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To: Anti-Bubba182

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Abuse Charges Bring Anguish in Unit's Home

Specialist Graner, who wears a Marine Corps eagle tattoo on his right arm, served in the corps from April 1988 until May 1996, when he left with the rank of corporal, according to military records. He went to work immediately at the State Correctional Institution Greene, in southwestern Pennsylvania, where he has held an entry-level corrections officer position ever since.

Two years after he arrived at Greene, the prison was at the center of an abuse scandal. Prison officials declined to say whether Specialist Graner had been disciplined in that case, citing privacy laws.

Inmates and advocates for prisoner rights asserted in 1998 that guards at the prison routinely beat and humiliated prisoners, including through a sadistic game of Simon Says in which guards struck prisoners who failed to comply with barked instructions.

After an investigation, the warden was transferred, two lieutenants were fired and about two dozen guards were reprimanded, demoted or suspended.

Specialist Graner was involved in a bitter divorce. In court papers, his wife, Staci, accused him of beating her, threatening her with guns, stalking her after they separated in 1997 and breaking into her home. Since 1997, local judges have issued at least three orders of protection against him, records show.

One court document filed in February 1998 typified Staci Graner's complaints. "Charles picked me up and threw me against the wall," she said. She added that he had begun sneaking into her home at night to scare her. "I just don't think this is normal behavior, and he does frighten me," she wrote.

2 posted on 05/07/2004 11:09:11 PM PDT by gubamyster

Guy sounds like a winner.
...of the bully of the week award.
People like him are the LAST type of person you should have handling POWs or even regular inmates.

This is the type of thing you get when there is poor supervision and less than through vetting of security personnel.

3 posted on 05/07/2004 11:13:47 PM PDT by cavtrooper21 (Hooah??? HOOOAAHHHH!!!!!)

Cute! This one did not belong where he was.

4 posted on 05/07/2004 11:15:14 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182

5 posted on 05/07/2004 11:15:30 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)

Oh,boy,check out the boyfriend.#2

6 posted on 05/07/2004 11:17:07 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)

To: Howlin; A Citizen Reporter; Zack Attack; Peach

Check out the "boyfriend" of our leash holder.

9 posted on 05/07/2004 11:22:21 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)

To: Barlowmaker; Fledermaus; nopardons

WOW..The "boyfriend" has a history

32 posted on 05/08/2004 12:19:55 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)

Check out post #2..Very interesting history of the boyfriend of one girl.

35 posted on 05/08/2004 12:41:03 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)

I work in corrections and it's assclowns like this that make doing my job that much harder. where I work we call them "cowboys" and they don't seem to be happy unless they're # 1 in caps on the inspectors S@$T list. You always know when they're on vacation, the block mellows out for a week or so. If every single one of them quit tomorrow, i'd smile all the way to retirement.

38 posted on 05/08/2004 4:51:12 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (experience: that one thing you don't get until just after you needed it.)

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