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| Officers lose pay in death of inmate |
| By Philadelphia Inquirer |
| Published: 02/23/2004 |
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Two corrections officers on duty the night mentally ill inmate Joel Seidel was beaten to death in the Camden County (N.J) jail were suspended without pay last week. Warden Eric Taylor said he would serve the pair with charges within five days, when county officials plan to lodge separate complaints against two other officers on duty the same night. Stuart Alterman, a Cherry Hill lawyer who represented Sgt. Dorothy Williams and Officer James Foster at a hearing last Tuesday, said the suspension without pay had been expected. Both had been suspended with pay last week. Alterman said he anticipated that the officers would be hit with "a shotgun of charges" alleging neglect of duty. He said he would appeal. Officials have said officers on the mental-health unit at the Camden County Correctional Facility did not check on the cell holding Seidel and Marvin Lister every 15 minutes, as required, and allowed 53 minutes to lapse before Seidel was found pummeled to death. Lister, a criminally insane inmate who was awaiting trial on charges of raping a male patient at Ancora State Hospital, has been charged with killing Seidel Jan. 27 after Foster placed them in a cell with a third inmate. Seidel, 65, had been arrested Dec. 30 in Cherry Hill for violating an order barring contact with his ex-wife and teenage daughter |
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