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Security Oversights and Complacency Set the Stage For Killers' Escape
HughPickens.com writes: The NY Times reports that although no single lapse or mistake in security enabled two killers to break out of the Clinton Correctional Facility two weeks ago, it is now clear that an array of oversights, years in the making, set the stage for the prison break and for the ensuing manhunt. According to the Times, a sense of complacency had taken hold that in some ways might have been understandable: "There had not been an escape from the 170-year-old prison in decades, and officials say no one had ever broken out of the maximum-security section. ... 'As the months go by, years go by, things get less strict,' says [retired corrections officer] Keith Provost. ... [U]nlike many prisons and jails across the country, there are no video cameras on the cellblocks at the Clinton facility that might have detected suspicious activity." And although prison rules forbid putting sheets across cell bars to obstruct viewing, in practice, officers say, inmates frequently were allowed to hang sheets for lengthy periods. Officials say there is a good chance that the two men had been at work on their plan for weeks, maybe months. Night after night, the authorities have come to believe, the two men stuffed their beds with crude dummies, slipped out of holes they had cut in the back of their cells and climbed down five stories using the piping along the walls. They then set to work inside the tunnels under the prison, spending hours preparing their path of escape before returning to their cells unobserved.
No contemporary prison break has reminded me so much of the 1962 breakout from Alcatraz (theories on survival aside).
nuff said
Life is not for the lazy.
usually, it involves an inside job. "social engineering"
Convicts usually don't have much of a plan for when they get out so will likely be caught.
We are fortunate that most criminals are epically stupid because law enforcement and correctional officers are generally quite dumb.
Rigorous audits, some coming at unannounced times, that will collect the logs, records and surveillance tapes for the past several weeks and then go analyze them. With authority superior to the local prison officials.
The problem is that nobody is ever rewarded for averting a catastrophe that nobody suspects has a non-negligible chance of arising. Before 9/11, the chairwoman of Massport, which operated Boston's Logan Airport from which two planes were hijacked, made it clear that her #1 priority was to get passengers through the airport and onto the planes as quickly as possible. It probably should've been the Federal government (now DHS/TSA) that has to step in and overrule the local administrators in these types of situations.
If Hillary can't even keep people in her own private prison, how can we expect her to run the country?
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I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
We care because of the crimes that were committed.
No you don't. You care because the media keeps bringing it up.
Are you really suggesting that somebody who subjected you to a criminal act like that shouldn't be punished for what he did, and that he shouldn't be isolated to try to prevent such a crime from happening again?
So when that occurs in prison, what do you suggest we do?
Try asking how many people have been raped in that prison.
That's why they have to put the sheets over the bars.
Does anyone else find it odd that the press is reporting where the police will be searching next for the escapees? Who are they trying to help here?
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That's the best analogy here. Sooner or later you get a bit too complacent, and then BANG! Every system is flawed as long as it has humans in it. What we need are robot police and prison guards, errrrr overlords! Yeah! lol.
"Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem." -- Jefferson
What "corruption and abuse"? Do you have citations?
Police and prison guards are unionized everywhere — including countries much further down your list...
You seem to imply, the higher incarceration rate is automatically bad — without offering any evidence or even arguments to support the implication.
Maybe, our police are just more effective at catching the criminals? Or, perhaps, our lifestyle gives more opportunities to screw-up — such as by stealing from a house left unlocked?
Note, that I don't know, why we lock so many people up, but if you want to claim, that it is some sort of "conspiracy" — I'd like to hear some arguments and see supporting numbers/statistics...
Why? Is crime too low in your opinion? Are there too many innocent behind bars?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
They thought the google street view cars are on the prowl catching escaped prisoners. May be that caused the laxed security. "Where can they hide? Google will find them!" must have been the attitude of the wardens. http://www.psfk.com/2012/08/un...
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'As the months go by, years go by, things get less strict,'
Sounds like if they had kept doing things the way they'd always done them, the two guys wouldn't have escaped.
Hmm, I guess "we've always done it that way" is a good reason to at least think before changing things.*
* However, in many cases, once you do think about things, you realize that the old way is no longer the best way. But in the case of the operations at this particular prison....
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...is that NY has proven it has no place to put Cuomo when they finally convict him of being the most corrupt governor in NY history - which, in view of the competition, is one hell of an accomplishment. But he burnished those credentials right in the midst of the escape when he demanded the police drop everything to give him a tour of the prison and then held everything up so he could take reporters on that same tour to get the right slant down on it. That's why the prison authorities are hopping mad, and that's why the bastards apparently have made it to New Zealand while Cuomo fiddled.
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I suggest we keep them isolated but there are many people complaining about administrative custody.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Yeah! Fuck due process!
That's the only interesting question about the Clinton Correctional Facility.
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conviction in a court of law AND proper appeal process that doesn't drag, that's is due process. News for you, the Founding Fathers were ok with due process that ended in death sentence.