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I know someone who was a prison guard in Arizona for some time, in a level 4 yard (mostly convicted rapists and violent assault, very few murderers). He was stationed in this prison as his first assignment after 3 months of training. He found the state of the prison's management disturbing in general, and he told me every night during the time he worked there about his shift and this is the story that left him the most shaken: An inmate (call him steve) owed a prominent mexican gang in his yard a drug debt of about $10,000. He was due to be released on probation in about 5 months which put him between a rock and a hard place. He was a pretty average guy for the most part, that is to say he wasn't known for being outrageously muscular or violent. He was a gang member on the outside, probably got arrested for assault at which point all of his warrants caught up with him and he had to do his time, a few years. Having run up this debt of $10,000, for whatever reason, meant he had to pay before he got out. It's not unusual to acquire this level of debt on the inside because: where would you go? You're stuck there, and you're going to pay, one way or another. Word got out that his sentence has been reduced, which made him a marked man. The gang to whom he owed $10,000 would give him 3 choices- 1) Perform a dirty deed (most likely murder) which may or may not clear the entire debt but would definitely create the possibility of a life sentence. 2) Become a sex slave (again, in 5 months this may not pay the whole debt plus you would be forfeiting any protection that any other inmates may provide you in general), and almost guaranteeing the contraction of a host of STDs including HIV. 3) Die as an example of what happens when you try to escape your debt (probably at the hands of another debtor) He could tell the prison counselors that he owed a drug debt and his life was in danger, in which case they would try to move you to another yard or facility, but that would take time and most likely the gang would make it's move by then. So he decided to kill a guard. Killing a guard would get him moved immediately to a solitary holding facility where the gang could not get to him. Most likely his crime would make him eligible to move to another facility designed to handle his new status as a murderer and he would likely be able to negotiate and transfer that would put him out of range of the gang he owed money to. Even if he got a life sentence, he would have a rep for assaulting a guard and would have his debt effectively cleared. Steve chose a 60 year-old guard that was left alone with 5 'trusted' inmates that were cleaning the facility's kitchen. It took 30 seconds. Steve slammed the guard against the wall, knocking the wind out of him and let him fall to the floor. Steve then began stomping on his face as hard as he could. The other inmates, knowing they would all take the blame for the assault surrounded the guard and began kicking him viciously until another guard heard the commotion and emptied a can of mace in their faces. The guard has been in a coma for 6 weeks and is not likely to recover, as his skull was cracked in multiple places during the attack. He leaves behind a wife, a son and daughter and 5 grandchildren. Last we heard Steve was still waiting for his court date, but multiple guards indicated that they would be letting the gang he owed know where he would be staying for the rest of his natural life as retaliation for the 50 year old guard.
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Jul 26, 2010 23:02
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