officials believe an advanced phone call made by a brushy mountain inmate ultimately led to the killing of veteran officer wayne cotton morgan. his job was to transport inmates in and out o of the facility to outside locations and other facilities. to court, hospital runs. funeral visits. and his main function was a transportation officer. one year prior to our visit, officer morgan was assigned to take inmate george hyatt to the rohn county courthouse. i knew the inmate for several years here at the institution and i wasn t your common every day inmate. very manipulative and could get things done and you not know that he was work the case unless you knew and watched him close. for officer morgan the trip
to the courthouse was uneventful. as they were exiting the court and getting into the security van to come back the inmates wife drove up behind the van and jumped out with a weapon and to assist in getting her husband to escape and she he shot officer morgan and they did escape. not wearing a bulletproof vest, officer morgan was killed. it was probably around 9:30, quarter til 10:00 and we were listening on the radio and a whole lot wasn t coming over but we all started realizing there was something majorly wrong. i was shocked. usually we don t show our feelings here at work but on that day on august 9, we not not too many people had control. hyatt and his wife jennifer were apartmen apprehended 36 hs