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| Chief: One-guard transports risky |
| By Salt Lake Tribune |
| Published: 07/19/2007 |
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SALT LAKE CITY - Corrections chief Tom Patterson told legislators Wednesday the department put officers at risk with a policy that left them alone to transport high-risk inmates. "It appears that having one-on-one transports may have been a bit risky," Patterson told members of the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee. Patterson's attendance before the committee came in wake of the June 25 slaying of Corrections Officer Stephen Anderson, who was shot allegedly by a prisoner he escorted alone to University Hospital for an MRI. The prisoner, white supremacist Curtis Allgier, who has been charged with capital murder, was considered a high-risk inmate, and should have been wearing a Kevlar bullet-resistant vest, Patterson said. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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