Unreported Crimes Of
The Prison Staff


By: Frank Frederick

The following slightly edited email was received from a former Pennsylvania prisoner, what we call a former offender. The message very briefly outlines a few of the many crimes committed by the prison staff. It reminds us of the apparently illegal and unlicensed lottery which was recently conducted by the staff inside the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. A televised report said that over $10,000.00 was grossed in just a few weeks and cash prizes were awarded to staff gamblers.

We have invited the author of the email to write a more detailed piece identifying the official offenders and elaborating on the MANY legal abuses by the prison guards.

"Nowhere [on your website] do I see anything on illegal gambling done by the [prison] staff. I know of several different cases in one prison alone.

"On Sundays, there would be (on the average) two $400.00 pools on the Nascar races. On paydays there was a complete staff check-pool and once a month they had a 50/50 drawing for [the staff] picnic. [On the picnic,] the inmates did most of the work and most of the food [was stolen] from the inmates' food locker.

"This doesn't count the food items that the staff carried home. It also doesn't count the major [of the guard] who slipped on the ice and broke his hip while he was pumping [state] gas into his personal car at 10 PM.

"Or, the guard who got caught growing and bringing drugs into the prison. Two months later, [he] was working at another prison, at least according to other guards.

"There was one guard that used to say [that] when they brought the drug dogs in [to search the prison], if they really wanted to find drugs, then they should go to the guards' dressing room. But, that never happened."

 


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