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Guards find marijuana in South Texas county jail - sexual activity, guards and female inmates
The Dallas Morning News ^ | December 15, 2002 | Associated Press Staff

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

Associated Press

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.


Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/tsw/stories/121502dntexjailprobe.78311.html


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: brownsville; countyjail; marijuana; texas

1 posted on 12/15/2002 3:06:06 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
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To: MeeknMing

2 posted on 12/15/2002 3:22:38 AM PST by chance33_98
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To: chance33_98
Next thing you know there'll be a calender...
Miss July in a prison stripe thong bikini.
They'll have to be real narrow stripes...
3 posted on 12/15/2002 3:40:39 AM PST by philman_36
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To: MeeknMing
Oh yeah, winning in the WOD!
4 posted on 12/15/2002 3:41:58 AM PST by philman_36
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To: MeeknMing
Smokers need not apply...
News from the Gulags
The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You
In the Oct. 28, 1995, San Antonio Express an article entitled "Prison Smoking Ban Ignites Busy Tobacco Black Market" by an anonymous AP reporter explained the various ways in which tobacco was smuggled into Texas prisons. He forgot to mention that the ban has created a flourishing tobacco trade for guards.

That ain't all they're trading.

5 posted on 12/15/2002 3:49:03 AM PST by philman_36
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To: MeeknMing
Um, yeah, D-block seems about right

6 posted on 12/15/2002 3:50:37 AM PST by dennisw
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To: MeeknMing
Caged Heat 3000

http://www.prisonflicks.com/caged1.htm
7 posted on 12/15/2002 4:01:26 AM PST by dennisw
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To: MeeknMing
Since when are sex and drugs in jail news ???
8 posted on 12/15/2002 4:54:48 AM PST by genefromjersey
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To: steve50
Woder why a Dallas paper runs this story after totally ignoring the Dallas Drywall Cartel. Looks like a ggod portion of the drugs sold in Texas comes out of evidence storage.
9 posted on 12/15/2002 6:01:55 AM PST by steve50
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To: philman_36


10 posted on 12/15/2002 6:07:00 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
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To: chance33_98; philman_36
LOL ! Yeah, calendar's a good idea.....
11 posted on 12/15/2002 6:08:30 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
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To: MeeknMing
Sheriff's Department investigate allegations of sexual activity between guards and female inmates at the jail.

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.

12 posted on 12/15/2002 6:27:51 AM PST by Pilsner
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To: MeeknMing
The idea of warehousing millons of criminals is wrong. The violent ones just need to be executed, as quickly as possible. The non-violent ones need a combination of a sentence of community service/restitution plus very tightly supervised probation with considerable restrictions.
13 posted on 12/15/2002 6:53:40 AM PST by Stefan Stackhouse
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To: chance33_98
Is this what the best dressed prisoners will be wearing next year? Nice threads, colorful too.


14 posted on 12/15/2002 8:36:24 AM PST by unixfox
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To: steve50
a good portion of the drugs sold in Texas comes out of evidence storage.

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?

15 posted on 12/15/2002 9:03:24 AM PST by Mike4Freedom
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To: Mike4Freedom
Mike4, You miss the point. Drug users are evil.
Drug users are lawbreakers.
Because they are evil lawbreakers they must be punished. It doesn't matter how much the WOD costs. It doesn't matter how much the WOD warps the Constitution (10th amendment disappearing.) None of that matters. What matters is that those evil, drug using, criminals be punished. They should be KILLED. SMITTEN! AND ALL THEIR FAMILY! AND RELATIVES! ALL THEIR EVIL WHITE TRASH TRAILER LIVING IN SIN KIN (AND THOSE EVIL GHETTO BLACKS TOO) MUST DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!!

Get it?

And please ignore John 8:7

16 posted on 12/15/2002 9:19:23 AM PST by dark_lord
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To: Mike4Freedom
"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?"

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.

17 posted on 12/15/2002 9:24:09 AM PST by Bob Mc
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To: philman_36
Hey, there are winners and losers. Some are winning in the war on drugs. Just not the people who think that they are winning.
18 posted on 12/15/2002 9:28:15 AM PST by FreePaul
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To: Bob Mc
I disagree with the argument. It is perfectly possible and not even all that difficult to eliminate illegal drugs from prison. The only reason we haven't done it is people don't care very much what goes on behind prison walls.

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.

19 posted on 12/15/2002 5:04:06 PM PST by VeritatisSplendor
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