🚨Trump golf club gunman found guilty after assassination🚨attempt; tries to stab self in court

Jurors on Tuesday delivered a guilty verdict for Ryan Routh on all charges after he attempted to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach golf club last September.

After the verdict was read, Routh reportedly appeared to try to stab himself in the neck with a pen before four U.S. Marshals restrained him.

"Don’t do anything. I will get you out. What the f---, f---, he didn’t hurt anybody. This is not fair. This is all rigged – you guys are a--holes." The jury was still in the room at the time.

Routh, 59, was charged on five federal criminal counts, including attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer, and multiple firearms offenses.

Jurors deliberated for several hours before returning to the court with a verdict.

"You know as well as I he’s going into suicide precautions when he goes back to jail. Still, I’ve seen a few that managed it anyways."

Most likely suicide watch. Don't know which Federal lock-up he will be sent to.

I know the way we handled suicide-watch when I worked for NY State Corrections. It had to be ordered by a doctor. We conducted one on one, 24 hour watch in a stripped-down segregation cell in our box, where he could be visible at all times, or a stripped-down infirmary room that could be locked, with the inmate visible at all times.

I'm in my 22nd year of retirement from there. Earlier this year there was a wildcat strike by officers around the state. It wasn't a Union-sanctioned strike. Hochul fired around 2,000 officers who refused to return to work after her claims that an agreement was met. Which of course it wasn't.

One of the reasons officers went out was forced multiple 24 hour shifts, which is unlawful unless an emergency situation is officially put in place. The reason given was staff shortages. They can't get anyone to take the C.O. test. The other was the HALT Act passed by the RAT controlled State Legislature, which ordered less segregation time for disruptors and rule breakers.

At first, Hochul said none of the 2,000 she fired could ever work for the government again. She had to rescind that when counties across the state refused to honor it. They are in need of trained C.O.'s and wanted to hire them. The state also didn't distinguish between officers on strike, and officers who had pre-approved vacations, sick leave, or personal leave during the strike, and she fired them too. Now the state is holding individual hearings on every officer they fired because they are desperate for staff. Can you say clusterf*ck?

Just found this article today after doing a search for "suicide watch New York State prison system". This deals with mentally ill inmates, which the prisons are full of. When I retired in 2003, they emptied out a whole building on one side of Mid-State Correctional Facility (the facility mentioned in the article), in order to put as many mentally ill inmates taking psych meds, on the same side as the infirmary they had to go to, to get them. Mid-State was once Marcy Psychiatric Center. It was one of the many psych facilities Mario Cuomo closed around the state.

When they closed those centers, of course they did it to take that money and use it on other crap. They claimed residents could get better care in the community, but we knew way back then, that that was a lie. Not long afterward, the old psych residents ended up in NY State's prison system. That's why Mario Cuomo ended up renovating so many closed psych centers, and turning them into medium-security prisons. Andrew Cuomo closed more psych centers when he became Governor, and between him and Kathy Hochul, they have closed dozens of prisons...5 last year, and she's closing more this year. Inmates who haven't completed their court-ordered sentences are being tossed out on the street, reminiscent of what they did with the mentally ill all those years before. It's a vicious cycle, and it's all about money, not safety, not security, not control, nor crime prevention, or protecting the public, which is what prisons do.

Here's the article about a Federal Judge's decision that mentally ill inmates in segregation must have more out of cell time:

New York Judge Orders Change for Mentally Ill Prisoners

Apparently suicides are up in NY State special housing units.

Cuomo and Hochul certainly exacerbated the mental health problem when they closed all those prisons, threw inmates onto the street, many likely mentally ill, shuffled prison staff around the state, with senior officers either being given the option to retire if they had the required time, or having to move clear across the state if they wanted to continue their career until it was possible for them to retire. Those senior staff members then bumped others at the prisons they were sent to, and those people on the bottom of the ladder were likely laid off or just plain fired.

The story is much the same in Michigan. Since 2001, the MDOC has gone from 41 facilities to 26. The changes to the psychiatric care in prisons has not been good. In the mid 2000’s one of our maximum security blocks was changed to inpatient psychiatric. Although not officially, another of our max security blocks was effectively turned into a step-down unit for the psych block. Inpatient prisoners were sent to the max security block when they got “better”. That was a revolving door. Many of those prisoners were sent back to the psych unit fairly quickly after they became assaultive or self injurious. On a couple of occasions I had to drag attempted suicides out of their cells covered in their blood. The general response to dealing with the more unmanageable psych prisoners was keep them so pumped full of drugs they were zombies. I got out in 2019 after 25 years. I miss the staff. But not the job.😉

"I miss the staff. But not the job.😉"

Ditto here. I'm still friends with a woman I met when I first started the job at Auburn prison. She'd been there not quite a year before me. She's about 10 years younger than me, and retired as a Lieutenant. At Auburn, I was one female in a group of 11, ten being men who were sent to the prison in the aftermath of the State-wide strike in 1979. Hiring more staff was part of the contract negotiations after the strike ended. We'd all taken the Civil Service test for C.O. a few years prior. They called us up in the early part of September 1980, and asked if we'd be willing to go to a facility first, and go to the academy later. I took the chance, and even had the choice of prisons I could go to. I chose Auburn because it was only a couple of hours from where I was then living. Moved myself and my two sons there not long after. We had one week's training up front...paperwork, report righting, rules and regs, blah, blah, blah. Then we had a week on the job training with another officer. That's when I met Carol. That next week we got tossed to the dogs. We were on our own...being paid trainee wages for 6 months. We finally got to go to the academy 10 months later. That's where we received our weapons training which we had to qualify for, in order to pass the academy, get our badges and become Peace Officers. I stayed at Auburn until December 1980 when Mid-State was getting ready to open. Our first inmates came in February. Our box wasn't even finished so for disciplinary, we had to lock inmates in empty classrooms and have a 24 hour a day guard outside. We didn't even have an actual visiting room, but of course inmates were entitled to visits on the weekend. There weren't even vending machines back then. We used to have to go around and ask the visitors if they wanted to order food from a local pizza place. A couple of officers would take the orders, and money, call in the order, go pick it up, and distribute it all to the visitors. What a joke that was.

I meet my old friend Carol and her husband every other month at the casino near me for lunch. They're currently on a bus tour of Ireland. They've been all over the world God bless them, Australia, Macho Picchu, even Easter Island, and the Galapagos Islands. Three sons and 6 grandchildren that keep them busy.

I rarely see anyone I worked with anymore. This past June, my closet friend Joann of 40+ years passed. I went to her service and her kids had a nice reception afterward. I was sitting at the table with her husband, her husband's twin sister, and some other family friends, when I see this big guy make his way to me. I recognized him right away. I first met Scott when he was in high school, and hung around with my friend's son Paul. Scott later became a Correctional Officer, and then a Sergeant like me at Mid-State, and retired from there. I hadn't seen him since I retired. I was shocked to see him. He made a bee-line for me, hugged me and kissed me on the cheek. It was such a nice surprise. My friend's son Paul told me afterward that when Scott entered the building, he grabbed him and said "Is she(meaning me) here??? I have to see her first. I'm not doing anything else until I see her." It made me feel so good to know that after all those years, someone I had worked with, thought that much of me to seek me out. I always tried to be an Officer's Sergeant, never forgetting that blue shirt I first wore, and backed the officers up each and every time, because the prison administrators sure as hell weren't going to. Not patting myself on the back, but I had male officers on the afternoon shift, on which I was the senior Sergeant, tell me that they would rather work with me than any of the male Sergeants, because I always backed them up, and the male Sergeants regularly second-guessed and overturned those officer's orders.

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