Posted on 12/15/2002 3:06:06 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
Guards find marijuana in South Texas county jail
Cameron sheriff considers changing staff at detention center
12/15/2002
BROWNSVILLE - Two marijuana cigarettes were discovered at the Carrizales-Rucker Detention Center in Olmito, prompting the Cameron County sheriff to consider staffing changes at the troubled jail system.
Sheriff Conrado Cantu said Friday that the drugs were found Thursday by two guards during a routine search at the maximum-security facility.
Sheriff Cantu said he will release a statement Monday about possible staffing changes.
"We are just trying as hard as we can to clean up that jail," he told The Brownsville Herald. "I want to have a great jail, and maybe it is going to take for me to bring someone from the outside with a lot of experience who can address all these needs and problems."
It is the second time in two months that drugs have been found inside Carrizales-Rucker. A guard was charged Oct. 17 with smuggling marijuana to inmates after he admitted to the crime.
The latest incident comes as the Brownsville Police Department investigates thousand of dollars missing from inmate accounts at the facility, and as the Cameron County district attorney's office and the Sheriff's Department investigate allegations of sexual activity between guards and female inmates at the jail.
Eighteen federal female inmates were removed from the facility last week, and two were removed Dec. 6.
Officials close to the investigation told the newspaper that additional allegations of sexual misconduct at the detention center surfaced Friday as jail officials removed all federal female inmates from the facility.
U.S. Marshals Service officials said Friday that the facility's 42 federal female inmates had been taken from the Cameron County jail system indefinitely while Cameron County officials investigate.
"We have certain obligations to ensure the safety of our inmates as well as maintain the integrity of any potential investigations in this matter, and we simply are acting in an abundance of caution to ensure all obligations are met," Deputy U.S. Marshal Eric Wallenius said.
The inmates were transferred to several South Texas jails, including the Los Fresnos City Jail and the Zapata County Jail.
That ain't all they're trading.
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Um, yeah, D-block seems about right |
That is a felony in Texas -- for the guards. Some of these guys may be staying in the same workplace, but going off the payroll : )
God knows we need prison guards, but I always remember the words of G. Gordon Liddy, who says that prison guards are folks who spend 1/2 of their waking hours behind bars voluntarily.
You don't understand, it's called recycling. It is environmentally friendly.
Actually the fact that drugs are available in prisons is all the evidence one needs to conclude that the War on Drugs has absolutely no chance of ever removing drugs from our society. If the total control of prison doesn't work, what level of police state must be established to keep it out of the whole society?
Get it?
And please ignore John 8:7
Obviously the question contains its own answer. You could put half the population in prison, and the other half as prison gaurds, and the problem would only get worse.
It is impossible. People are destined to be free. Smoking a little wacky weed is stupid, but it represents freedom. It represents that you own yourself. It is no different than when teenagers smoke cigarettes to be defiant to their parents.
We don't need nanny state parents.
Of course, the conclusion that illegal drugs can't be eliminated from the society as a whole is still correct, even though the premise (that you can't eliminate them from prisons) is wrong.
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