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| Union rips DOC in officer beating |
| By Boston Herald |
| Published: 04/12/2004 |
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The union for Massachusetts correction officers is blasting DOC management after an officer, it says, was left alone in a block inside MCI-Cedar Junction in Walpole was severely beaten with his own radio by an inmate. "In this example, if the officer had a partner, one would have been able to radio for help," said Steve Kenneway, president of the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union, declining to identify the officer and inmate. "He is completely bruised from shoulders up - his neck, head, face." The state Department of Correction denied last week that a second officer had been taken off the block during recreational time when 75 inmates were let out of their cells. "The facts did reveal that a second officer was on post," said DOC spokesman Justin Latini. Latini said the second officer made a heroic attempt to rescue his partner, but refused to elaborate. Kenneway, however, said the officer who took a beating on March 29 not only had been left alone, but three other inmates barred other officers from helping once they were able to unlock the unit. The argument started, according to Kenneway, when the officer refused the inmate's request to use the phone. Meanwhile, drug-sniffing dogs swept through MCI-Concord last week following two recent heroin overdoses, including one that killed an inmate. The first and fatal overdose took place three weeks ago, according to Kenneway. The second prisoner survived a heroin overdose last Saturday. State Correction Commissioner Kathleen Dennehy ordered the drug sweep of the prison yesterday but Latini said he did not know if drugs were recovered. Kenneway said the overdoses could have been prevented if the prison was inspected after a small cache of heroin was found before the first overdose. MCI-Concord has come under intense scrutiny by a panel investigating the murder there of convicted pedophile priest John J. Geoghan. He was killed by an inmate at the Sousa-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley after being transferred. |
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