Posted on 06/15/2017 5:27:44 PM PDT by Nextrush
A corrections employee committed suicide Tuesday at the Nevada Southern Detention Center in Pahrump.
The private detention facility, which houses federal inmates awaiting trial, disclosed the suicide in a statement Wednesday that said the employee 'sadly took his own life'.
The employee's name and position have not been released to the public. Detention center staff members found his body after responding to a fire alarm that went off around 6pm. No fire was discovered. Staff contacted emergency medical services,, who pronounced the employee dead at the scene.
A source with knowledge of the investigation said tear gas or some other chemical irritant was set off in the room before the suicide. The death was the result of a gunshot wound, the source said........
CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America, is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers throughout the country, including the Nevada Southern Detention Center in Pahrump. The facility currently is housing notorious anti-federalist rancher Cliven Bundy and his band of more than a dozen like-minded supporters who are awaiting trial on charges resulting from the 2014 armed standoff in Bunkerville.
The corrections company said it is cooperating fully with local law enforcement as it investigates the suicide. The Nye County Sheriff's Office, whose jurisdiction includes Pahrump, is investigating. The Clark County coroner's office will determine the official cause of death.......
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Activist Gavin Seim, who helps the prisoners housed there and maintains contact with others talking to those on the inside reposted this comment on his Facebook page from John Lamb.
John Lamb's Facebook page read in part:
"....in the last couple of days, a guard is reported to have supposedly committed suicide in the armory of the prison....."
A 93 year doctor, confined to a wheelchair, was put in solitary confinement along with Mel Bundy and two other Bunkerville prisoners in the last 24 hours or so.
The 93 year old said he was sick and needed medical attention. "I need medical attention. I'm sick. I'm not feeling well" were among Dr. Henri Wetselaar's simple requests.
The other prisoners got involved in asking that he be helped and all four ended up in solitary.
Did he shoot himself in the back of the head?
Many corrections facilities are exceedingly grim places to work at for long periods of time. It takes a special type of employee to do this work. Same as with police work, or in a locked psychiatric facility. Not for everyone or every family.
Who knows what happened? The guard set off tear gas and shot themselves? Maybe the guard’s shooting set it off.
More questions than answers and will we know the real answers?
Pahrump was Art Bell’s hangout.
These guards at this prison are private contractor employees working for less than unionized employees at other jails do.
The Teamsters represent jail guards at my county lockup.
The author obviously does not know the mean of the word federalist.
Anti-statist or anti-big government or any other number of similar terms would be a better choice. (Even the currently popular anti-fascist)
Yeah, I think Art is back in Pahrump and was on the radio locally in Vegas in recent years.
There is a Twitter link here:
https://www.twitter.com/artbell51
The media wonder why so many ridicule and or despise them.
I’ve been trained in journalism and played my roles in the mainstream media in an earlier life.
It made more sense back then but the more extreme left-wing elements along with the pushed up bosoms and exposed legs were just around the corner.
I got out of that business as it went further into the abyss.
“Many corrections facilities are exceedingly grim places to work at for long periods of time.”
They are prisons, not some PC correctional facilites. The criminals are housed there so that they can’t commit crimes in the society. The sooner they are called what they really are, the sooner this resolves.
Prison guards sound more relevant to the job title than some PC correctional officer.
Several times?
“The sooner they are called what they really are, the sooner this resolves.”
Yeah, especially that 93 YO doctor there.
“especially that 93 YO doctor there.”
May I ask how a 93 yo doctor ended up in the prison?
Apparently the doctor, who is a veteran born in the Netherlands, has been convicted of writing scripts for pain killers.
They are holding him in jail even though he hasn’t been sentenced yet.
That’s scheduled for next week in Las Vegas.
Jerry Delemus, co chairman of Veterans for Trump last year in New Hampshire and recently called a “vigilante bully” when sentenced to 87 months for Bunkerville, has been friends with the prisoner they call “Doc”.
I know nothing of his case, but it is uncommon for a federal prisoner to be out pending sentencing. They usually immediately revoke bail and remand them to the marshalls.
I am VERY sceptical of ALL jail suicides.
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