Posted on 06/14/2015 7:43:07 PM PDT by blueyon
"You REALLY need to see what happens in the BACKGROUND as Fox News reports from outside a prison" (video)
This video is making the rounds on Facebook for good reason. A sharp-eyed Fox News viewer caught some elicit goings-ons in the background as a reporter recorded from outside the upstate New York prison where two murderous inmates escaped.
And that… is how you sneak in drugs, phones and other illegal stuff into a maximum state prison! Now do you think that’s possible without a guard helping out? Especially in the same prison where a guard is accused of helping two murderous and dangerous inmates escape? Oh yeah, I feel safe, don’t you?
That is hilarious!
So true. Most people wouldn’t know that Dannemora/Clinton had a reputation for being a tough prison. I worked with a lot of officers from Clinton, who transferred in after being promoted to Sergeant or Lieutenant. They had a reputation for taking care of business. Anybody who came from Clinton were called “frozen brains” because of the prison’s being so far north. Most max prisons are very cliquey, with generations of family members working them. Great Meadow and Elmira prisons were also known as tough places to work. I retired in 2003, so have no idea what the reputations of these prisons are now. The system changed so much over the 25 years I worked in it, and I don’t see any of the people I used to work with to know what’s going on.
This phrase should illicit some laughs.
Built in 1844, impossibly this is named the Clinton Correctional Facility!
What difference does it make at this time ANYHOW???
#CultureOfCorruption
In Colorado, officers have to go through the metal detectors and have anything they bring in inspected. Never,ever,ever, EVER do you bring something from outside into the facility over the wall. Anything going into the tower gets delivered from INSIDE the prison. That little piece of video would get you fired here.
Any clues? Although it sure sounds like this Clinton break they needed help from the inside what with power tools and all.
I was telling my wife I couldn't last in prison. Too noisy! I've done a couple of jobs in and near prisons and there were always guys yelling - most of it just crazy yelling. And loud!
Had one job about 300 yards from the walls of Rikers Island years ago. Was there for a week. Every day, all day, was the same guy yelling. At that distance it was still loud and annoying! Couldn't make out a thing he was yelling - if it was intelligible in the first place.
I don’t have experience working in a prison, but what you say makes more sense than, “Uh, that’s my ... lunch! Yeah,that’s the ticket ... .”
It’s no wonder there’s so much contraband in prisons if this is SOP. Anything coming in (especially) or going out should be inspected. Or at least elicited.
New Yorkers are so much smarter than us bitter clingers.
Regarding the escape, the two inmates supposedly escaped through the steam tunnels that run below the prison. 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. Haven't heard how they got into the power house though. They must have broken in some way. They may have picked up the power tools there. The tunnels are regularly inspected for problems. It's obvious the tunnels run outside the walls, and there were probably chained and padlocked metal gates closing those areas off, but they more than likely broke through them with the power tools. There's manholes inside the prisons, but they are bolted down with heavy bars and padlocks. The ones outside the walls where they escaped from apparently weren't. Somebody provided them with the info on how to get to those tunnels since neither inmate worked in the power house. Or it's possible they may have worked there at one point, and knew the inside of the building. It's also possible that another inmate who worked there filled them in on the details.
I'd assumed on another thread about a week ago, that they had done several dry runs getting out of their cells before the big break. That was confirmed in one of the articles somebody posted today. What they did isn't something you do the first time. Practice makes perfect. Their being in honor housing probably meant that their cells weren't searched very often, if ever. I'm not sure exactly where the honor housing cells were located at Clinton, but in Auburn, they were the top two tiers in C-Block.
Yeah, prisons are noisy, and the max facilities are like echo chambers. Same with the messhall. You got used to it though. Back when I started at Auburn, they were still using metal trays in the messhalls. Every so often, during the meal, a stack of them would fall over and crash onto the cement floor. It reverberated through the hall, but you'd be so used to the sound level in the place, that you didn't flinch when it happened.
>>>The officer working the tower lowers the bucket, and his lunch is put it in. Pull it back up, and you’ve got your lunch.<<<
...and that’s why they call it a lunch bookay—ugh, I mean BUCKET.
Tell that to the courts who have restricted the searches on people visiting convicts, as well as the inmates, and their living areas as well. You get searched more thoroughly by TSA before boarding a plane.
You would be absolutely amazed at what and how people attempt to smuggle contraband into a facility. Unfortunately, if you get a staff member to compromise themselves you could smuggle a Mack truck in, piece by piece. A Correctional Officer position usually doesn’t pay terribly well, or have a lot of respect, so it’s difficult getting honorable people to apply. When you do, they get discouraged at the idiocy of the bureaucracy involved. Females in a male facility are also subject the the pheremonal “love at fist sight” chemical attraction. You also have some people that suffer from the “short dick syndrome” where that badge takes over their common sense. A correctional environment is something that most “normal” people simply can’t understand.
I actually never saw the movie lol. I was thinking of a news story I heard awhile back of a drug boss escaping from prison using that method.
Well, one must keep up appearances.
Good reference, but not enough corpses.
From people on the outside?
You're joking right?
‘_________so much smarter_________’
There are many thousands of New York transplants.
Assume you mean the native New Yorker - - -
The tower IS outside the prison. If the tower was in the prison, it would be tough to see the wall.
That explains why the Gov of VT seemed so oddly thankful to Gov of NY at the presser I watched a few days ago. It was very strange, but now it makes sense.
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