You REALLY need to see what happens in the BACKGROUND as Fox News reports from outside a prison

The Right Scoop ^ | June 14, 2015 | Posted by soopermexican

[txgirl4Bush]

I worked for the Texas prison system in the transportation division for 10 years. On the corner of every prison wall is a ‘picket’ (tower with an armed officer in it) and when your transporting inmates to different prisons the officers have to stop before entering inside the prison and put their weapons in a sock that the picket boss lowers down with a rope, they pull the weapons up into the picket and hold them there as no weapons are allow inside the prison unit. That appears what is going on here. The person who put this out there, has no knowledge of the prison sytem evidently.

[headstamp 2]

Pretty good movie, typical Bronson fare for the time.

[Uversabound]

It’s like medieval times. Yes, the prison is aptly named!

Well, they are going to let them out eventually anyway with society being so recist putting all those innocent people in prison.........you know.....

[ladyjane]

Some of the articles said they accessed the tunnels from the power house, which if I'm not mistaken is situated inside the prison walls

Actually the power house is outside the walls. It's about three blocks away.

The prisoners work in the power house. I assume it's trustees and they work with contractors. Not sure what they're doing now. The manhole cover is close to the power house.

[Uversabound]

Oh stop there are bitter clingers in NY too.

LOL

We have more to be bitter about being our vote gets cancelled....

[mass55th]

Thanks for the info. The prison I retired from was a Medium A (highest security for Mediums). It had originally been a psychiatric hospital, but renovated to house inmates. There was a steam tunnel system that ran under the prison, and in order to inspect them, you entered from inside one of the building basements within the facility. That prison had razor ribbon fencing, microwave intrusion system between the fences, 24 hour-a-day armed vehicle patrol, plus cameras mounted on the fences. The power house was outside there too, and convicts worked there as well, under the supervision of a civilian employee. He'd pick them up at the front gate area every morning, and bring them back before he went home. I guess having worked at Auburn prison, I assumed the power house was inside the wall like everything else.

Now I'm wondering about the info in the articles that claimed they escaped through the power house. If it's outside, then why would they need to access it? They must have gotten down into the tunnels from somewhere inside, and followed them until they reached a manhole outside the wall. The State isn't giving the media the actual escape route for security purposes. That cracks me up since Warden Andy was so free with having himself photographed in every possible pose, at various spots that those guys escaped through.

[ladyjane]

If I can rely on some of the news reports, they didn’t escape through the power house. They escaped through the tunnel that went under the wall down about 3 short blocs toward the power house.

They went up through a manhole before they got to the powerhouse. They had to. The powerhouse has security and people working there at night.

The media make stuff up. They don’t know what they’re talking about. Can’t blame them I guess. They’re stuck in Dannemora and it’s definitely not glamorous.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

People sneaking things illegally into a prison? Whoda thunkit?

“I heard you’re the guy that can get stuff . . .”

DANG!

[Safetgiver]

even the inmates get fed three meals a day....So do the guards as per Union agreement, I’d bet my last two bucks on.

[mass55th]

Well, fork over your last two bucks. We ate when we had the chance. There was no set lunch or supper break. It wasn’t contracted by the Union. At Auburn we’d eat when the inmates were locked in for the count, and before they were run to the messhall. That was a half-hour if we were lucky, and no guarantees you’d get to eat. When I was at Midstate in Marcy, NY, I’d stop on the way into work and get a salad or sub. Since I didn’t eat breakfast, and worked 3-11, I tried to eat as soon as I got to my supervisory area, because you never knew what the evening was going to bring. If I got a radio call to report to a certain area because of a problem, I had to set it aside for if, or when I finally got back to it. I’d be rich today if I got a $1 for every time my meal had been interrupted to respond to a radio call over those 25 years.

[mass55th]

"They’re stuck in Dannemora and it’s definitely not glamorous."

Auburn was the same. Clinton, Auburn, Attica, etc., were basically the main employers in those areas. Back when I first started there, they told us rookies that the people of Auburn had the choice of either a prison, or becoming the capital of the State. They chose the prison. LOL!

[Safetgiver]

I truly believe NY is the most irresponsible bureaucracy I’ve EVER heard. of. Even in the nuthouses there were no ways to smuggle in contraband, in PA. It happened, sure, but there were checks and balances.