Nurse’s prison dream man turns into worst nightmare

Boston Herald ^ | April 20, 2006 | Laurel J. Sweet

[ConservativeStatement]

Just like the 1938 melodrama “Prison Nurse,” passions boiled over behind bars for real-life slammer medic Sandra Rosa when she became fevered for a caddish con she met inside the Middleton jail.

But Rosa’s romance did not have a happy ending. By the time the 25-year-old LPN unchained her heart from Felix “Flex” Melendez - a violent felon she bailed out so they could be together - Rosa had lost her job and been bloodied and robbed by her dream man.

“No comment,” Rosa said yesterday outside her home in Lowell, her lip no longer swollen from where Melendez’ fist landed two weeks ago after he allegedly picked her pockets of $1,300 during a makeout session in her brother’s borrowed Cadillac.

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More potential candidates removed as MENSA possibilities.

[NormsRevenge]

Physician Prison Nurse , Heal thyself

[singfreedom]

Bad beginnings only lead to bad endings!

[martin_fierro]

Melendez fled on foot, only to be captured a short time later by police in Lawrence and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. After pleading not guilty in Lowell District Court, he was held on $1,000 cash bail at the Cambridge jail.
Melendez has since been sprung from that lockup - this time, by a woman from Lawrence.

Unnngh.

[BostonianRightist]

...Canoodled in the can...
...fevered for a caddish con...
...unchained her heart...

This is probably the worst newpaper writer I've read in a while.

[RandallFlagg]

Oh, MAN!!

UNNNGH is RIGHT! SHEESH!

[Northeastern_Realist]

Truly shocking that the woman was from Lawrence.

[Paulus]

I like it. It is kitschy.

[gr8eman]

The language is appropriate for the topic. Jay Leno's joke writers will have a field day with this.

[isom35]

dont people learn anything from watching Oz?

[Bob]

after he allegedly picked her pockets of $1,300

Prison nursing must pay pretty well if he was able to pickpocket $1300 from her. I don't think that very many people would commonly be carrying that much cash on them. I certainly don't.

[Texas Mom]

She may have just cashed her check but that was her second mistake. The first was to get involved with an inmate although this is not the first time or will it be the last.

These nurses come to work in the prisons and think they can relate to inmates the same as if it was a regular civilian hospital.

[Mila]

"After pleading not guilty in Lowell District Court, he was held on $1,000 cash bail at the Cambridge jail.
Melendez has since been sprung from that lockup - this time, by a woman from Lawrence."

Good grief! What is the attraction to this man, or are can there be that many women out there that will settle for just about any guy if he uses the right line on them? Sad.

[bkepley]

"Sad"

That's what I was thinking.

[tkathy]

There are a lot of women out there who go for convicts. The same type as those who will join islam.

[mass55th]

I'm an older female who worked in uniform for 23 years in New York State's prison system and saw a few of these dummies get involved with the inmates. It's pretty pathetic, especially in light of the fact that many of the convicts were diddling with the homos in the prison at the same time they were diddling with the employee.

On numerous occasions, we'd have wives and girlfriends of inmates show up at the same time to visit the con and the fur would fly. One of my fellow Sergeants got caught in the middle of a cat fight, trying to separate the two women. There were even times when the inmate would choose to visit with the girlfriend and leave his wife sitting in the waiting room. What these women don't realize is that inmates are con artists. They are usually writing and calling multiple women and having them visit them, send them money or packages. It's a racket.

Once during my 13 years as a supervisor, I had to talk to a female officer whose behavior was less than stellar. I had gotten a tip from a con that a certain inmate had a new girlfriend and the snitch pointed to a new rookie female officer. I shrugged it off initially as simply inmate rumor, but when I saw the two of them laughing and giggling one morning behind the chow line, I recalled what the snitch had told me and called the officer in to speak with her.

She denied everything, but as it turns out, she was guilty. I had the inmate's cubicle searched and besides items he'd stolen from the kitchen, I found a short letter, unsigned, that obviously came from a female. The letter was frilly, full of affectionate comments, calling the inmate her "guardian angel." I knew that this officer had been working in the school building for a while and took the letter to compare the writing. I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, but when I checked the logbook for her script, my stomach lurched as I discovered the writing matched. I made copies of her log entries and turned the letter and the copies over to the Lieutenant.

From what I understand, they called her in, asked her outright and she denied it. What burned her was that she was sending packages in to the inmate in the name and from the address of the people she was living with at the time she was working at the prison. She was a widow with two or three children, and obviously needed a decent paying job to support her family. She was a stupid woman who made a stupid mistake and it cost her a well-paying job. Unfortunately there are alot of dummies like her out there.

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Is she a hottie? Where were those kinds of guards when I was in . . . nevermind, wrong kind of thread.

[DustyMoment]

Apparently, this brain-child didn't connect the dots - he was BEHIND BARS FOR A REASON!!!!!!!

[BraveMan]

I do believe this is the first time I've actually read the phrase "lip lock" in print. O'lee wah!

[speed_addiction]

There are a lot of women out there who go for convicts.

You have no idea how true this is. When I was locked up, I took out an ad on a prison pen pal site and immedeately flooded with letters. I am not talking about women that were unattractive or had nothing to offer. There were a few like that in there, but mostly they were older, professional women who really should not have had a problem finding a man. Yet they wrote me. They wanted to MARRY me.

Luckily for them, I only wanted mail. I was not hurting for money or anything like that. But even after I got out. I got on a regular internet site and I was honest in my profile. I had the fact that I was a recently released felon on my profile along with current pictures with obvious prison muscles and tattoos. I was having to beat women off with a stick.

What draws women to men like this I do not know. I have since settled down with a woman I love very much, but for a while it was like shooting fish in a barrel to get laid. I hated every minute of it.


What We Are About To Do Here Is What The Good Lord Would Call A Cleansing of the Wicked. I Call It A Good Old Fashioned Texas Ass Kicking.